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Patent GB-2578178-A (GB)
Title: A marine outboard motor
Inventor: JAMES BARRATT
IPC: F01M11/03
Filed: 2019-03-07
Abstract: A marine outboard motor, comprising a drive shaft 27, and a drive transmission (such as bevel gears 35, 37, 39 figure 3) configured to transmit the drive force from the drive shaft to the propeller shaft (29, figure 3), and a lubrication system configured to convey lubricant along a lubricant flow path to lubricate one or both of the drive transmission and the drive shaft, and a lubricant filter 83, such as a centrifugal lubricant filter, configured to be driven by the drive shaft. Preferably the drive shaft also drives a water pump 49 by connection to a water pump drive shaft 71. In some embodiments the lubricant filter is driven by a drive mechanism.
Patent GB-2582320-A (GB)
Title: Shaft component for a surgical instrument
Inventor: RICHARD HOODLESS
IPC: A61C1/18
Filed: 2019-03-19
Abstract: A shaft component 52 for a surgical instrument, component 52 comprising: first and second ends 58&56 that are respectively distal and proximal to an end effector 424 of the surgical instrument; and a tubular body between first and second ends 58&56 that permit’s torsional elastic deformation of the tubular body about a longitudinal axis of the surgical instrument under a loading torque, the end effector being elastically rotatable with respect to the first end 58. Preferably the tubular body comprises two axially arranged sections with an arm 524 extending axially between them enabling torsional elastic deformation of the tubular body about the surgical instrument’s longitudinal axis under the loading torque. Arm 524 may be formed between two slots 522&524, where each slot 522&524 may comprise first & second portions, the first portion being orthogonal to surgical instrument’s longitudinal axis and the second portion being parallel to the surgical instrument’s longitudinal axis, the two slots 522&524 being interdigitated. Also a surgical instrument comprising a shaft component 52. Described application in instruments with an inner blade 54 rotating in a tube 42, where torsional elastic deformation of component 52 reduces impact damage caused by debris trapped between blade & tube 54&42.
Patent GB-2586442-A (GB)
Title: A method and system for encoding and decoding to enable adaptive delivery of mulsemedia streams
Inventor: GABRIEL-MIRO MUNTEAN
IPC: H04N21/8543
Filed: 2019-06-26
Abstract: A Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) based Adaptive Rich media Delivery solution (DASH-ARM) for adaptive delivery of mulsemedia (multi sensorial media) content. This is provided by a multi-sensory media presentation description (Mulse-MPD) file for streaming a media file containing at least some of haptic/olfactory/gustatory or other non-audio-visual human sensory data, where the Mulse-MPD file contains: a plurality of period data structures/segments 10-2 each comprising: a start time of the period in relation to the beginning of the mulsemedia stream; a plurality of mulse adaptation data structures/segments 10-3 defined to contain: a type of multi-sensory effect; a base URL; a plurality of representation segments 10-4, each containing: an intensity of the multi-sensory effect; an offset time in relation to the start time of the period data structure/segment; and a relative URL in relation to the base URL, which specifies the location of the multi-sensory content to be streamed. This Mulse-MPD is delivered to a client in response to an HTTP request and allows adaptive streaming of the referenced multi sensory media content.
Patent GB-2585049-A (GB)
Title: A prosthetic implant
Inventor: Pierre Schembri Wismayer
IPC: A61F2/34
Filed: 2019-06-26
Abstract: A prosthetic implant with three cups, such as for hip replacement, comprises components 10,20,30,40 with inter-engageable inner and outer surfaces formed with a partial cylindrical shape 11,21,31,41,14,24,34 and comprising a flat surface normal to their axis of rotation and which are engageable with one another such that second component is rotatable relative to the first component about a first axis only, the third component is rotatable relative to the second component only about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and the fourth component is rotatable relative to the third component only about a third axis perpendicular to the first axis and second axis. The components may be assembled together by engaging the outer and inner surfaces of adjacent cups and rotating them through 180 degrees relative to each other. The components may be formed of alternating metallic and polymeric materials such as ultra high molecular weight polyethylene.
Patent GB-2576625-A (GB)
Title: A display system
Inventor: STEPHEN MUIR
IPC: H01R13/74
Filed: 2019-07-17
Abstract: A display system has a framework having at least one hollow upright 12 with apertures 14 spaced along its length. A power supply insert has a first profile (18, Fig 2) with a recess, a second profile (20, Fig 2) and at least one connector (24, Fig 2) to hold the first profile and the second profile at a set distance apart. The connector may be a dog-bone shape. Alternatively the two profiles may be integral (Fig 7). The power supply insert has at least one conductive track (34, Fig 2) and is arranged within the at least one hollow upright. A T-shaped power connector 40 has a top cross-bar 42 and a lower body part 44 extending substantially perpendicular thereto. The ends of the cross-bar are provided with respective magnets 46 and the body part comprises axially extending electrically conductive pins 48. The T-shaped power connector is placed through an aperture of the upright so its pins contact the conductive track. The power connector may have a slot (145, Fig 9) such that it goes through a pair of apertures (114A, 114B, Fig 8).
Patent GB-2592554-A (GB)
Title: Chain conveyor and link for same
Inventor: Aaron Philip Walker
IPC: F16G13/00
Filed: 2018-03-06
Abstract: A link for a conveyor chain includes a first portion and a second portion laterally spaced apart from the first portion. The first portion includes a first sprocket-engaging pin, and the second portion includes a second sprocket-engaging pin. The first sprocket-engaging pin and the second sprocket-engaging pin protrude laterally away from one another. The first sprocket-engaging pin and the second sprocket-engaging pin may each have an oblong cross-section. At least one retainer can secure a connecting pin against movement relative to at least one of the first portion and the second portion, and each retainer can be positioned substantially within one of the first portion and the second portion.
Patent GB-2584513-A (GB)
Title: Conjugate suppression
Inventor: Ian Bledowski
IPC: G03H1/26
Filed: 2019-12-18
Abstract: A holographic projector comprises: a first and second arrays of light-modulating pixels to display respective first and second holograms; first and second light sources to illuminate the first and second arrays such that a first holographic reconstruction corresponding to the first hologram is formed on a replay plane and a second holographic reconstruction corresponding to the second hologram is formed on the replay plane. The first holographic reconstruction comprises a first zero-order replay field 1110A and the second holographic reconstruction comprises a second zero-order replay field 1110B. The holographic projector is arranged such that: the first zero-order replay field and second zero-order replay field are no more than partially overlapping (e.g. via displacement Y2) e.g. replay fields may be adjacent (Figure 7); real image content (1012A, Figure 10) of the first holographic reconstruction is restricted to a first sub-area (712A, Figures 7-10) of the first zero-order replay field and real image content (1012B, Figure 10) of the second holographic reconstruction is restricted to a first sub-area (712B, Figures 7-10) of the second zero-order replay field; and the first sub-area of the first zero-order replay field and the first sub-area of the second zero-order replay field form a continuous display area of the holographic projector.
Patent GB-2578047-A (GB)
Title: Methods, apparatus and systems for audio playback
Inventor: JOHN PAUL LESSO
IPC: G06F21/32
Filed: 2018-07-06
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, apparatus and systems for audio playback via a personal audio device following a biometric process. A personal audio device may be used to obtain ear model data for authenticating a user via an ear biometric authentication system. Owing to that successful authentication, the electronic device is informed of the person who is listening to audio playback from the device. Thus the device can implement one or more playback settings which are specific to that authorised user.
Patent GB-2592346-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum pump and vacuum pump set for evacuating a semiconductor processing chamber
Inventor: NIGEL PAUL SCHOFIELD
IPC: F04D19/04
Filed: 2020-01-09
Abstract: A vacuum pump, a set of vacuum pumps and method for evacuating a semiconductor processing chamber is disclosed. The pump is configured for mounting to a semiconductor processing chamber to evacuate it to between 1 mbar and 5 X10-2 mbar. The pump comprises: a rotor having a plurality of angled blades 30 arranged along a helical path from an inlet 16 to an outlet 18, mounted within a stator having a plurality of perforated elements 50-53 intersecting the helical path. The perforations 38 allow molecules to travel along the helical path. The rotor is mounted on a magnetically levitated bearing. The perforated elements located towards an inlet of the pump comprise a transparency of more than 40% and the perforated elements located towards an outlet comprise a transparency of more than 30%. The set comprises the described pump, a roots blower and a primary vacuum pump. The method comprises attaching the described pump to a processing chamber by a conduit of less than 2m and remotely locating the other pumps.
Patent GB-2597251-A (GB)
Title: Lightweight ammunition belt link
Inventor: JOSHUA MATTHEW STUBBS
IPC: F42B39/08
Filed: 2020-07-16
Abstract: A wire ammunition belt link 100 comprises a sprung wire 101. The sprung wire 101 is arranged to form a first receiving portion 102 suitable for retaining a first ammunition cartridge and a second receiving portion 103 suitable for retaining a second ammunition cartridge. A spacer 104 is provided between the first receiving and second receiving portions 102, 103.
Patent GB-2598707-A (GB)
Title: Quantum streaming
Inventor: Barry Childe
IPC: H04L65/40
Filed: 2020-07-20
Abstract: Quantum safe quantum streaming between a first endpoint device 106a and second endpoint device 106b via a server of a quantum cloud platform 102. At the first endpoint, a data item is split into a plurality of data shards, the data shards are encrypted using a first cryptographic key shared between the first and second endpoint, a first plurality of secure channels 110a are established with the server using a second cryptographic key shared between the first endpoint and the server and the encrypted shards are transmitted towards the second endpoint via the server over the secure channels. At the server, encrypted data shards of a data item are received, the server securely stores the encrypted data shards in a quantum cloud platform secure storage, responding to the second endpoint logging onto the quantum cloud platform, a second plurality of secure channels 110b are established with the second endpoint using a third cryptographic key shared between the second endpoint and server. The encrypted data shards are retrieved from secure storage, transmitted over the second plurality of secure channels to the second endpoint device. The second endpoint decrypts the data shards using the first cryptographic key to reconstruct the data item.
Patent GB-2586540-A (GB)
Title: Method of determining number of taxis during coordinated monitoring by taxis and public transportation vehicles
Inventor: MICHAEL JUN XU
IPC: G01D21/02
Filed: 2019-01-31
Abstract: A method of determining the false negative rate of mobile monitoring and the requisite number of mobile monitoring vehicles, belonging to the technical field of environmental monitoring. The method comprises atmospheric pollutant monitoring devices and a control center. The atmospheric pollutant monitoring devices comprise atmospheric pollutant monitoring sensors, positioning modules and communication modules, and are installed on mobile monitoring vehicles and connected by means of wireless transmission to a control center. The invention utilizes public transport vehicles, long-distance vehicles, taxis, garbage trucks and other mobile monitoring vehicles upon which are mounted atmospheric pollutant monitoring sensors for performing real-time measurement, thus increasing monitoring objectivity and spatio-temporal coverage.
Patent GB-2598898-A (GB)
Title: Aerosol generation system
Inventor: LUKE WARREN
IPC: A24F40/465
Filed: 2020-09-14
Abstract: A non-combustible aerosol provision device comprises: a first heating element 210 at least partially defining a heating zone for receiving a portion of a consumable comprising aerosol-generating material; a second heating element 212 extending from an axial end of the first heating element 210 beyond the heating zone; and a thermal insulator 202. The thermal insulator 202 comprises: an inner wall 204; an outer wall 206; and an insulation region 208 bound by the inner wall 204 and the outer wall 206, wherein the insulation region 208 is evacuated to a lower pressure than an exterior of the insulation region 208. In one embodiment the thermal insulator 202 extends around at least part of the first heating element 210 and at least part of the second heating element 212, and in an alternative embodiment the inner wall 204 comprises at least a part of each of the first heating element 210 and the second heating element 212. An air gap 214 may be present between the inner wall 204 and the first and/or second heating elements 210, 212. The device may further comprise means for generating a varying magnetic field that penetrates the first and/or second heating elements 210, 212.
Patent GB-2600764-A (GB)
Title: Operating mechanism for opening and closing at least two contacts simultaneously
Inventor: ALBERT JOZEF PETER POSTMUS
IPC: H01H33/666
Filed: 2020-11-10
Abstract: An operating mechanism 20 for opening and closing two or more contacts 3 simultaneously. The mechanism comprises, a base frame (34, figure 3) a bridge body with an elongate contact surface 4 that extends in a length direction to contact the operating rods 2 of the contacts 3. Two reaction arms 22,25 extend substantially parallel to the length of the contact surface, each with one end 24,27 hinged to the base frame and the other end 23,26 hinged to the bridge body. The connection points of the reaction arms to the bridge body are displaced perpendicularly to the contact surface. A cam 13 is arranged on a shaft 14, parallel to a two-link hinged rod-mechanism 28,29. The two ends 31,32 of the rod-mechanism are connected to the bridging body and the base fame respectively. The cam is in contact with the hinging axis 30 of the two links 28,29. The hinging axis may include a cam follower 33. The bridge body may comprise sidewalls 5, a top wall 4, and a lock plate 21 together containing a contact spring 6 for each of the contacts. In use, the cam rotates, pushing the cam-follower and forcing the two-link hinged arm to extend, moving the bridge-body downward and closing the contacts. As the cam rotates further releasing the hinged arm, the contact springs return the contacts to the open position.
Patent GB-2594116-A (GB)
Title: Interface arrangement, computer system and method
Inventor: WALDEMAR FELDE
IPC: G06F1/3296
Filed: 2020-12-15
Abstract: The present invention relates to an interface arrangement (7), comprising a first interface (6, 6a, 6b) via which a first power supply can be provided, at least one second interface (12) via which at least one second power supply can be provided, and a control device (11). The first interface (6, 6a, 6b) is connected to the control device (11) via a connector of a first or a second type. The control device (11) is configured to detect whether the first interface (6, 6a, 6b) is connected to the control device (11) via the connector of the first type or of the second type. The control device (11) is further configured to limit the at least one second power supply provided at the at least one second interface (12) depending on the detected type of the connector. The invention further relates to a computer system (1) and a method for such an interface arrangement (7).
Patent GB-2605190-A (GB)
Title: Interactive audio rendering of a spatial stream
Inventor: MIKKO-VILLE LAITINEN
IPC: H04S7/00
Filed: 2021-03-26
Abstract: An apparatus for processing at least two audio signals and associated metadata, the apparatus comprising means configured to: obtain the at least two audio signals, the at least two audio signals comprising at least one audio object portion and at least one non-audio object portion; obtain the associated metadata, wherein the associated metadata is configured to define at least one audio object position and at least one audio object energy proportion; obtain object position control information; determine mixing information based on the object position control information and the at least one audio object position and at least one audio object energy proportion; and process the at least two audio signals based on the mixing information, wherein the processing is configured to enable the at least one object portion of a first of the at least two audio signals to be at least partially moved to a second of the at least two audio signals.
Patent GB-2591210-A (GB)
Title: Cognitive collation configuration for enhancing multilingual data governance and management
Inventor: SU LIU
IPC: G06N20/00
Filed: 2019-10-21
Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method for cognitive collation configuration processing of multilingual data. The method includes parsing a multilingual input text into a plurality of collation items. The method includes detecting a language of each collation item of the plurality of collation items. The method includes storing each collation item, of the plurality of collation items, into a corresponding sub language buffer of a plurality of sub language buffers. The method includes performing a first sort operation on the plurality of sub language buffers, in which the first sort operation includes sorting the plurality of sub language buffers based on a set of collation settings, in which the set of collation settings includes a language selection list. The method includes merging the content of the sorted plurality of sub language buffers to form a sorted output comprising the plurality of collation items.
Patent GB-2605463-A (GB)
Title: Selecting testing scenarios for evaluating the performance of autonomous vehicles
Inventor: CALIN BELTA
IPC: G06F11/36
Filed: 2021-05-13
Abstract: In an example method, a computer system receives first data representing a plurality of scenarios for estimating a performance of a vehicle in conducting autonomous operations. Further, the computer system determines, for each of the scenarios: (i) a first metric indicating an observed performance of the vehicle in that scenario, where the first metric is determined based on at least one rule, and (ii) a second metric indicating a degree of information gain associated with that scenario. The computer system selects a subset of the scenarios based on the first metrics and the second metrics, and outputs second data indicative of the subset of the scenarios.
Patent GB-2607050-A (GB)
Title: Microphone with integrated sound box
Inventor: KUO SU
IPC: H04R1/08
Filed: 2021-05-27
Abstract: The microphone with integrated speaker includes a front casing 1 with a front connecting portion 3 and a front handle portion 5 having a battery opening; a rear casing 2 with a rear connecting portion 4 and a rear handle portion 6 connected to the front casing 1 to form a first cavity 1010 with a cylindrical connecting portion 1030 and a cylindrical handle portion with a second cavity 1020. A metallic net cover 7 is coupled with the cylindrical connecting portion 1030; a vocal pickup 110 support arrangement 70 is provided inside the metallic net cover and between the front connecting portion and the rear connecting portion; a speaker (9, fig 3) is positioned inside the first cavity 1010; a pair of electrode plates (16, fig 2) is positioned inside the second cavity 1020; a circuit board (8, fig 2) is affixed on the front casing 1; a battery cover (14, fig 2) is detachably connected to the front handle portion 5; and an aluminium alloy handle (15, fig 4) covers the cylindrical handle portion.
Patent GB-2607094-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchanger
Inventor: CHRIS DILLINGHAM
IPC: F28D9/00
Filed: 2021-05-28
Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a stack of plates 12A, 12B, a cold fluid inlet (20, Fig.1), a cold fluid outlet (22, Fig.1), a hot fluid inlet (24, Fig.1) and a hot fluid outlet (26, Fig.1). A plurality of cold fluid flow paths 16 and hot fluid flow paths 18 are defined between the plates, with alternating cold and hot fluid flow paths. Each plate comprises a first face (28, Fig 3A), a second face (30, Fig.3A), and a plurality of apertures (32, 34, Fig 3A). In one arrangement, each plate 12A cooperates with a superjacent plate 12B for creating a plurality of seals around each aperture. In another arrangement, the apertures define first apertures (32, Fig.3A) and second apertures (34, Fig.3B). Each plate comprises first and second annular projections (36, 28 Fig.3A), extending from the first face by a first distance d1, d2 respectively, and each surrounding a corresponding one of the first and second apertures. The first distance is greater than the second distance. The first annular projections on a first plate co-operate with the second annular projections of a superjacent plate for creating a seal therebetween. The heat exchanger may be a water cooled oil cooler.
Patent GB-2596916-A (GB)
Title: Optical encoder and control apparatus
Inventor: CHIHIRO NAGURA
IPC: G01D5/347
Filed: 2021-06-07
Abstract: A scale (20) includes a diffraction grating (22, Fig. 2) which condenses diffracted light in a periodic direction of the diffraction grating in order to detect a reference position. A light receiving element array (12b) receives light from the diffraction grating and includes first to fourth light receiving elements (A+, A-, B+, B-, Fig. 6) which output signals having phases different from each other. The first light receiving element (A+, Fig. 6) and the second light receiving element (B+, Fig. 6) are adjacent to each other and are arranged between the third light receiving element (A-, Fig. 6) and the fourth light receiving element (B-, Fig. 6). A processing unit (101) generates a signal representing the reference position based on a differential signal between a signal from the first light receiving element and a signal from the third light receiving element and a differential signal between a signal from the second light receiving element and a signal from the fourth light receiving element. The phases between the first and third light receiving elements may be different by 180 degrees. The diffraction grating may include a second diffraction grating which is different from the first and formed in its vicinity.