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Patent GB-2512286-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and Relating to Dispensing
Inventor: DORNER ANDREAS
IPC: A23G1/20
Filed: 2013-03-22
Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for dispensing a pressurised fluid product 5 has a supply part 2 for supplying the pressurised fluid product, a depositor part 3 selectively to adopt an open state for fluid communication with the supply part to receive a charge of fluid product from the supply part and to adopt a closed state to isolate the charge of fluid product from the supply part to dispense the charge of fluid product from the depositor part. A buffer reservoir 4 is connected between the supply part and the depositor part for fluid communication therewith. The buffer reservoir has a volume capacity which is variable so as to expand if the depositor part is closed to admit pressurised fluid product from the supply part and to contract if the depositor part is open to eject previously admitted pressurised fluid product to the depositor for dispensing, thereby to tranquilise pressure variations within the pressurised fluid product. This is advantageous in dispensing fluid food products that may be altered or damaged by pressure fluctuations, such as chocolate.
Patent GB-2512591-A (GB)
Title: Sealing device
Inventor: SHEEHAN DAVID
IPC: A44B19/30
Filed: 2013-04-02
Abstract: A seal 2 comprises a head portion, including a planar element 10 with a platform 14, and a tail portion extending orthogonally from the head portion and frangibly connected thereto. The platform 14 is provided with at least one feature 18 which registers with a corresponding feature (32, Fig 5b) in the housing 6 into which the seal is inserted. The provision of these corresponding features, e.g. recess, indent, lug or projection, prevents rotation of the seal in the housing when it is fully inserted. Accidental breakage of the seal is reduced due to inadvertent rotation and the tamper evident nature of the seal is improved. The planar element 10 may also have a projection 12 which corresponds with a recess in order to aid positioning and alignment of the seal. The seal is preferably for use with an envelope having a zip fastener, the seal and housing locking the zip puller in a closed position in use.
Patent GB-2514185-A (GB)
Title: Device and Method for Supplying Disposable Tips to a Pipetting System
Inventor: LOWIEN THOMAS
IPC: G01N35/10
Filed: 2013-05-17
Abstract: A device for supplying, in a continuous manner a plurality of disposable tips to a pipetting system wherein the tips are supplied in trays 31a, 31b, 31c, 31d, the device comprising at least one guiding rail 11a, 11b for guiding a plurality of trays holding the tips from a loading position 21 to a supply position 22 and an empty tray removal means wherein the loading position is accessible by a user or loading means for loading the trays on at the least one guiding rail and the tips are accessible at the supply position by the pipetting system. The empty trays may be discharged into a container. The device may comprise monitoring means for recording the consumption of the tips and sensors (18, 19; fig 5), such as light barriers, for monitoing the loading of trays and the removal of trays. The device further comprises means for moving the trays along the guiding rails which include at least one belt (16a, 16b; fig 4) connected to cams (17a, 17b; fig 4) wherein the belt is moved by a motor and pulleys (13a, 13b; fig 4) such that the cam pushes the trays along the guiding rail. A method of use is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2518582-A (GB)
Title: Security plinth
Inventor: TAVERNER GUY
IPC: G07F19/00
Filed: 2013-06-26
Abstract: A plinth (10) for supporting an ATM, comprising four corner members 13, each with a pair of flanks 15 disposed at right angles. Each flank has a lip 17 that extends from it and lies in a plane parallel to it. The corner members all also comprise a foot portion to be attached to the floor. The plinth further comprises four rectangular panels 11, 12, and a rectangular platform 14. The plinth comes in a kit of parts, preferably flat-packed. In assembling the plinth, two opposing edges of the side panel are attached to the lips of a pair of corner members, making a rectangular base. The platform is then attached on top. A rectangular hoop can be used to closely surround the plinth, marking a point at which can be cut to alter the height of the plinth. This can be done before the platform is attached, and the platform can then be attached to the hoop. Two or more plinths can be stacked, to increase the height of the supporting platform.
Patent GB-2511423-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum cleaner with debris collector
Inventor: KASPER GARY
IPC: A47L9/16
Filed: 2014-01-29
Abstract: A vacuum cleaner comprises a housing (28, fig 1) comprising a suction nozzle (30, fig 1), a suction source fluidly connected to the suction nozzle (30, fig 1) creating a working airstream through the housing (28, fig 1), a separation module (26, fig 1) separating contaminants from the working airstream, the separation module (26, fig 1) includes at least one separation chamber (38, fig 3) having an air inlet 46 in fluid communication with the suction nozzle (30, fig 1), an air outlet 58 and at least one collection chamber 48 which receives contaminants separated by the at least one separation chamber (38, fig 3) and an exhaust grill assembly (60, fig 3) including an exhaust grill having openings (62, fig 3) through which the working airstream may pass and mounted within the at least one separation chamber (38, fig 3) fluidly upstream from the air outlet 58 such that the working airstream passes through the openings (62, fig 3) of the exhaust grill before reaching the air outlet 58 and a plurality of debris catching tines 70 extending below the exhaust grill within the at least one collection chamber 48 which prevent elongated debris from wrapping around and blocking the openings (62, fig 3) of the exhaust grill. The tines 70 can extend either horizontally or vertically.
Patent GB-2527486-A (GB)
Title: A method of forming complex parts from sheet metal alloy
Inventor: ADAM GEORGE
IPC: C22F1/18
Filed: 2014-03-14
Abstract: A method of forming a part from precipitation hardenable alloy sheet by solution heat treating the sheet, quenching the heated sheet at a rate sufficient to avoid precipitation to a temperature at which the sheet can be formed into the part and placing the quenched sheet between dies where it is formed. Different areas of the sheet can be quenched to different temperatures, either by applying a solid cooling medium to only a first area of the sheet or by applying a solid cooling medium to a first area at a first pressure and to a second area at a lower pressure or by directing fluid to first and second areas where the fluid is directed to the first area for a longer duration, has a lower temperature and/or has a greater mass flow than fluid directed to the second area. The method can be used to form sheets from 5xxx or 6xxx series aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys and titanium alloys.
Patent GB-2527040-A (GB)
Title: Liquid injection bush for rotary shaft
Inventor: AIKEN JONATHAN WILLIAM
IPC: F16C17/02
Filed: 2014-06-09
Abstract: A bush 38 for a rotatable shaft, preferably of a washing apparatus, the bush 38 comprising a sleeve-like body 42, an inlet 50 and, preferably four, open channels 56 formed in the internal surface of the body. The open channels 56 are in liquid communication with the inlet 50, preferably via distribution channel 64, and have respective ends 58 that open onto an end 40 of the body 42. The open channels 56 extend helically around the internal surface. Purging liquid may be applied at the inlet to remove particulate material such as grit from the channels, and the helical channels may be matched to the rotation direction to produce a screwing action driving any particulate out of the channels.
Patent GB-2522499-A (GB)
Title: Object detection in a wireless charging field
Inventor: MCFARTHING ANTHONY LAWRENCE
IPC: H04B5/00
Filed: 2014-07-23
Abstract: Wireless charging comprising transmitting a wireless charging signal, monitoring the amplitude and/or phase of the wireless charging signal, determining whether it is within a predetermined range of a predetermined value and, if it is not then stopping transmission of the wireless charging signal. After stopping the signal it may be determined whether there are any devices within range of the wireless charging signal which may be damaged by it, and if none are detected transmission of the wireless charging signal may resume. The wireless charging may be of near field communication (NFC) or radio frequency identification (RFID) devices having a battery. Other NFC or RFID devices might be damaged by the power level of the wireless charging signal.
Patent GB-2513816-A (GB)
Title: Digital printing system
Inventor: SHMAISER AHARON
IPC: G03G15/36
Filed: 2013-03-05
Abstract: A digital printing system is disclosed having two independently operable printing towers arranged in series such that a substrate sheet passes sequentially through both printing towers, and in which a perfecting mechanism is provided between the two towers to reverse each substrate sheet during transfer from the first printing tower to the second printing tower, the perfecting mechanism being selectively operable to enable the second tower to print either on the same side of each substrate sheet as the first tower or on the opposite side of each substrate sheet. As well as allowing a duplex mode, the system provides a higher speed simplex mode during which different separations of the same image are printed by the two towers.
Patent GB-2521908-A (GB)
Title: Optical axis adjustment method for x-ray analyzer and x-ray analyzer
Inventor: KAKEFUDA KOUJI
IPC: G01N23/207
Filed: 2014-10-31
Abstract: An X-ray analyzer comprises an incident side arm 3, a receiving side arm 4, an X-ray source 7, an incident side slit 8, sample stage 2 and a one-dimensional X-ray detector 11 possessing intensity positional resolution on a straight line. The adjustment method comprises an adjustment step in which a 00 position of the rotation of the receiving-side arm and a position of the angle of diffraction 2Î¸ are aligned, a Zs-axis adjustment step in which the position of the incident-side slit along a direction orthogonal to the centerline of the incident X-rays from the source is adjusted 19, and a Î¸ adjustment step in which the centerline of X-rays incident upon the sample from the source and the surface of the sample are adjusted to be parallel. In the 2Î¸ adjustment step, the Zs-axis adjustment step, and the Î¸ adjustment step, the capability for X-ray intensity positional resolution upon a straight line possessed by the one-dimensional X-ray detector is used to perform the respective adjustments.
Patent GB-2523252-A (GB)
Title: Goods storage system and method
Inventor: PEAK BOB
IPC: F25D11/02
Filed: 2015-01-19
Abstract: A goods storage system 10 comprises a plurality of compartments 20-60 with doors 21-61 respectively for access to the interior of the compartments. Each compartment is coupled to a cryogenic fluid source (100, Fig. 3) via a control system (110, Fig. 3). The control system (110, Fig. 3) controls flow of cryogenic fluid from the source (100, Fig. 3) to each compartment 20-60 to control the temperature in the interior of each compartment independently of the other compartments. Each compartment may include horizontal rails or runners (22a-22d, Fig. 2) distributed along the height of a compartment to receive totes (150, Fig. 6). The system may have a removable access barrier (160, Fig. 6) coupled to the control system to disable the flow of cryogenic fluid to the compartment when the barrier is moved. The cryogenic fluid may be liquid nitrogen or liquid air. The system is particularly suitable for installing in a vehicle and may be coupled to a computer system with a user interface mounted on or in the vehicle.
Patent GB-2536730-A (GB)
Title: Variable size spanner designs
Inventor: JON OTEGUI VAN LEEUW
IPC: B25B13/38
Filed: 2015-03-27
Abstract: The tool includes two oppositely positioned clamping elements 1.7, 1.9 which are constantly positioned parallel to each other by the sliding bar 1.8 being connected to both of the clamping elements. By moving one of the clamping elements or by turning the spanner, the distance between the elements increases or decreases, depending on the direction of movement, thereby locking or unlocking a workpiece. One of the clamping elements 1.7 may rotate about a cylindrical element 1.5 positioned in a circular cavity. The opposite clamping element 1.9 may freely move along a profiled slot 1.11. The tool may alternatively have a Y-shaped geometry (Figure 4).
Patent GB-2539702-A (GB)
Title: Power converter sub-module
Inventor: RAWAA HABEB
IPC: H02M7/48
Filed: 2015-06-25
Abstract: A sub-module 200 for a power converter module comprises a busbar 102 having a busbar terminal 114, a converter component 104, 106 having a component terminal (110, 118, fig. 2) and a flexible connector 202 coupled to the busbar terminal and the component terminal to form an electrical connection. The connector extends along a first axis between the busbar terminal and the component terminal. The connector is flexible so that there is at least one degree of freedom between the busbar terminal and the component terminal. The converter component may be a switching element e.g. IGBT 106, or an energy storage element, e.g. capacitor 104. The connector may be extendible and compressible along the first axis. The connector may be in the form of a spring or bellows. The sub-module may be part of a voltage source converter used for HVDC electrical power transmission.
Patent GB-2525555-A (GB)
Title: Methods of processing unfermented fruit seeds such as cocoa beans or cupuacu beans
Inventor: SCHNELL RAYMOND JOHN II
IPC: A23L25/00
Filed: 2014-02-19
Abstract: The present invention provides methods for processing fruit seeds, such as cocoa beans or cupuacu beans without the need of microbial fermentation. Fruit seeds are treated by adding unfermented seeds to a solution of a defined concentration of ethanol in a volume sufficient to cover the seeds, and maintaining the solution at a set temperature for a certain period of time.
Patent GB-2534984-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum cleaner air bleed
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER ROBERT DUNCAN
IPC: A47L11/40
Filed: 2015-11-30
Abstract: A vacuum cleaner comprises at least one air-bleed orifice 27 that is provided in a wall portion of the appliance which separates an internal region of the cleaner which is subject to vacuum suction from an external region which remains at ambient pressure, the orifice 37 providing air bypass communication between said external and internal regions so as to reduce suction at the nozzle or work head (15, fig 1). An air-permeable porous material 30 is disposed so as to obstruct the orifice 37, which porous material 30 permits the passage of bypass air through the orifice 37 but restricts the airflow rate therethrough. A closure 25 is provided which is moveable between a bypass configuration in which said orifice 37 is open for the passage of fluid from the external to the internal regions via the porous material 30 and a closed configuration in which the orifice 37 is closed or blocked. The air-bleed can be formed in a wand 38 of the vacuum cleaner and the porous material 30 provided in or on a traveller 25 attached to the wand 38. Alternatively the air-bleed can be provided in a sidewall of the vacuum cleaner body (fig 6).
Patent GB-2546078-A (GB)
Title: Rocker arm and method for manufacture
Inventor: Nicola Andrisani
IPC: F01L1/18
Filed: 2016-01-06
Abstract: A rocker arm with an elongate main frame 6 with at least one cam follower, a subframe 25 with an auxiliary cam follower movable between a first and second position on the main frame, A movable latch 29 positioned on the opposite end of the main frame for locking the sub frame in the first position wherein the latch has a contact surface and compliance spring 32. The latch portion has at least two wings (46, figure 3A) extending radially from the latch, and a cap-shaped element (60, Figure 4A) with a number of fingers (63, Figure 4A) which enclose the wings of the latch and leave the cap moveable axially relative to the wings. The fingers may be evenly distributed along the lower free edge of the cap element wherein the spacing is smaller than the width of the wings. A method for manufacturing a rocker arm comprising the steps of providing the components of the rocker arm, assembling the latch in the elongate main frame, arranging the wings around the latch portion, bending some of the fingers inwardly, sliding the cap shaped element over the latch portion, rotating the cap element axially and bending the remaining fingers inwardly.
Patent GB-2548081-A (GB)
Title: Logic gate
Inventor: ABUSALEH MUHAMMAD JABIR
IPC: H03K19/21
Filed: 2016-02-23
Abstract: A logic gate comprising first and second inputs (A, B) and a first memristor (M1), a second memristor (M2,) a third memristor (M3) and a fourth memristor (M4), each memristor having a positive (Vp 2 fig 1) and negative terminal (Vn, 4). The logic gate comprises first 12 and second outputs 14 and preferably a load resistor RL connecting the two terminals. The memristors connect in a bridge arrangement: the negative terminal of the first memristor M1 and the positive terminal of the second memristor M2 are connected in common to first input A; the negative terminal of the third memristor M3 and the positive terminal of the fourth memristor M4 are connected in common to second input B; the negative terminals of both the second M2 and fourth M4 memristors are connected in common to first output 12 and the positive terminals of the first memristor M1 and third memristor M3 are connected in common to the second output 14. The voltage of at least one of the outputs, or the voltage difference between the first and second outputs, corresponds to the result of a logic operation (e.g XOR and XNOR) relative to input voltages. The logic gate may further comprise a NMOS or PMOS transistor connected to the output terminals in conjunction with a series resistor RD (figures 3, 4) to provide an XOR and a AND (Anding) logic function or an XNOR and ORing (ORing) logic function. A buffer inverter gate may also be added. Various configurations of the logic gate are disclosed (fig 5 and 9-10) including a full adder logic circuit.
Patent GB-2540450-A (GB)
Title: Improved contention mechanism for access to random resource units in an 802.11 channel
Inventor: Stéphane Baron
IPC: H04W74/08
Filed: 2016-02-29
Abstract: In an 802.11ax network with an access point, a trigger frame offers random resource units to nodes for data uplink communication to the access point. To dynamically adapt the contention mechanism used by the nodes to access the random resource units, the AP updates a correcting TBD parameter at each new TXOP and includes the updated adjusting parameter in the trigger frame for the next TXOP. The nodes use the TBD parameter to generate a local random RU backoff value from a contention window range, for contending for access to the random resource units. The TBD parameter may directly impact the contention window size CWO or boundaries values of a selection range from which CWO is selected.
Patent GB-2560020-A (GB)
Title: Encoding and decoding three dimensional video data
Inventor: DONNY TYTGAT
IPC: G06T9/00
Filed: 2017-02-27
Abstract: Encoding (and/or subsequent decoding) 3D video data comprises receiving model input data indicative of the video data as three dimensional object(s). The model input data is transformed into an intermediate format by constructing a signed distance function (known as a signed distance field) comprising values each related to a different point in (limited) space and time and indicative of a nearest distance of the point to a closed surface of one of the objects. A sign of the values indicates whether the point is within or outside the object. A model to fit the signed distance function is generated as a function of time and space, and data indicative of the generated model is outputted. The generated model may comprise a parameterized model (e.g. NURB surface) and the output data may comprise the parameters. The parameterized model may be updated if the quality is lower than required, e.g. if the model deviates too far from the input data. The invention therefore provides a function that is continuous in the spatial and temporal domain which is easier to compress than usual triangle or quad meshes which cannot easily exploit temporal redundancy.
Patent GB-2544930-A (GB)
Title: Low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistor GOA circuit
Inventor: JUNCHENG XIAO
IPC: G09G3/36
Filed: 2015-02-06
Abstract: A low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistor GOA circuit, for use in forward scan transmission, comprising multiple cascade GOA units, where N is set as a positive integer, a level N GOA unit employs multiple n-type transistors and multiple p-type transistors, the level N GOA unit comprises: a transmission part (100), a transmission control part (200), a data storage part (300), a data removal part (400), an output control part (500), and an output buffer part (600). Employment of a transmission gate for transmission of a signal between upper/lower levels, employment of a NOR gate logic unit and a NAND gate for conversion of the signal, and employment of a timing inverter and an inverter for storage and transmission of the signal solve the problem of poor component circuit stability and large power consumption of an LTPS single-type TFT and the problem of TFT electric leakage of a single-type GOA circuit, thus optimizing circuit performance, and allowing implementation of a ultra-narrow frame or frameless design.
Patent GB-2546907-A (GB)
Title: Arithmetic processing with alignment to programmable decimal point position
Inventor: DAVID RAYMOND LUTZ
IPC: G06F9/30
Filed: 2015-09-22
Abstract: A data processing system uses alignment circuitry to align input operands in accordance with a programmable significance parameter to form aligned input operands. The aligned input operands are supplied to arithmetic circuitry, such as an integer adder or an integer multiplier, where a result value is formed. The result value is stored in an output operand storage element, such as a result register. The programmable significance parameter is independent of the result value.
Patent GB-2562042-A (GB)
Title: Decoder unit for texture decompression
Inventor: Kenneth C Rovers
IPC: H04N19/90
Filed: 2017-04-28
Abstract: Decoding a plurality of texels or texture elements in response to a texel request, the plurality of texels being encoded across one or more blocks of encoded texture data 310-316. The decoder 200 comprising: a first set of decoders 206, each configured to decode n texels from a single received block of encoded texture data; a second set of decoders 208, each configured to decode p texels from a single received block of encoded texture data, where the number of texels p decoded at a second decoder unit is less than the number of texels decoded at a first decoder unit n; and control logic to allocate blocks of encoded texture data to the decoders in accordance with the texel request. In embodiments, decoder units of the first set decode groups of four (2x2) texels 302, 304 in a single block for use in bilinear, tri-linear or anisotropic filtering operations, and the second set of decoder units decode a single texel 318 or a pair of texels 318, 320 in a block when the group 308 spans across multiple texel blocks 310, 316. The encoding may be according to the Adaptive Scalable Compression Texture (ASCT) format.