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Patent GB-2584835-A (GB)
Title: Agricultural harrow
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER MARTIN LOLE
IPC: A01D34/64
Filed: 2019-06-10
Abstract: An agricultural harrow 6 that preferably comprises a plurality of rows of tines 64 and is attachable to a drawbar 4, preferably through a pivotable coupling 68. The pivotable coupling may comprise a floating link assembly, preferably a planar quadrilateral linkage having four rotating joints. In a particularly preferred arrangement, one linkage (68c, Fig 6A) is pivotably fixed to the rear of the drawbar and front of the harrow, one linkage extends between two pivots on the harrow, and another linkage (68b, Fig 6A) extends from the rear of the harrow to a floating linkage attached to the drawbar by a crank (68a, Fig 6A). A pair of wheels 66 may further be connected to the harrow by means of an adjustable mounting (65a,b, Fig 7A), the mounting allowing for the position of the wheels with respect to the harrow to be varied. The drawbar may further be provided with support wheels 42 at a rear thereof. The harrow may further be connected to a trailing mower 2 by means of the drawbar.
Patent GB-2597041-A (GB)
Title: Improved inertial sensor
Inventor: NICOLAS VERCIER
IPC: G01C19/5726
Filed: 2019-11-05
Abstract: A method for determining a quadrature command and a frequency command for a vibrational wave generated by a resonator of an inertial angular sensor comprises: A determining the electrical angle; B estimating first values of the quadrature and equalization stiffnesses from first and second control operations, said first values being estimated in the wave reference frame X'Y'; C determining second values of the quadrature and equalization stiffnesses in the sensor reference frame XY, from the first values of said stiffnesses estimated in step B; D determining the quadrature command and the frequency command corresponding to said second values determined in step C; and E applying the frequency command and the quadrature command determined in step D. The resonator comprises two vibrating mobile masses coupled by springs. Excitation and detection transducers, quadrature bias transducers and frequency adjustment transducers are also provided.
Patent GB-2583825-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for rendering & pre-encoded load estimation based encoder hinting
Inventor: MICHAEL KOPIETZ
IPC: H04N19/146
Filed: 2018-04-20
Abstract: Encoding video data in a game environment, comprising: recording one or more playthroughs 700, 702 of a game environment; sorting a plurality of frames from the one or more playthroughs into cells 706 according to their location in the game environment; calculating an average encoded frame size 714 for each frame 708 associated with a given cell; calculating an average frame size 718 across all cells; based on these calculations, associating a quality setting 720 for each cell; encoding frames based on the quality setting associated to each cell. The cells are cells of a heatmap 704 tracking locations of frames in the playthroughs on a game environment map. Preferably the quality is adapted via setting a quantisation parameter used in transform encoding the video frames.
Patent GB-2580255-A (GB)
Title: Determining non-plastic state shrinkage in a cement slurry
Inventor: SIVA RAMA KRISHNA JANDHYALA
IPC: G01N33/38
Filed: 2017-11-10
Abstract: A system and method to determine a non-plastic state shrink-age (NPSS) characteristic of a cement slurry. The system and method can include operations of transmitting an ultrasonic signal through the slurry, recording a transit time of the ultrasonic signal as the slurry cures, plotting the transit time, measuring and plotting a shrinkage of the slurry, determining a transition of the transit time from an increased rate of change to a decreased rate of change, determining a first curing time at the transition, determining the detected volume at the first curing time based on the second plot; and determining a change in the detected volume from the first curing time to a second curing time, wherein the second curing time is after the first curing time.
Patent GB-2580264-A (GB)
Title: Optical modulator and method of fabricating an optical modulator
Inventor: YI ZHANG
IPC: G02F1/025
Filed: 2018-08-21
Abstract: A MOS capacitor-type optical modulator and method of fabricating a MOS capacitor- type optical modulator, wherein the MOS capacitor-type optical modulator has a MOS capacitor region which comprises an insulator formed of an epitaxially grown crystalline rare earth oxide (REO).
Patent GB-2583259-A (GB)
Title: Power supply for a prosthesis
Inventor: STEFAN SCHULZ
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 2018-11-22
Abstract: The invention relates to a power supply (3) for a prosthesis (1), comprising at least one first (12) and one second power storage device (16) for storing electrical power, wherein, in a charging mode for charging at least the first power storage device (12), said first power storage device (12) is electrically connected to the second power storage device (16) in a first manner and, in a working mode for supplying the electrical power to a consumer, the first power storage device (12) is electrically connected to the second power storage device (16) in a second manner, wherein the first manner of connection differs from the second manner of connection.
Patent GB-2583419-A (GB)
Title: Methods of secure communication
Inventor: AJIT RAMANLAL PATEL
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2018-12-04
Abstract: The invention provides methods of sending a secure message from a sender to a receiver, wherein both the sender and receiver each have a corresponding public key and private key and each have access to the other's public key, the method comprising: a) generating a message-encryption key; b) encrypting the message with the message-encryption key to generate an encrypted message and sending the encrypted message to the receiver via a first server; and c) encrypting the message-encryption key with the receiver's public key and/or the sender's private key to generate an encrypted message-encryption key and sending the encrypted message-encryption key to the receiver via a second server along with corresponding methods for receiving a secure message comprising: a) receiving an encrypted message from a sender via a first server; b) receiving an encrypted message-encryption key from the sender via a second server; c) decrypting the encrypted message-encryption key with the sender's public key and/or the receiver's private key to provide a decrypted message-encryption key; and d) decrypting the encrypted message with the decrypted message-encryption key.
Patent GB-2599087-A (GB)
Title: A switch
Inventor: MARK CURTIS
IPC: H05K7/14
Filed: 2020-09-18
Abstract: A switch comprises a switch module 4 having a user-operable actuator (fig 2, 6) to enable a user to control at least one electrical device connected to the switch and an interface module 5 electrically connected to the switch module connecting it to a building management or automation control system. Interface module 5 is mounted on switch module 4. All wiring to the switch 4 may be via the interface 5, which can be electrically connected to it by a plug and socket 13. Interface housing 11a may have recess for the switch module and be retained to it by a snap-fit using detents 10 and catches. A LED indicator (fig 2, 17) having a voltage selector to reduce supply voltage may illuminate, or indicate the status of, the switch. The switch module may have a user-operable actuator such as a button (fig 6, 25) that is inserted into an opening in its housing after assembly of the switch module with electrical circuitry on a circuit board (fig 6, 21). The housing may comprise two parts (fig 6, 20a,20b) that couple together one of which has deformable fingers (fig 6, 24) to hold the actuator button in position.
Patent GB-2600383-A (GB)
Title: Wooden electronic tag card and method for manufacturing a wooden electronic tag card
Inventor: XINWEN YE
IPC: G06K19/077
Filed: 2019-12-17
Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of electronic tag cards, and specifically relates to a wooden electronic tag card and a manufacturing method for a wooden electronic tag card. The electronic tag card sequentially comprises an upper card blank, an inter-blank hot melt adhesive layer, electronic tag paper, a heat-resistant double-sided adhesive layer, and a lower card blank from top to bottom; the top of the lower card blank is provided with a lower press-fitting groove having the same shape and size as the electronic tag paper; the heat-resistant double-sided adhesive layer is provided at the bottom of the lower press-fitting groove; the bottom of the upper card blank is provided with an upper press-fitting groove; the shape of the upper press-fitting groove is the same as that of the electronic tag paper; the inter-blank hot melt adhesive layer is provided on the bottom surface of the upper card blank and the inner wall of the upper press-fitting groove; the upper card blank and the lower card blank both comprise at least two hot-pressing shaped wood sheet layers and an inter-sheet hot melt adhesive layer between adjacent hot-pressing shaped wood sheet layers. The present invention further provides a manufacturing method for the wooden electronic tag card.
Patent GB-2590538-A (GB)
Title: Quality review system
Inventor: JOSHUA BRIAN KIDD
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2019-04-18
Abstract: A quality review management system 112 and method is used to analyse the operation of manufacturing processes within a plant 110 based on data collected by various data sources in the plant, such as batch executive applications 22, to automatically detect, store, and display exceptions within those processes for use by a quality review engineer to determine if the process operation meets certain quality standards. The quality review management system may include a configuration application 120 that enables a user to create one or more exception rules and includes an exception engine 122 that analyses process data using the rules to detect one or more exceptions within the process, and a review application 128 that enables quality review personnel to review each determined exception for resolution purposes. The system also includes an event monitor communicatively connected to an external system and to the exception engine, wherein the event monitor is configured to detect conditions within the external system and to send external information regarding the conditions within the external system to the exception engine.
Patent GB-2590779-A (GB)
Title: A mobile robot and method of controlling thereof
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER JOHN ORD
IPC: G05D1/08
Filed: 2018-08-06
Abstract: A method of controlling 2 a mobile robot 1 comprises storing an environment map 22 in a memory 5, the environment map including data to enable the robot to navigate the environment; further storing in the memory data 24 corresponding to one or more hazard areas encountered by the mobile robot during previous operations, the data corresponding to one or more hazard areas comprising a probability factor associated with each hazard area. The method further comprises updating the hazard data, reducing the probability factor for a particular hazard area when the mobile robot navigates through the hazard area without encountering a further hazard and reducing a tilt threshold 6 of the robot when the mobile robot is navigating within an area of the environment that corresponds to a previously encountered hazard area having a probability factor above a predetermined threshold. The robot is preferably a cleaning robot.
Patent GB-2604858-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use with a fastener
Inventor: HAKAN BAHCECI
IPC: F16B39/10
Filed: 2021-03-09
Abstract: An apparatus 110 for limiting compression of opposing sidewalls of a housing by a fastener comprises an elongate hollow shaft 111 for insertion through an aperture in a first sidewall of the housing. The hollow shaft 111 is arranged for receiving the fastener therethrough. The shaft 111 has a shaped 114, 115 circumferential outer profile for engaging with a corresponding interior shape of the aperture to resist rotation of the shaft within the aperture, and an anti-rotation member 112 arranged at a first end of the shaft 111 and arranged to extend perpendicularly therefrom. The anti-rotation member 112 is arranged to, in use, extend parallel to an outer surface of the first sidewall of the housing adjacent to the aperture. The anti-rotation member 112 comprises an engagement feature 116, 117 for engaging with a counterpart apparatus 120 to distribute torque applied by the fastener there-between. A second end of the shaft 111 is arranged to abut a surface interior to the housing to limit a compressive force applied between the opposing sidewalls of the housing by the fastener.
Patent GB-2612940-A (GB)
Title: Concrete fence components
Inventor: MARK JARDINE
IPC: B28B7/04
Filed: 2021-04-06
Abstract: Method of manufacturing a concrete fence component (10, fig. 1C) comprises providing a mould 21 defining an elongate casting region corresponding in shape to the component 10 and defines a pouring aperture 22 for pouring concrete mixture into the casting region 50, supporting the mould 21 with a longitudinal axis of the casting region 50 substantially vertical and with the pouring aperture 22 uppermost with respect to the casting region 50 and while the longitudinal axis of the casting region 50 is substantially vertical, pouring concrete mixture through the pouring aperture 22 into the casting region 50, allowing the concrete to set and removing the component 10 from the mould 2. The component may be a fence post of a gravel board. The mould may comprise first and second elongate wall sections, wherein the mould is supported such that a longitudinal axis of the first and second elongate wall sections is substantially vertical. Also claimed is a method of manufacturing a concrete fence component wherein the mould comprises a mechanism for reconfiguring the mould from a closed state and an open state.
Patent GB-2607575-A (GB)
Title: Method, controller and apparatus for correcting thermal images
Inventor: GIANLUCA DORINI
IPC: G06T7/80
Filed: 2021-06-01
Abstract: Correcting thermal image distortion in a thermal camera for the layer-by-layer manufacture of three-dimensional objects. The thermal camera comprises a plurality of sensor pixels arranged along a direction; the method comprising the steps of: (a) causing a temperature reference to be at a first steady state temperature 100; (b) moving the temperature reference at the first steady state temperature through positions along direction through the field of view of the thermal camera; (c) recording thermal images with the thermal camera while moving the temperature reference during step (b) (Fig 6, 240m), each thermal image corresponding to a position and comprising the detected temperature of the temperature reference; (d) identifying the pixel that detected the temperature of the temperature reference within a respective thermal image at the corresponding one of the positions; (e) constructing a thermal map 200 from the identified pixels representing the detected temperature of the temperature reference at the positions; (f) generating a correction matrix 300 for the identified pixels based on comparison between the thermal map and the first steady state temperature; and (g) applying the correction matrix to subsequent measurements of the thermal camera. A controller and an apparatus for the layer-by-layer manufacture of three-dimensional objects comprising the controller to carry out the method are also provided.
Patent GB-2595780-A (GB)
Title: Hand-held surface cleaning device
Inventor: DANIEL TONDERYS
IPC: A47L9/20
Filed: 2018-09-20
Abstract: A hand-held surface cleaning device; with a with a handle portion that is configured for batteries 1905, a nozzle, a motor for generating suction 1912, a dust cup 1910. The dust cup is removable from the device; with a door at a first end which has an open position for emptying debris and a filter 1914 which is removable from the dust cup at the other end and the device has a continuous width from the motor to the nozzle. There may be a valve between the nozzle and the dust cup and there may be a vortex finder in the dust cup. There may also be a frame and a cleaning head to which the device is removably attached. A hand-held suction device that has a valve as an essential feature, and a hand-held suction device which has a frame and a cleaning head as essential features are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2608189-A (GB)
Title: Aircraft seal
Inventor: ALESSANDROMARIA LURGO
IPC: B64C9/18
Filed: 2021-06-25
Abstract: A blade seal 200 for sealing a gap between first 10 and second 20 aircraft components, comprising a flexible seal member (205, figure 3C) having a first end (202, figure 3A) for attaching to the first aircraft component and a second end (204) for extending towards the second aircraft component, a sensor 240 (e.g. piezoelectric sensor) and an actuator 250 (e.g. piezoelectric actuator) directly coupled to the flexible seal member, wherein the sensor detects flexible seal member deformation and sends a signal to the actuator in response to the detected deformation, the actuator imparts a load on the flexible seal member and activates only in response to the signal received directly from the sensor by the actuator so as to counter the detected deformation of the flexible seal member. The load may cancel out the detected deformation. The sensor and/or the actuator may be embedded in the flexible seal member.
Patent GB-2609225-A (GB)
Title: Offshore surveying method
Inventor: Kjell E Ellingsen
IPC: G01N1/02
Filed: 2021-07-23
Abstract: An unmanned underwater vehicle 21 comprises an outer hull (10, Fig 1) defining an internal volume, a pressure communication channel (14, Fig 1) between the internal volume and the exterior of the outer hull, arranged to control the pressure in the internal volume based on the exterior pressure and a buoyancy and trim control system (18, Fig 1). The vehicle further comprises a probe 26 provided within the internal volume of the vehicle and a port at the bottom side of the vehicle, providing a channel between the internal volume and the exterior of the vehicle, for the probe to extend through the port for collecting material or data. A method of collecting samples or data using an unmanned underwater vehicle with a data and material collection probe is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2610439-A (GB)
Title: Image authentication
Inventor: SIMON PHILLIPS
IPC: G06F21/64
Filed: 2021-09-07
Abstract: A method and system of authenticating an image wherein a first hash of first data is produced and encrypted. The first data, hash function, and encrypted hask is delivered to an endpoint and the hash is decrypted. A second hash of the first data is produced using the hash function and the first and second hashes are compared to determine if the image is authentic. The first data comprises image data of the image and data relating to the contents of the image. The image contents may be semantic metadata such as a name, date of birth, place of birth, or a signature, and the image may comprise a person. The image may comprise a document or an object. A transaction may be authorised by following the above method and delivering payment details along with data identifying an authorised user of the payment details such that the transaction is authorised if the image is authenticated and a further image of the person matches the authenticated image, and the semantic metadata matches the data identifying an authorised user of the payment details.
Patent GB-2610830-A (GB)
Title: A lift apparatus for a vehicle capable of operating in a cantilevered manner
Inventor: HARPREET SANDHU
IPC: E01B25/22
Filed: 2021-09-16
Abstract: A vertical transfer apparatus for a vehicle 100 configured to run on tracks or rails. The vehicle comprising a cabin comprising: a lower support wheel 210 configured to engage with a lower running surface 410; an upper cantilever wheel assembly 230 on the side of the vehicle configured to bear against an upper guide surface 430; and a lower cantilever wheel assembly 250 on the side of the vehicle configured to bear against a lower guide surface 450. The vehicle is configured to operate in a cantilevered mode from the side of the vehicle. The vertical transfer apparatus comprises a primary track section configured to accommodate the vehicle in the cantilevered mode, and a lift apparatus configured to transfer the primary track section from a first level to a second level. The primary track section is configured to align with an entry portion to a secondary track at the second level, the secondary track being configured to accommodate the vehicle in the cantilevered mode.
Patent GB-2611339-A (GB)
Title: Injector for gaseous fuel
Inventor: MANFRED KOLKMAN
IPC: F02M21/02
Filed: 2021-09-30
Abstract: A fuel injector for gaseous fuels comprises an injection nozzle 10 having a tip region 18 with a valve seat 34 around a central outlet opening, and an outward opening injection needle 8. The injection nozzle 10 further includes a nozzle cap or collar 40 received over the tip region 18 of the injection nozzle 10 to define a thermal barrier layer between them to reduce thermal transfer. The cap 40 may be collar shaped, fig.2, or may have a cowl or hooded portion 70, fig.4, and may be slotted. The fuel injector and the nozzle cap 40 are received in a bore 16 defined in a wall of the combustion chamber such that the nozzle cap is in direct thermal contact with the bore. The thermal barrier layer between the tip region 18 and the injector cap 40 reduces the thermal energy that is transferred from the nozzle cap 40 to the nozzle 10 and, in doing do, promotes thermal transfer into the cylinder head 14.
Patent GB-2599512-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in clamping workpieces and retaining power tool apparatus
Inventor: LOUIS STREET
IPC: B25H1/10
Filed: 2020-06-04
Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus and method for use in the performance of work on a workpiece, said apparatus including a plurality of legs depending from a body so that, when the legs are in an in-use position, the body is supported at a fixed distance from a support surface with which the legs contact. The apparatus, in a first mode of use, has a clamping function to allow the workpiece to be clamped with the body and said apparatus further includes one or more support means, in one embodiment in the form of support arms, which are engageable with the body so as to define a support for the location and engagement of a power tool which, when engaged, is usable to perform a work operation on said workpiece with the apparatus being provided in a second mode.
Patent GB-2597192-A (GB)
Title: Combined propellant-less propulsion and reaction wheel device
Inventor: ANOUP KAUL
IPC: H02K53/00
Filed: 2020-04-20
Abstract: A propulsion method includes: providing a pair of synchronized rotors rotatably mounted on a frame with a bearing having a bearing outer race, bearing balls, and bearing inner race; providing a plurality of permanent magnets mounted on the pair of synchronized rotors; rotating the pair of synchronized rotors such that one of the pair of synchronized rotors rotates in a clockwise direction and the other of the pair of synchronized rotors rotates in a counterclockwise direction; loading an outer portion of the outer bearing race, bearing ball, and inner bearing race of each of the bearings, a load on the outer portion of the bearings corresponding to an attractive force between the permanent magnets of the pair of synchronized rotors. A thrust is imparted on the frame in a direction corresponding to a direction of loading of the inner bearing race.