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Patent GB-2559090-A (GB)
Title: Duel zoom and duel field-of-view microscope
Inventor: Michael Frank Gunter Wood
IPC: A61B90/20
Filed: 2015-11-03
Abstract: A surgical imaging system is described. The system includes first and second optical assemblies. Each optical assembly defines a respective optical axis, and each includes a respective set of one or more optics for adjusting field- of-view (FOV) and focus and a respective camera for capturing an image. The system includes a controller for controlling the optical assemblies and for switching the surgical imaging system between a coupled configuration and an uncoupled configuration. In the coupled configuration, the first optical assemblies are controlled to adjust the respective sets of optics and/or the respective optical axes in dependence on each other. In the uncoupled configuration, the optical assemblies are controlled to adjust the respective sets of optics, and the respective optical axes independently of each other.
Patent GB-2576029-A (GB)
Title: Illumination system and method
Inventor: Ian Bledowski
IPC: G03H1/22
Filed: 2018-08-02
Abstract: An illumination system is arranged to output a light beam 415 for illuminating a scene 417. The system comprises a spatial light modulator (SLM) 407 arranged to receive incident light from light source 401/collimating lens 403 and to output light comprising a first component and a second component wherein the first component comprises light not modulated the SLM whilst the second component comprises light which has been spatially-modulated according to a hologram displayed by the SLM. Light output form the SLM may be directed to a reflector 409 to illuminate a scene 417. A control device (e.g. light tuning device 405) is operable to control the proportion of light output by the SLM that corresponds to the second component, thus controlling a ratio of output modulated light 713 to output non-modulated light 715. The light tuning device 405 may adjust a property of the incident light (e.g. polarisation, coherence or wavelength), such that incident light of a first property will not undergo modulation by the SLM, whilst incident light of a second property will undergo modulation by the SLM. Light 413 modulated in accordance with the displayed hologram may be steered to a predetermined region in the scene. The illumination system may be implemented in a vehicle to provide controllable headlight/headlamp illumination. Also disclosed are a related system and method wherein the control device is alternatively an SLM control device (705, figure 7) which adjusts allowable modulation levels of the displayed hologram.
Patent GB-2563161-A (GB)
Title: Internal vent structure for waterproof microphone acoustic cavity
Inventor: Deborah A Gruenhagen
IPC: H04R1/28
Filed: 2016-09-19
Abstract: A printed circuit board assembly 409 for a sealed electronic device comprises a microphone mounted on the printed circuit board, a first acoustic input hole 417 formed through the printed circuit board adjacent to the microphone and an acoustically resistive air permeable venting structure 401 formed in the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board assembly may be configured to be enclosed in a sealed electronic device such that acoustic vibrations pass through a water resistant membrane of the sealed electronic device and through the first acoustic input hole to reach the microphone wherein the acoustically resistive air permeable venting structure is configured to vent an active acoustic cavity of the sealed electronic device to provide viscous acoustic damping. The acoustically resistive air permeable venting structure may include a plurality of pitched channels formed in the printed circuit board
Patent GB-2576901-A (GB)
Title: Swing control of a construction machine
Inventor: ANDERS THOMSEN
IPC: E02F9/26
Filed: 2018-09-06
Abstract: A method of providing swing control of a construction machine 53 having a worktool rotatable about a swing axis 60, a controller and a graphical user interface 31. Firstly, the controller displays to the operator, on the graphical user interface, one or more lines 50 providing longitudinal and latitudinal information of a worksite. Then the operator selects one of the one or more lines 51 using the graphical user interface. Then in response to operator inputs, the controller operating to swing the worktool about the swing axis. Finally, the controller automatically stops the swing of the worktool about the swing axis when the worktool reaches a predefined angular orientation relative to the selected line. Optionally, the lines are 2D lines, 3D lines, formed by two surfaces joining, one or more straight lines, one or more curved lines, or more lines do not contain height information. Optionally, controller determines longitudinal and latitudinal information of the construction machine from a location sensor and rotational posture information of the construction machine from a rotational posture sensor.
Patent GB-2577044-A (GB)
Title: Cooling water for an offshore platform
Inventor: MAGNE BJØRKHAUG
IPC: E02B17/00
Filed: 2018-09-10
Abstract: Cooling water is required for cooling various processing equipment on an offshore platform in a body of water. The cooling water is supplied via a caisson 4from inside of a hollow, structural leg 2 of the offshore platform, where the leg 2 of the platform extends to the seabed and is open to the body of water only near the sea bed. The structural member may be a leg of an offshore production platform which extends to the sea bed and which may have an opening 3 to expose the interior of the structural member. A later embodiment relates to an offshore platform comprising said structural leg to supply water to the platform and a method of retrofitting an offshore platform with a water supply conduit within a structural member of the platform.
Patent GB-2564344-A (GB)
Title: Lip enhancement device and method
Inventor: BRETT NELSON
IPC: A61H9/00
Filed: 2017-04-06
Abstract: A lip-enhancement device can include a vacuum pump, a controller configured to control the vacuum pump, a pump housing structured to enclose the vacuum pump and the controller, and a mouthpiece reversibly and rigidly mountable to the pump housing. The mouthpiece can include a pump-housing-engaging side structured to reversibly mount to the pump housing on a mouthpiece-receiving side of the pump housing, and a lips-engaging side having a generally oval rim with a thermoplastic elastomer outer layer. The generally oval rim can bound a bowl, and the bowl can include a suction port providing fluidic communication between an interior of the bowl and an exterior of the bowl on the pump-housing-engaging side. The mouthpiece-receiving side of pump housing can include a suction connector structured to fluidically couple the suction port of the mouthpiece with the vacuum pump when the mouthpiece is mounted to the pump housing.
Patent GB-2572663-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for determining permeability of reservoirs
Inventor: NING LI
IPC: G01V3/38
Filed: 2018-10-15
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining the permeability of the reservoir wherein the reservoir comprises at least two borehole radial zones comprising annular regions centred on a well axis of a target well. The method comprises: acquiring logging data corresponding to the at least two zones; determining the permeability of a specified zone of the two zones at least based on logging data corresponding to the specified zone, representing any one of the two zones; setting weight values corresponding to the at least two zones respectively; and determining the permeability of the reservoir based on the weight values and the permeability respectively corresponding to the two zones at least. Preferably there are four zones, wherein the distance of the first zone from the borehole is ranges from 0-0.1m, the distance of the second zone ranges from 0.1-1m, the third from 1-10m and the fourth from 10-40m. Determining the permeability of each zone may be based on electrically imaged logging, array acoustic wave logging, monopole far-detection logging and dipole far-detection logging respectively. The weight values may be determined according to a distance of the zone from the borehole.
Patent GB-2577947-A (GB)
Title: Verifying stack pointer
Inventor: THOMAS CHRISTOPHER GROCUTT
IPC: G06F12/14
Filed: 2018-11-23
Abstract: An apparatus comprises: processing circuitry 4 to perform data processing in one of a plurality of security domains including at least a secure domain and a less secure domain, and memory access checking circuitry 22 to check if memory access is allowed depending on security attribute data indicating which domain is associated with a target address. In response to a given change of program flow from processing in the less secure domain to a target instruction having an address associated with the secure domain: a fault is triggered when the target instruction is not a gateway instruction indicating a valid entry point to the secure domain. When the target instruction is said gateway instruction, a stack pointer verifying action is triggered to verify whether it is safe to use a selected stack pointer stored in a selected stack pointer register 14. The processing circuitry can be configured to operate at different privilege levels and may also be configured to perform reentrancy checking (120, fig. 10) in response to the gateway instruction. The apparatus may further comprise exception control circuitry 28 responsive to exception conditions to perform entry or return transitions.
Patent GB-2568003-A (GB)
Title: Solar rechargeable unmanned vehicle systems and methods to monitor a geographic area
Inventor: John p thompson
IPC: B64D47/00
Filed: 2017-08-23
Abstract: Some embodiments provide an aerial monitoring system to monitor a geographic area, comprising: a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising: a plurality of lift motors to drive a propeller; a substructural support supporting the lift motors and propellers; a UAV control circuit configured to control the operation of the lift motors; a rechargeable electrical power source that supplies electrical power to the UAV control circuit and the plurality of lift motors; a recharge control circuit; and a modifiable support system cooperated with the substructural support and supporting a set of photovoltaic cells electrically coupled with the rechargeable power source and configured to supply electrical power to the rechargeable power source, wherein the recharge control circuit is configured to control a modification of the modifiable support system to cause a physical modification of at least an orientation of the modifiable support system relative to the substructural support.
Patent GB-2574931-A (GB)
Title: Radiofrequency component performance measurement using radiated spurious energy
Inventor: ARIEL L GALAN
IPC: H04B17/318
Filed: 2019-04-25
Abstract: A portable communication device comprises a transceiver, a digital signal processor coupled to the transceiver, and an electronic processor coupled to the transceiver and the digital signal processor. The electronic processor is configured co tune the transceiver from an operating channel to a self-quieting (spurious emission) channel 204. The electronic processor is configured to receive from the digital signal processor, a received signal strength indication based a self-quieting signal received via the transceiver 206. The electronic processor is configured to compare the received signal strength indication for the self-quieting signal to a predetermined reference signal strength indication associated with the self-quieting channel to determine a signal strength difference 208. The electronic processor is configured to, when the signal strength difference exceeds a threshold 210, generate a component failure alert based on the signal strength difference 212.
Patent GB-2583494-A (GB)
Title: Little tow
Inventor: HUGH EDELEANU
IPC: E02F3/36
Filed: 2019-04-30
Abstract: An excavator mounted trailer towing attachment that has on pins 12, 13 and quick hitch pick up points 18, 19. The trailer tow coupling 34 may have a gooseneck or ball coupling 35 and a pin type coupling 36. The trailer towing attachment may have a spring type torsion system that may have a spring plate 29. The trailer towing attachment may have two separate excavator pick up positions to accommodate different sizes of excavator pin. Pins 12 and 13 could be used by smaller sized excavators 40 and pins 18 and 19 could be used by larger excavators 41.
Patent GB-2586486-A (GB)
Title: Structural material for fabricating a vehicle component
Inventor: Paul Blake
IPC: F16F1/02
Filed: 2019-08-21
Abstract: A spring 100, e.g. for forming a vehicle component such as a spring is provided. The spring 100 comprises a structural core portion 110 and a structural sheath portion 120. The core portion 110 comprises a metal such as steel as a majority constituent by weight percent; and the sheath portion 120 comprising a metallic material such as titanium or a titanium alloy. A method of forming a spring and a vehicle including such a spring are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2585715-A (GB)
Title: Improved fire compartment strategy for modular buildings
Inventor: JAMES WALSH
IPC: E04B1/348
Filed: 2019-08-21
Abstract: The modular building comprises adjacent first and second modular units 101, each unit having external sides including floor 103, ceiling 104 and walls 105. The units are separated by an external side (e.g. wall) of the first unit, and fire-resistant material 110 provided thereon forms part of a fire compartment line defining a fire compartment containing the second unit. The fire-resistant material may be provided on an external surface 105a. There may be further fire-resistant material on an internal surface 105b, forming part of a fire compartment containing the first unit. The units may be further separated by a wall of the second unit such that a cavity 111 is formed between the units, said cavity being contained within the fire compartment containing the second unit. The external side walls of the first and/or second units may comprise one or more columns and beams 107, with fire-resistant material provided around these forming part of the first and/or second fire compartment line. The external side may be the floor of the first unit, with the second unit positioned below. Also claimed is a method of providing fire compartments.
Patent GB-2588400-A (GB)
Title: Switching circuit and method for constantly supplying power for vehicle
Inventor: WAH BOO FOO
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 2019-10-22
Abstract: A switching circuit and a method for constantly supplying power, and particularly for constantly supplying power to a load of a vehicle without damage of the load. The switching circuit for constantly supplying power for a vehicle comprises a load 110; a battery for supplying the power to the load; a detector 130 operable to detect at least one of current and voltage of the battery and determine whether a direction of current flow is normal or reversed; and a switch driver 140 connected between the detector and a plurality of switches 151-154, characterised in that: the switch driver is operable to control at least one of the plurality of switches based on the direction of the current flow, so that the power is constantly supplied to the load without damage of the load. The switches may comprise a first group and a second group, where the switches are enabled/disabled in their groups.
Patent GB-2591443-A (GB)
Title: A directional wheel stop
Inventor: MARK WILLIAM SHANLEY
IPC: B62B5/04
Filed: 2019-12-05
Abstract: The present invention relates to a directional wheel stop 100. The direction wheel stop when in use is in contact with the ground. The wheel stop has a recess 10 defined in its body with an opening at an upper surface. The recess is arranged to receive and retain at least one wheel. At least two ramps 20 are formed in the body of the wheel stop that define channels for guiding the at least one wheel to and from the recess. The recess has at least one drain hole 15 is provided in the recess to allow liquid to escape therefrom. The ramp may be tapered from a perimeter edge of the wheel stop to provide a lateral guide to the wheel and may have sidewalls 25. The recess may be concave in order to guide the wheel. The wheel stop may feature at least one aperture for receiving a securing mean. The wheel stop may also be made of recycled material and be formed from luminescent material or have reflective means. In other embodiments the wheel stop may comprise magnetic means of securing the wheel.
Patent GB-2585418-A (GB)
Title: Refrigeration air conditioner
Inventor: KOTA SUZUKI
IPC: F25B49/02
Filed: 2017-09-15
Abstract: This refrigeration air conditioner is provided with: a supercooling heat exchanger in which a compressor, a condenser, a decompression device, and an evaporator are connected by piping, and a refrigerant is circulated, and which supercools the refrigerant that has flowed out of the condenser; an injection circuit that causes a portion of the refrigerant that has flowed out of the supercooling heat exchanger to flow into the compressor; an inlet temperature sensor that detects the inlet temperature of the refrigerant that flows into the supercooling heat exchanger; an outlet temperature sensor that detects the outlet temperature of the refrigerant that flows out of the supercooling heat exchanger; and a control device that determines whether the amount of refrigerant flowing through the piping is sufficient or not. The control device has: an evaluation value calculation unit that calculates an evaluation value on the basis of the inlet temperature and the outlet temperature; and a refrigerant amount determination unit that determines whether the refrigerant amount is sufficient or not according to the result of a comparison between the evaluation value and a set threshold.
Patent GB-2581282-A (GB)
Title: System and method for providing a security code
Inventor: TUSHAR VAISH
IPC: G06Q20/34
Filed: 2014-01-03
Abstract: A computer implemented electronic card distribution system is configured to receive an electronic open loop stored-value card distribution request and provide the electronic open loop stored-value card in response to the request. The system notifies a recipient of the electronic open loop stored-value card provided in response to the electronic open loop stored-value distribution request and allows the electronic open loop stored-value card to be associated with an electronic wallet 10. The electronic open loop stored-value card is enabled for a redemption transaction, a reload transaction, or combinations thereof. The electronic card may be provided as an eGift or eCode and delivered as a uniform source locator. The URL may be delivered through email, short message service (SMS), social media post, or other electronic channel and may references a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) page which provides information concerning the eGift. The eCode may comprises an identification number of the electronic card, an expiration date and a security code which may be a CVV2 calculated in real time by encrypting a primary account number (PAN), the expiration date and security code with encryption keys.
Patent GB-2581298-A (GB)
Title: Application of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for analyzing sag of drilling fluids
Inventor: XIANGNAN YE
IPC: G01N27/02
Filed: 2017-12-21
Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the composition of a drilling fluid using electro-rheology may be provided. A method for drilling a wellbore may include: circulating a drilling fluid in a wellbore; extending the wellbore into one or more subterranean formations; measuring impedance of at least a portion of the drilling fluid over time as one or more particulate additives in the drilling fluid settle; determining one or more model elements of an equivalent circuit model for modeling frequency responses of the drilling fluid from the impedance; and determining sag behavior of the drilling fluid based, at least partially, on the one or more model elements.
Patent GB-2585139-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic body-worn mounting system and method
Inventor: ROBERT V VANMAN
IPC: H01F7/02
Filed: 2020-06-04
Abstract: A magnetic mounting device 100 comprises a first member 102 with first magnets 202 in a surface of the member and a second member 104 with rotatable second magnets 204 in a surface of the second member; where the first and second members may be coupled and where the second magnets 204 are rotatable between a locked engagement position and a release position. The members 102, 104 may include engagement damping means between the said members, suitable engagement alignment features 206, 208, 210 and a camera attachment means. The rotation of the second magnets 204 may be affected by a mechanism involving two release arms at either side of the second member 104. The members 102, 104 may comprise lightweight materials such as polymer or aluminium. A method of operating a magnetic mounting device is disclosed which involves the actuation of release arms to cause magnets to rotate from a locked position into a release position to decouple a device from a mounting. Alternatively, there is disclosed a mounting device comprising a first member in which there is disposed a first magnet, a second member in which there is disposed a second magnet; where the second member may slide relative to the first member, when they are coupled, between a locking position and a release position by means of a finger rest on the second member.
Patent GB-2583320-A (GB)
Title: Connections for humidification system
Inventor: HAMISH ADRIAN OSBORNE
IPC: A61M16/16
Filed: 2014-09-15
Abstract: A cartridge 300 is used with a heater base 102 having a processor and/or memory. The cartridge has a memory configured to store calibration data. When the cartridge is coupled to the heater base the memory of the cartridge is placed in communication with the processor and/or memory of the heater base. The cartridge is used in a method of supporting a humidification chamber within a humidification system. Two cartridges 300a, 300b are provided which are distinct from each other and the first cartridge is removed before the second cartridge is installed on the humidification chamber. The two cartridges are exchangeable such that only one cartridge connects to the heater base at one time and operation of the humidification system is determined based in part on a type of cartridge being connected to the heater base.
Patent GB-2589434-A (GB)
Title: Integration of multiple communication physical layers and protocols in a process control input/output device
Inventor: Mark John Nixon
IPC: G05B19/418
Filed: 2020-09-02
Abstract: An input/output device 140 for use in a process control system to couple a plurality of field devices to a process controller, comprising: a head-end unit 142 including a first base unit; a first bus disposed in the first base unit and coupled to one or more processor modules 145; the first bus connected to an external connector adapted to be coupled to the process controller; a plurality of marshalling units 152; and a different terminal block 150 associated with each of the marshalling units 152, wherein each terminal block 150 accepts wiring to be used to couple the terminal block 150 to one or more of the field devices; a second bus disposed on the first base unit to couple the one or more processor modules to the plurality of marshalling units 152; wherein a first one of the marshalling units performs communications with a set of field devices using a first type of physical layer and a second one of the marshalling units performs communications with a different set of field devices using a second type of physical layer different than the first type; wherein the terminal block associated with the first marshalling unit accepts the first type of physical layer and the terminal block associated with the second marshalling unit accepts the second type. Further aspects disclose the marshalling units being inserted into a number of slots 149 and that the communication layers correspond to communication protocols.