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Patent GB-2567484-A (GB)
Title: Media break window
Inventor: DAVID HENDERSON
IPC: H04N21/262
Filed: 2017-10-13
Abstract: A method for playing a media programme (e.g. audio/video/television) comprises storing the programme, forming a first set of alternative content (e.g. a set of generic commercial advertisements from advertisement store 30) for inserting into a break in the programme and forming a second set of alternative content (e.g. a set of user-targeted adverts from advertisement server 40) play-out during a break in the programme. A first transmission step involves transmission of the programme by a first mechanism (e.g. via radio broadcast transmitter 25 to receiver 26) followed by transmission of the first set of alternative content during the break, after which transmission of the programme resumes. A second transmission step involves transmission of the programme by a second mechanism (e.g. unicast or packet streaming over the internet 51 to a client device 50, e.g. a computer, smartphone, tablet etc) followed by transmission of the second set of alternative content during the break, after which transmission of the programme resumes. The transmission of the programme in the second transmission step is performed at different time to the transmission of the programme in the first transmission step, the difference being a first time offset. The resumption of the programme after the break in the second transmission step occurs at a different time to the resumption of the programme in the first transmission step, the difference being a second time offset wherein first and second time offsets are different. A corresponding media playout system is also described. The method and system enable targeted advert content supplied by the second mechanism (e.g. transmission via internet) to be provided based upon user/client profile/behaviours. Since the set of targeted adverts may differ in length to the set of generic adverts provided by the first transmission mechanism, the differing time offsets enable the duration of the break to be matched to that of the set of user-targeted adverts, thus avoiding interruption of the programme or adverts at the start/end of the break in the programme.
Patent GB-2555286-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for controlling mud flow across a down-hole power generation device
Inventor: MEREDITH MARIE CHERNY
IPC: E21B21/10
Filed: 2015-06-26
Abstract: A flow control device comprising a body, a main flow path formed through the body, and a bypass flow path formed through the body. The flow control device also includes a valve associated with the bypass flow path and configured to control opening and closing of the bypass flow path, wherein the valve opens the bypass valve when a sufficient pressure is exerted on the body. The main flow path delivers drilling fluid to a hydraulic power generation device and the bypass flow path diverts a portion of the drilling fluid away from the hydraulic power generation device.
Patent GB-2572790-A (GB)
Title: Puff engine
Inventor: COLIN JONES
IPC: A24F40/80
Filed: 2018-04-10
Abstract: A puff engine for drawing puffs through an article or device under test in a smoking or vaping machine is disclosed. The puff engine (22) comprises a cylinder (30), a piston (32) arranged to reciprocate within the cylinder, an inlet port (36), an exhaust port (38), and a valve. The valve comprises a rotatable shaft (40) with a first through-hole (46) for providing an inlet to the cylinder during an inlet stroke of the piston and a second through-hole (48) for providing an outlet from the cylinder during an exhaust stroke of the piston. The shaft is rotatable between a first position where the inlet port is open and the outlet port is closed and a second position where the outlet port is open and the inlet port closed. This may provide fluid paths which are shorter, have a more consistent cross-section, and/or fewer protrusions or recesses. Also claimed is a method of drawing puffs using the puff engine.
Patent GB-2565209-A (GB)
Title: Tread measuring system
Inventor: RICCARDO ANZIL
IPC: B60C11/24
Filed: 2018-06-07
Abstract: A system comprising at least one sensing system embedded inside a vehicle tyre with means to connect or interface with external electronics capable of calculating or interpolating the amount of wear on the tyre tread. The sensing parts capacitance, resistance, impedance, inductance and/or continuity may be affected by the depth of tread. The sensing part may comprise a foil or wire embedded in the tyre, protruding into at least one tread block such that electrical continuity is interrupted when tyre wear reaches a certain threshold. The sensing part may comprise two conductive plates separated by an insulating layer to form a capacitor. The sensing part may comprise at least one coil, the inductance of which can be measured. The sensing part may comprise a material or compound with magnetic properties.
Patent GB-2561122-A (GB)
Title: 18F - Fluciclovine compositions in citrate buffers
Inventor: KRISTINE ROMOREN
IPC: A61K101/02
Filed: 2012-12-21
Abstract: Claimed is a method for obtaining a radiopharmaceutical composition of 18F-1-amino-3-fluoro-cyclobutane-1-carboxylic acid (18F-FACBC) where said composition comprises; 50-100 mM citrate buffer and has a pH of 4.0-5.0 and wherein said method comprises: (i) reacting with a suitable source of [18F] a compound of formula (I) (where LG is a leaving group, PG1 is a carboxy protecting group and PG2 is an amine protecting group) to obtain a compound of wherein the leaving group has been replaced with 18F, (ii) removal of PG1, (iii) removal of PG2 to obtain crude 18F FACBC, (iv) carrying out a purification step comprising passing said crude product through a hydrophilic lipophilic balanced (HLB) solid phase to obtain ­18F FACBC, (v) formulating said 18F-FACBC with citrate buffer. Preferably, the composition comprises 60-90 mM citrate buffer. Preferably, the composition has a pH of 4.1-4.5. Formula (I)
Patent GB-2575847-A (GB)
Title: A compact telematics device for a vehicle
Inventor: Timothy Adam Cowley
IPC: H01Q1/38
Filed: 2018-07-26
Abstract: A telematics device 5 for attaching to a vehicle's on-board diagnostic system comprises: a housing 10; a printed circuit board 20 mounted within the housing; and at least one antenna. The housing comprises a base 12 comprising a connector for connecting to a diagnostic connector 30 on the vehicle and comprising side walls extending from the base. The side walls 40 are formed of a non-conductive material and the at least one antenna comprises a pattern of conductive material on at least one of the side walls. The side walls may be plastic and antenna(s) may be formed on the side wall(s) by laser direct structuring. The antenna can be suitable for receiving and transmitting cellular wireless communication signals, such as a GSM antenna. Otherwise the antenna may be suitable for receiving GPS signals. A GSM antenna and a GPS antenna may be provided. The base may have two longer sides and two shorter sides, with the antenna(s) provided on the short side wall(s). The side wall antenna is isolated from the interference of proximate circuitry or other antennas. Two antennas should be designed to reduce cross-coupling and have reduced overlap and increased separation in the frequency domain.
Patent GB-2572027-A (GB)
Title: Door lock device
Inventor: CHIH CHUNG CHANG
IPC: E05B47/00
Filed: 2018-09-04
Abstract: A door lock device, e.g. a keeper with strike plate, for cooperating with a latch bolt, and includes an actuator or solenoid device 3 located in a housing 10, a latch 4 having catch member 41 pivotally attached to the housing via a spindle 40, two arms 42 43 between the catch member and the spindle, the actuator/solenoid includes a receptacle having a slidably engaged shaft 31 having an upper and lower end portions extendible upwardly or downwardly beyond the receptacle, with two anchors 34 35 on the upper end portion for selectively engaging with the upper arm 42, and two stops 36 37 on the lower end portion for selectively engaging with the lower arm 43 of the latch. When the stop/anchor is engaged with the arms the catch member cannot move, when they are not engaged the catch member can rotate and allow the latch bolt to be released. Preferably the catch member and spindle form a parallelpiped structure. There may be a detecting element in the form of a tongue 70 pivotally mounted on the housing having a switch button 53 for detecting when the tongue has been pivoted and the keeper has been engaged with a latch bolt on the door.
Patent GB-2578724-A (GB)
Title: Aerodynamic structure for aircraft wing
Inventor: CHING-YU HUI
IPC: B64C23/06
Filed: 2018-11-05
Abstract: An aerodynamic structure 310 for an aircraft wing upper surface 320. A slat is operable between being stowed in and extending out of a slat recess. When deployed, a slat recess end face 340 is exposed. The end face 340 intersects with the wing upper surface 320 at a recess edge 330. The aerodynamic structure 310, adjacent to the recess edge 330, has a volume shaped to encourage air flowing over the recess edge 330 onto the upper surface 320, remaining attached. The aerodynamic device may energise the downstream boundary layer, improve lift, delay stall, prevent cross-flow detaching, minimise local flow separation and reduce boundary layer degradation. The structure shape may be elongate, tapering, asymmetrical, teardrop, bulbous, semi-circular, globular. The structure may smooth, round, or straight-edged to blunt a sharp recess edge. The structure may have a trapezium or curved cross-sectional profile. The structure may cause and/or augment vortex generation. The structure may be integral with, or retrofitted to a wing. The aerodynamic device may be mounted at wing root, wing pylon (figure 6), wing tip (figure 5) regions, or structural discontinuities near flaps, cut-outs and slots.
Patent GB-2569453-A (GB)
Title: In-line fluid pressure regulator
Inventor: MAJOR H GILBERT
IPC: F16K17/02
Filed: 2018-11-16
Abstract: A miniature in-line fuel pressure regulator having a regulator body that includes a housing member 105 and an adjusting member 115, a pin 110 axially disposed within the regulator body, the pin including an upper end having a circumferential groove 111, a lower end having a fluid inlet (130, fig.1), one or more fluid discharge ports, and a fluid passageway connecting the fluid inlet to the one or more fluid discharge ports 142 and 143, an elastomeric O-ring 120 positioned within the groove on the upper end of the pin so that the O-ring contacts the raised annular valve seat (107, fig.1) when the fluid pressure regulator is closed, and a biasing member coupled to the pin and configured to maintain the elastomeric O-ring in contact with the raised annular valve seat to control an opening pressure of the valve.
Patent GB-2565935-A (GB)
Title: Analyzer for a blowout preventer
Inventor: KRISHNA BABU YERUBANDI
IPC: E21B47/06
Filed: 2016-07-11
Abstract: A computing device can determine the integrity of a blowout preventer in a well system using a model generated from real-time sensor data. For example, the computing device can receive predetermined values associated with how pressure decays or otherwise changes in a pressurization subsystem over time. The pressurization subsystem can be for pressurizing the blowout preventer. The computing device can also receive, from a pressure sensor, real-time pressure measurements indicating pressures in the pressurization subsystem. The computing device can generate the model based on the predetermined values and the pressure measurements. The computing device can use the model to predict the pressure in the pressurization subsystem during a future period of time. The computing device can analyze aspects of the predicted pressure in the pressurization subsystem over the future period of time to determine if the blowout preventer is functioning properly.
Patent GB-2580925-A (GB)
Title: Train protection system
Inventor: MASAYUKI MIYAJI
IPC: B61L25/02
Filed: 2019-01-30
Abstract: A train protection system comprises a first vehicle onboard device 107 mounted in a first vehicle 101 at a head of a train formation and a second vehicle onboard device 207 mounted in a second vehicle 201 at a rear end of the train formation; a transmission line 2 is configured to connect the onboard devices. The first vehicle onboard device includes a train integrity monitoring unit 151, which monitors for establishment or loss of train integrity of the train formation based on communication contents or a communication state of the transmission line 2. The integrity monitoring may be carried out by a fail-safe computation unit. The communication on the transmission line may use polling and error detection codes. A new train formation may be created by linking multiple trains together and recognising some carriages as being intermediate (i.e. no longer the head or end of the train). The train may be autonomous and receive instructions from the trackside.
Patent GB-2571837-A (GB)
Title: Identification of contact lens wearers predisposed to contact lens discomfort
Inventor: Laura Elizabeth Downie
IPC: G01N33/52
Filed: 2019-03-06
Abstract: A method for determining a predisposition to symptomatic contact lens wear comprising optionally determining a baseline concentration of interleukin 17A (IL-17A) in a non-stimulated tear sample of a patient, delivering a stimulus to sensory neurons of a cornea of the patient to produce a tear sample, determining a concentration of IL-17A in the sample and classifying the patient as being presdisposed to symptomatic contact lens wear if the concentration of IL-17A is at or above a cut-off value pre-determined to be associated with a predisposition to such wear or the concentration of IL-17A in the simulated tear sample is higher than the baseline concentration. Also claimed is a kit comprising an antibody to IL-17A.
Patent GB-2582029-A (GB)
Title: An adaptive loop filter
Inventor: JONATHAN TAQUET
IPC: H04N19/86
Filed: 2019-03-08
Abstract: A method of controlling an Adaptive Loop Filter (ALF) for one or more image portions 401 of an image, comprising: obtaining first information for identifying a first filter useable on a block of a first image portion; obtaining, for the first image portion, one or more of second information for indicating whether to change the first filter selection, or third information for identifying a second filter; and determining one or more of whether to use the first filter based on the second information, or whether to use the second filter on said block based on the third information. Preferably one filter is a linear ALF and the other is a nonlinear ALF. The first information may comprise a filter identifier, or information indicating a class or group to which the image portion belongs, each class or group being associated with a filter identifier. Filter coefficients may be provided in the bitstream. Claims to an encoder, decoder and associated methods are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2571015-A (GB)
Title: Random number generation
Inventor: HO QUAN
IPC: H04L9/32
Filed: 2017-12-05
Abstract: A Random Number Generating (RNG) system and method are used in a global lottery system. Each Approved Participant (ARP) generates a natural random number (Input Number) by a Certified RNG script and hashes the Input Number to form an Input Hash that is then submitted to a smart contract. An Operator (QRP) of the system and method also goes through a similar process. All Input Numbers are then submitted to the smart contract as natural numbers, which are then hashed to verify that they are the same as the Input Hashes. If all is correct, the smart contract aggregates all of the Input Numbers to form an Aggregate Number, which it then hashes to produce an Aggregate Hash. The winning number of the lottery consists of the last 8 bytes of the Aggregate Hash. The RNG system and method thus provide a hybrid of an Operator RNG with a crowdsourcing input, in certifiable form.
Patent GB-2576113-A (GB)
Title: Sports goal wheel assembly, sports goal wheel system and sports goal
Inventor: Mark Harrod
IPC: A63B71/00
Filed: 2019-07-26
Abstract: A sports goal wheel assembly 200 for moving a sports goal is described. The assembly comprises a housing 202; a lifting member 222; a wheel (230, figure 3) attached to the lifting member 222, and a rotatable member 220. The rotatable member 220 is contained within the housing 202 and coupled with the lifting member 222, such that rotation of the rotatable member 220 causes the lifting member 222 to move linearly in relation to the housing 202 between a raised position and a lowered position, thereby raising and lowering the housing 202 relative to the wheel (230, figure 3). The resulting assembly improves safety by reducing shearing and trap hazards. The sports goal wheel assembly 200 may form part of, or be attached to, a sports goal (100, figure 1), such as a football goal. Examples with fixed wheels (230, figure 3), wheels mounted on castors (340, figure 10) and offset/inline positioning (see figures 4 and 14 respectively) of the wheel with respect to a frame of a goal are described.
Patent GB-2575562-A (GB)
Title: Gear train for a vehicle
Inventor: RUSSELL R HENDERSON JR
IPC: F16H37/02
Filed: 2016-06-01
Abstract: A gear train 200 for a vehicle includes a plurality of gear sets 102 that are connected in series. Each gear set includes a normally-held element such that the normally-held elements of the gear sets are connected together to rotate in unison. The gear train further includes a variator 140 that is configured to control the normally-held elements of the gear sets and wherein the normally-held element is a ring gear 202. The gear sets may be planetary gear sets and the planet carrier 108, 114 of one gear set may be connected to the sun gear 206, 208 of the adjacent gear set and there may be 3 gear sets in the transmission.
Patent GB-2593877-A (GB)
Title: Drive shaft for a surgical instrument
Inventor: DANIEL JOHN THOMAS
IPC: A61B18/14
Filed: 2020-03-31
Abstract: A drive shaft 110 for a bipolar surgical instrument comprising an elongate body 112 defining a first axis and having a proximal end portion 116 and a distal end portion 114. The elongate body comprises a first portion defining a first open channel 120 extending along a portion of the length of the elongate body; and a second portion distinct from the first portion, defining a second open channel 126 extending along a portion of the length of the elongate body. Wherein both the first and second portions are aligned with one another and extend parallel to the first axis, and wherein the first portion is spaced apart from the second portion so as to define a recessed blade track 132 therebetween, the recessed blade track extending parallel to the first axis. The first and second open channels comprise tube-like channels. The elongate body comprises a cam slot adjacent the distal end portion configured for engagement with first and second jaws of a surgical instrument. A bipolar surgical instrument comprising the drive shaft is also provided.
Patent GB-2597680-A (GB)
Title: Hairstyling device
Inventor: ELIZABETH CHANIA HICKEY
IPC: A45D2/00
Filed: 2020-07-29
Abstract: A hairstyling device 100, e.g. hair straightener or hair curling device, comprises a heatable hair contact member 115, 125 having a hair-contactable surface 116, 126, the hair contact member being operable to apply heat to hair via the surface. The device comprises a controller configured to monitor power draw associated with heating the hair contact member during use and to calculate one or more hair damage parameters based on the power draw. The device is controlled on the basis of the hair damage parameters, e.g. the heating is controlled or prevented. The parameters may be based on additional factors such as sensed movement or motion of the hair contact member, displacement from the hair-root end of the tress, whether the hair has been heated previously, or heated previously during a predetermined time period. A user interface may provide an output based on the parameters. The parameters may be indicative of pre-existing damage of the heated hair or predicted damage. The parameters may be indicative of at least one of physical damage, thermal damage and chemical damage of the hair.
Patent GB-2585523-A (GB)
Title: Electrostatic protection device
Inventor: PIER ANDREA FRANCESE
IPC: H01F27/00
Filed: 2019-01-21
Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide for an electrostatic protection device for protecting an input port of an electronic circuit. The electrostatic protection device includes a stacked coil assembly with four ports. The electrostatic protection device further includes a human body model ESD protection circuit, a charge device model ESD protection circuit, and an impedance matching circuit. The human body model ESD protection circuit, the charge device model ESD protection circuit, and the impedance matching circuit are connected to separate ports selected from the four ports.
Patent GB-2599932-A (GB)
Title: Gas sensing apparatus
Inventor: Gerard Jacob Pieter Van Westen
IPC: G01N33/00
Filed: 2020-10-15
Abstract: A gas sensing apparatus 30 and method for sensing one or more analytes in a gas or gas mixture comprising a plurality of sensors 32, each sensor 32 including a polymer layer (42, fig 3). Each polymer layer is a respective different type of chemically non-selective or semi-selective polymer. There is a measurement device 38 configured to measure a change in a parameter of each sensor in response to the interaction of an analyte with the respective polymer layer. The polymer layer may be a coating on a sensing layer. The measurement device may measure a change in an electrical parameter. The sensing layer may be a graphene-based sensing layer which may be built into a graphene field-effect transistor. There may be a detector that measures a change in a structural parameter of each polymer layer in response to interaction of an analyte with the polymer layer. The detector may be a spectrometer. Each polymer may be a transfer polymer. There may be a computer program code, memory and processor to analyse the changes in the measured parameter of the sensors to identify the/each analyte. The changes in parameter may be used as input for a machine learning model.
Patent GB-2590293-A (GB)
Title: Cyclonic air treatment member and surface cleaning apparatus including the same
Inventor: WAYNE ERNEST CONRAD
IPC: B04C3/00
Filed: 2019-08-13
Abstract: A cyclonic air treatment member comprises a cyclone and a dirt collection chamber external to the cyclone chamber. The cyclone chamber extends longitudinally in an axial direction between a cyclone first end and a cyclone second end. The cyclone chamber includes an axially extending dirt outlet. A removable dirt outlet insert member may be removably receivable by a portion of the dirt outlet.
Patent GB-2603932-A (GB)
Title: Alarm system
Inventor: JAMES ANDREW VEAL
IPC: G08B29/12
Filed: 2021-02-19
Abstract: An alarm system (100,fig.1) includes a control panel (110,fig.1) and one or more devices (130,fig.1) in wireless communication therewith. Device (130,fig.1) may be arranged to send supervision messages to the control panel at predetermined intervals to inform the control panel that the device is still operational. In order to reduce power consumption and increase battery life of device, the predetermined interval may be increased, but this is restricted to an upper limit defined by an arming delay. This limitation can be overcome by the control panel transmitting a reverse supervision message (510,fig.5a) to the device between consecutive supervision messages (200,fig.5a) to suppress transmission of the next supervision message by the device. This can be repeated over successive supervision periods (PS,fig.5a). The reverse supervision message may be broadcast to all devices in the system. The use of reverse supervision messages thus allows for a reduction in transmission frequency of supervision messages without a corresponding increase in the period for arming the device.