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Patent GB-2539528-A (GB)
Title: Greenhouse and door assembly
Inventor: MATTHEW HILL
IPC: E05D15/06
Filed: 2016-03-17
Abstract: A greenhouse having a base and a roof supported by the base and a door assembly comprising a rail 122 detatchably coupled to the roof with a pair of internal channels 210 212; a pair of door flaps 126 are slidably coupled to the rail via the channel and via a plurality of rolling members 324 330 at a top portion of each door flap and located at spaced apart locations along the elongate axis of the channel. Preferably the rolling members are arranged in pairs and may be mounted to connecting links 310 312 attached to the top portion of the door flap, the connecting links preferably being smaller than the combined length of the top portions of the door flaps. The end of the rails may be open to allow the connecting links to pass through and out of the channel. The ends of the rail may be constrained within the margins of the roof.
Patent GB-2533516-A (GB)
Title: Target direction determination method and system
Inventor: GIL BAR HILLEL
IPC: G01C1/04
Filed: 2014-09-14
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of determining a direction of a target in a ground referential, the method comprising: acquiring an image of a scene including the target and a control object using a camera; obtaining position data of the camera and control object using a geo-spatial positioning system; determining a control direction from the camera to the control object in the ground referential using said position data; estimating a camera attitude in the ground referential using the control direction; determining the target direction from the camera to the target using the estimated camera attitude and a pixel position of the target in the image.
Patent GB-2540647-A (GB)
Title: Negotiating quality of service for data flows
Inventor: VIDHYALAKSHMI KARTHIKEYAN
IPC: H04L47/80
Filed: 2016-03-29
Abstract: Resources in a network are allocated based on a Quality of Service (QoS) model negotiated between a gatekeeper 104 and a client 102. The method involves the client transmitting a query 302 to the gatekeeper specifying one or more QoS requirements for a data flow, and the gatekeeper identifying, based on the specified QoS requirements, one or more QoS models from a set of stored QoS models, each QoS model defining a Class of Service (CoS) available in the network. A query response 306 is transmitted to the client specifying the identified QoS models. Subsequently, a reservation request 314 is received specifying at least one of the identified QoS models selected by the client. Resources are allocated in the network for the data flow based on the at least one QoS model specified in the reservation request. In response to receiving the identified QoS models, the client may transmit one or more further queries 308 including modified QoS requirements in relation to the data flow, and the process is repeated. The client may specify several QoS models in the reservation request and include a priority order for the models.
Patent GB-2548856-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for processing aggregate material
Inventor: ENDA IVANOFF
IPC: B07B13/16
Filed: 2016-03-30
Abstract: An apparatus for processing aggregate material comprises a chassis 2 upon which is mounted a logwasher comprising a trough 4 mounted on the chassis at an inclined angle, a pair of parallel shafts (6,8, fig 2) rotatably mounted within the trough extending from a lower to an upper end of the trough, an electric motor 10 being provided for driving the shafts in opposite directions, each shaft having a plurality of blades (14,16, fig 2) mounted thereon. The blades on the adjacent shafts are staggered such that the blades can pass between one another during rotation of the shafts. The blades are angled so that they carry material within the trough towards an upper end of the trough. Means are provided for adding water to the trough and at least one weir 18 is provided at a lower end of the trough over which excess water and any trash floating thereon can pass. The weir 18 leads to a respective duct 26 to convey water and trash onto the deck of a dewatering screen 32 mounted adjacent the lower end of the trough, whereupon the collected trash is dewatered via a vibratory motion. A grading screen 34 is mounted on the opposite end of the chassis from the dewatering screen 32, the grading screen being arranged to receive washed aggregate material from an upper end of the trough. The dewatering screen 32 has a collection sump 38 beneath the deck thereof to receive excess water and contaminants. A transfer pipe or trough 40 extends from the collection sump 38 of the dewatering screen 32 to the sump 36, into which water and undersize material passes, of the grading screen 34 for transferring water from the collection sump 38 of the grading screen 34 into the sump 36 of the grading screen 34.
Patent GB-2555558-A (GB)
Title: Water quality control for evaporative cooler
Inventor: ALAN BERESFORD
IPC: F28F25/00
Filed: 2016-06-17
Abstract: A method of controlling an evaporative-cooler water-supply system by: a) controlling an inlet 6 to deliver water to a sump 8 until a high-water-level sensor 10 senses that the water has reached a predetermined high water level, enabling circulation of water from the sump through an evaporative cooling pad 14 and back to the sump; b) in response to a low-water-level sensor 16 sensing that the water level in the sump has reached a predetermined low water level, controlling the inlet 6 to deliver water to the sump until the high-water-level sensor senses that the water has reached the predetermined high water level; c) repeating step b) for a predetermined number of cycles; and d) controlling a drain 18 to empty the sump of water once step b) has been repeated for the predetermined number of cycles. The controller may measure a cycle time between the water reaching the predetermined high water level and the predetermined low water level, and control the drain to empty the sump of water before completion of the predetermined number of cycles if the cycle time becomes greater than a predetermined cycle-time limit.
Patent GB-2537771-A (GB)
Title: Support arrangement for a turbine
Inventor: JAMES ORME
IPC: F03B17/06
Filed: 2012-10-26
Abstract: A water turbine generator housing comprising a slip ring 11 for conducting electricity from the turbine to a cable 15. The housing features an opening on its lowermost side, which permits partial flooding of the housing, while the slip ring is positioned in a dry head space of the housing. The housing may also comprise bearings 13 to permit the housing to rotate about the vertical axis and bearings (30/34, figure 6) to permit the internal components to rotate. The turbine may be a tidal turbine. Also disclosed is a socket with engaging portions that are moveable relative to the socket wall, and a socket and male engaging member with engaging portions comprising a leading portion and a bearing portion.
Patent GB-2556035-A (GB)
Title: Energy harvesting method utilising the exterior of buildings
Inventor: MARK CURTIS HOPKINSON
IPC: F03D9/45
Filed: 2016-09-28
Abstract: An energy harvesting method using the exterior of buildings comprises fittings 3 which have small fins 1, 2 which protrude from the surface so that they are repeatedly moved by wind or rain. The kinetic movement is converted to energy which is harvested and stored for power delivery to the building. The fittings may comprise roof tiles, ridge tiles, wall coverings, guttering or down pipes. The system may include energy storage capacitors connected to the generators.
Patent GB-2540081-A (GB)
Title: Locating a downhole tool in a wellbore
Inventor: LI GAO
IPC: E21B47/18
Filed: 2014-06-05
Abstract: A downhole cement plug includes a casing collar locator (CCL) operable to generate signals indicative of casing collars on a downhole casing string of a wellbore system; a controller communicably coupled to the CCL to output a plurality of distinct frequency signals based on the signals from the casing collar locator; and a signal generator communicably coupled to the controller to receive the plurality of distinct frequency signals from the controller and transmit the plurality of distinct frequency signals to a terranean surface through a portion of a wellbore system.
Patent GB-2545552-A (GB)
Title: Additive manufacture of electrically conductive materials
Inventor: Vijay Jagdale
IPC: B33Y10/00
Filed: 2016-11-07
Abstract: Additive layer manufacturing method comprising: depositing layer of absorptive material 114 onto a workpiece; depositing a layer of additive manufacturing stock powder 108 into the workpiece; and fusing the stock powder to the workpiece using a focused energy source 104 at a wavelength where the absorptive material has a higher absorptivity than the stock powder. Preferably, successive layers of absorptive and stock material form component 106. Preferably, component comprises conductive material, such as 99.9% pure copper, aluminium or noble metals. Preferably, energy source is 1064nm laser. Preferably, stock layer is 10-200µm and absorptive layer less than 9µm. Preferably, workpiece is oxidised to remove absorptive layer, and reduced to remove oxide layer from oxidisation. Preferably, absorptive material is graphite, carbon black or graphene. Preferably, absorptive layer is added before or after stock layer so absorptive/stock layer is coated by stock/absorptive material. Preferably, layer thickness is controlled by recoater blade or sprayer.
Patent GB-2552853-A (GB)
Title: Process of manufacture
Inventor: Toomas Moks
IPC: C07K14/47
Filed: 2015-09-17
Abstract: The invention claims a process for the recovery and/or purification of a protein comprising the sequence of Annexin A5 (AnxA5) from a composition that comprises the AnxA5 protein and a calcium metal ion chelator, characterised in that the process comprises subjecting the composition to an anion exchange resin in order to perform an anion exchange step and thereby recover and/or purify the AnxA5 protein from the composition, and further characterised in that the anion exchange step is conducted in the presence of additional selected metal ions, wherein the additional selected metal ions are selected such that the calcium metal ion chelator has a binding affinity for the selected metal ions that is greater than its binding affinity for the anion exchange resin, but less than its binding affinity for calcium ions. Compositions comprising the purified AnxA5 and its medical uses are claimed.
Patent GB-2558676-A (GB)
Title: Robotics process automation platform
Inventor: GANESH RAJ MOHAN PARIMELAZHAGAN
IPC: G06Q10/10
Filed: 2017-01-23
Abstract: This application is for a robotics automation platform for developing and managing a workflow. The system uses a server 102 that includes a development and operational database 114, 120. It also includes a development interface component 110 that allows the user to create a workflow and store it in the development database. It then uses a control interface component 112 to select the workflow stored in the development database and store a copy of it in the operational database. Finally, it has a virtual computing device 104 that has a runner component 122 that receives instructions from the control interface component to store the copy of the workflow in a second memory, and then downloads the workflow and instructs a processor to execute the workflow in association with a target application 124. The server may also include a requirements database and a requirements gathering component to gather the requirements that the workflow needs to have when it is executed.
Patent GB-2543238-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for the automatic detection of lithium batteries in cargo, baggage, parcels and other containers
Inventor: EDWARD D FRANCO
IPC: G01V5/00
Filed: 2015-07-15
Abstract: The present specification discloses methods for scanning objects for the presence of lithium batteries. Normalized transmission X-ray data is used to generate organic, effective Z, and attenuation-based images. These images are then segmented using a combination of thresholding and region growing techniques to identify regions of interest. The regions are classified as lithium batteries or other objects, based on characteristics such as area of the region, its organic intensity, Zeff number, shape, spatial arrangement and texture.
Patent GB-2550272-A (GB)
Title: System and method for transporting an object to be moved
Inventor: JAMES W YOUNG JR
IPC: B62B5/00
Filed: 2017-03-24
Abstract: A device and method is provided that includes a plurality of dollies. Each dolly includes: a base portion (104); a plurality of wheels (106) attached to the base portion; side walls (110) extending from the base (104), and defining a channel; an adjustment mechanism (118) and an engagement member (116, fig. 3) disposed along an inside of one of the sidewalls (110) and configured to deform when a pressure is applied thereto by the adjustment mechanism (118) to secure an object within the channel. A block portion (202) is provided within the channel, configured to angle the object secured within the channel. The object may be a table. (400, fig. 5), and each dolly may be attached a leg of the table. The wheels may form part of casters that are lockable, and may be locked during rotation of the object. The dollies may be configured to support a table on a side, cantilevered so as to reduce the tipping likelihood of the table during transport (fig. 5).
Patent GB-2547352-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for reduction of audio artifacts in an audio system with dynamic range enhancement
Inventor: KU HE
IPC: H03G3/30
Filed: 2015-09-04
Abstract: A signal path may have an analog path portion and a digital signal path portion. The digital portion may have a selectable digitally-controlled gain and may be configured to convert a digital audio input signal into an analog input signal in conformity with the selectable digitally-controlled gain, the digital signal path portion comprising a modulator including a forward path and a feedback path. The forward path may include a loop filter for generating a filtered signal responsive to the digital audio input signal and a feedback signal, a quantizer responsive to the filtered signal for generating a quantized signal, and a first gain element configured to apply the selectable digitally-controlled gain to a signal within the forward path. The feedback path may be configured to generate the feedback signal responsive to the quantized signal, the feedback path including a second gain element having a gain inversely proportional to the selectable digitally-controlled gain.
Patent GB-2560971-A (GB)
Title: A wind turbine system
Inventor: GILES HENRY RODWAY
IPC: F03D80/80
Filed: 2017-03-30
Abstract: A modular wind turbine system comprised of multiple modules, where each module comprises a frame 4,5 and at least one wind turbine 8, a set of first electrically conductive members 4 and a set of second electrically conductive members 5, the first members forming a collection circuit with the generator 12, the second members connected to the second members of adjacent modules to form a transmission circuit, the first members being connected to the second members of a module in order to feed electric from the collection circuit to the transmission circuit, and where the first and second set of members form structural rails of the frame which supports the turbine. The first members of one module may connect to the first members of adjacent modules, where the modules connected by the first members is a subset of the modules connected by the second members, forming a series of collection circuits. The first and second sets of members may be connected by a power converter 16, inverter or transformer.
Patent GB-2561895-A (GB)
Title: Cooling of electronic displays
Inventor: STEPHEN CRAIG WHITEHEAD
IPC: H05K7/20
Filed: 2017-04-28
Abstract: An electronic display comprising: a housing 120 divided into regions; a display panel 121 in one of the regions, preferably a large-scale LCD display which may be visible through the housing; a cooling module 100 in the housing providing a flow of coolant through the cooling module and the regions. Each region has its own circulating loop of coolant, through the respective region and the cooling module. Coolant passes over both the front and back of the display panel. There may be plural display panels, each within a different region. One region may not have a display panel. There may be an internal coolant deflector 143 facing a coolant outlet. The cooling module may comprise a heat exchanger 100, preferably having paths for internal and external coolants. There may be an electronic control assembly 134. Another display including a bus connecting the sensors, controller and other components is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2546692-A (GB)
Title: Wireless traffic management system for caching at a mobile device based on user characteristics
Inventor: ARI BACKHOLM
IPC: H04L29/08
Filed: 2015-10-13
Abstract: A method of conserving network bandwidth through caching is provided. The method includes receiving, at a mobile device, information or characteristics about another user, determining information to cache based on the information or characteristics about another user, and caching, at the mobile device, the determined information.
Patent GB-2552260-A (GB)
Title: Tessellation method
Inventor: SIMON FENNEY
IPC: G06T17/20
Filed: 2015-06-05
Abstract: A tessellation method is described which uses vertex tessellation factors. For a triangular patch, the method involves comparing the vertex tessellation factors for each vertex of the patch to a threshold value and if none exceed the threshold, adding a new vertex to subdivide an edge between the selected vertex and the previous neighbour vertex and dividing the sub-quad defined by the defined vertex, the newly added vertex, the centre vertex and the next neighbour vertex into two triangles by connecting the defined vertex to a diagonally opposite vertex in the new quad. If at least one of the three vertex tessellation factors exceeds the threshold generating a centre vertex to the patch and calculating a vertex tessellation factor and blend factor for the newly added vertex, and for each of the receive vertices determining whether its tessellation factor exceeds a threshold and if not determining if its next neighbours tessellation factor does and that the previous neighbours tessellation factor does not then adding a new vertex to subdivide an edge between the selected vertex and the next neighbour vertex and drawing a single triangle connecting the defined vertex, the newly added vertex and the centre vertex
Patent GB-2554504-A (GB)
Title: Plant builder system with integrated simulation and control system configuration
Inventor: JEFFREY THOMAS SNYDER
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2017-07-10
Abstract: A plant builder system or method to enable iterative plant design includes a process & instrumentation diagram (P&ID) 305 and an equipment object generator 310 that when executed generates equipment objects (500, fig 5, which may be modules, routines and/or data structures) corresponding to equipment symbols in the P&ID. Each equipment symbol corresponds to a component of physical equipment in the plant (e.g. valves, pumps, sensors). Each equipment object includes a simulation element (520, fig 5) that provides simulation of the equipment object. The equipment object also includes an equipment symbol name or ID (512, fig 5), a graphic element associated with the symbol (514, fig 5), material inputs and outputs (I/O, e.g. flow in a pipe) based on connections with other objects and an I/O communication element that defines an address of a controller of a physical component in the plant. This system or method and systems may be used to test multiple P&ID designs and control strategies before a plant is constructed, enabling engineers to test physical layouts for the particular unit, facilitating thus optimal design and control of the plant.
Patent GB-2564844-A (GB)
Title: A light-activated switching resistor, an optical sensor incorporating a light-activated switching resistor, and methods of using such devices
Inventor: Anthony J Kenyon
IPC: H01L45/00
Filed: 2017-07-17
Abstract: A switching resistor comprises a dielectric layer (e.g silica SiO2) disposed between a first electrode layer (e.g Silicon) and a second electrode layer (e.g ITO), the switching resistor having a high resistance state and a low resistance state. The switching resistor is responsive to a voltage bias (24 figure 2) exceeding a threshold which is applied between the electrodes, such that the bias enables a switch from a high to a low resistance state. Crucially, the switching resistor is sensitive to photo illumination (light irradiation) of the device which reduces the threshold. The first electrode may be a p-type silicon substrate absorbing photo generated free electron (free carriers) which create Frenkel pairs in the adjacent dielectric, which may be silicon oxide (SiOx). The Frenkel pair represent an oxygen vacancy and oxygen interstitial ion, the oxygen vacancy creating a conductive filament ion the dielectric layer. The second electrode is preferably comprised of Indium Tin Oxide ITO. The photo illumination is within the wavelength 300nm to 1500nm. The silica dielectric and ITO are transparent to light. The reduction in threshold due to light (photo) illumination varies from 0.1 to 0.5 V. The first electrode may comprise multiple strips. The switching resistor may be incorporated into an optical sensor. A method of operation is also included.
Patent GB-2554526-A (GB)
Title: Method for authenticating a user at a security device
Inventor: TIMO BRUDEREK
IPC: H04W12/06
Filed: 2017-08-02
Abstract: Respective first patterns are provided on authentication devices 13-16 capable of wireless transmission. Security device 10 searches for authentication devices and loads the first patterns into memory via a wireless connection. A second pattern is detected by detection device 11 such as a palm vein scanner and compared to the loaded first patterns. A user is authenticated when the second pattern matches a first. The patterns may comprise biometric data. The first patterns may be encrypted and digitally signed prior to transmission. Authentication of the user may also require verification of personal data by server 12, after which a comparison of the matching first and second patterns may be repeated. After verification, the detected second pattern may be deleted from memory. A loaded first pattern may be deleted from memory when the associated authentication device is out of range. The wireless connection may use Bluetooth (RTM) Low Energy. The authentication device token and the first pattern provide two-factor authentication, and manual presentation of the token in not required.
Patent GB-2555202-A (GB)
Title: Systems and method for alert and advisory broadcast
Inventor: GAR LUNG BETHUNE TONG
IPC: H04H60/35
Filed: 2017-08-15
Abstract: Warning and advisory broadcast systems and methods in which a station host broadcasts a radio signal 210 comprising an initialisation signal which includes a physical address, a terminal number, a group number and a dedicated frequency. A receiving terminal scans 220 a range of frequencies for the station hosts broadcasting frequency and tunes in to the RF signal when it is determined to include a radio signature. Then if an initialisation signal is determined 230 to be included in the radio signal a set up procedure is carried out. The initialisation procedure comprises matching the physical address with the receiving terminals location and if they are determined to match saving the terminal number, the group number and the dedicated frequency. The host station may broadcast an advisory signal comprising advisory verbiage and a group number or terminal number and the receiving terminal may broadcast the advisory verbiage if the group number or terminal number matches the stored group number or terminal number respectively. The receiving terminal may determine reception of radio signals at a last saved frequency and the dedicated frequency and await an advisory signal at that frequency if radio signals are received.