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Patent GB-2494576-A (GB)
Title: A method of producing granulated ITO powder
Inventor: KING CHARLES EDMUND
IPC: C01G15/00
Filed: 2008-05-12
Abstract: A method of producing granulated ITO (indium tin oxide) powder for use in the manufacture of ITO sputtering targets comprises: burning in air (preferably at 800-1200Â°C) an intimate mixture of ITO powder and chloride ions present as InCl3 (indium chloride) and SnCl4 (tin chloride), wherein the concentration of InCl3 and SnCl4 is between 1 ppm and 100 ppm. The intimate mixture may be produced by precipitating indium oxide and tin oxide in chloride media, filtering the precipitate and washing it so that not all the chloride ions are removed. The granulated ITO powder may be formulated into a slurry; the slurry may include a phosphorus compound (e.g. phosphoric acid, a phosphorus oxide, indium phosphate, tin phosphate or phosphorus pentoxide).
Patent GB-2498847-A (GB)
Title: Polycrystalline diamond composite compact elements and methods of making
Inventor: KONYASHIN IGOR YURIEVICH
IPC: B22F7/06
Filed: 2012-12-13
Abstract: A polycrystalline diamond composite compact element comprises a cemented carbide substrate bonded to a body of polycrystalline diamond material along an interface, the substrate comprising between 70 and 90 weight percent of tungsten carbide particles bonded together by a binder material comprising an alloy of 10 - 50 weight percent Ni, 0.1 - 10 weight percent Cr and the remainder comprising Co, wherein fewer than 17 percent of the carbide particles have a grain size of equal to or less than 0.3 microns, between about 20 and 28 percent have a size of 0.3 - 0.5 microns, between 42 and 56 percent have a size of 0.5 - 1 micron and less than 12 percent have a size of greater than 1 micron, and the mean grain size is 0.6 +/- 0.2 microns. Also disclosed is a method of making a cemented carbide body comprising the steps of providing tungsten carbide powder having a mean equivalent circle diameter of 0.2 - 0.6 microns, milling the powder with binder material comprising Co, Ni and Cr or chromium carbides, compacting the blended powder to form a green body and sintering the green body.
Patent GB-2513164-A (GB)
Title: Container
Inventor: RUSHFORTH DAVID
IPC: B65D51/28
Filed: 2013-04-18
Abstract: Container 1, having body 3 and lid 4, defining first chamber 7 when lid 4 is closed, and comprising substance carrier 11 with seal 12. Seal 12 prevents emission from substance carrier 11 until removal of seal 12. Seal 12 may be re-closable. Substance carrier 11 may be attached to a surface of container 1. Container 1 may be used to hold smokeless tobacco products, such as chewing tobacco, snus or snuff. Substance carrier 11 may hold a sensate or moisturising substance able to impart organoleptic properties such as scent and flavour, or moisture, to a product in chamber 7. Further independent claims disclose an element extending across the open end of the body 3 having permeable layers and a substance carrier, and further a laminate dividing wall containing a substance carrier and dividing the chamber into two, having an active heat patch with exothermic properties.
Patent GB-2516848-A (GB)
Title: Assigning location information to wireless local area network access points
Inventor: WIROLA LAURI AARNE JOHANNES
IPC: H04W88/08
Filed: 2013-08-01
Abstract: An apparatus receives a message including results of measurements on signals of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access point (AP). The apparatus determines as a first condition whether the message comprises no indication of a position obtained in a non-cellular based positioning and/or no information enabling a non-cell based positioning. The apparatus determines as a second condition whether the message comprises in addition results of measurements on signals of at least one cell of a cellular communications network. If the conditions are met, the apparatus determines a position based on the results of measurements on signals of the at least one cell of a cellular communications network and causes storage of location information that is based on the determined position in a memory for the WLAN access point, in case no location information has previously been stored in the memory for the WLAN access point.
Patent GB-2507222-A (GB)
Title: A modular system for installing a pipeline with pipe section racks and conveyor means
Inventor: COWIE ALASDAIR
IPC: B63B35/03
Filed: 2013-05-10
Abstract: The invention provides a modular system for use in an offshore pipelay operation, an apparatus and a method of use. The system 10 comprises a plurality of pipe storage modules 20, each comprising a rack for accommodating a plurality of pipe sections (3, Fig 4) and a conveyor assembly (130, Fig 4) for receiving pipe sections from the rack and then moving the pipe sections to a conveyor assembly of an adjacent pipe module. Pipe sections are then moved to an assembly line 54 and connected to form a pipeline, before being laid to a subsea location. A vessel comprising the modular system installed on its deck is also described.
Patent GB-2506568-A (GB)
Title: Advanced captcha using images in sequence
Inventor: TERRY MATTHEW ADAM
IPC: G06F21/36
Filed: 2012-07-30
Abstract: A CAPTCHA challenge tool for determining if a user of a computer is a human or an automated program. The tool presents a set of images. At least a portion of the set of images suggests a chronological sequence when organized correctly. The tool receives a suggested order from the user of the computer. If the suggested order matches the correct order, the tool assumes that the user is a human, if the suggested order does not match the correct order, the tool assumes the user is an automated program.
Patent GB-2513952-A (GB)
Title: Method of optimization of flow control valves and inflow control devices in a single well or a group of wells
Inventor: RASHID KASHIF
IPC: G05D7/06
Filed: 2014-02-21
Abstract: A method and an apparatus for managing a subterranean formation in an oilfield including collecting information about a flow control valve in a wellbore traversing the formation, adjusting the valve in response to the information wherein the adjusting includes a Newton method, a pattern search method, or a proxy-optimization method. In some embodiments, adjusting may comprise changing the effective cross sectional area of the valve and the information may comprise data on flow through the valve. A method and an apparatus for managing a subterranean formation including measuring information about an inflow control valve in a wellbore traversing the reservoir and controlling the valve, wherein the control includes a direct-continuous approach or a pseudo-index approach.
Patent GB-2513451-A (GB)
Title: Food hygiene method and food product
Inventor: HALL JEREMY
IPC: A23B4/07
Filed: 2011-06-07
Abstract: A process is described for reducing the number of viable microbes, particularly Campylobacter species, present on the surface of meat, especially poultry. The process comprises the steps of rapidly cooling the surface membrane of a contaminated meat item to a given temperature, preferably between -5 and 2Â°C, and allowing the membrane to warm to a second temperature higher than the first temperature and preferably below 4Â°C. The process is sufficient to reduce the number of viable bacteria, whilst at the same time retaining in the muscle meat the organoleptic and nutritional qualities of fresh meat as monitored by the level of Î²-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (HADH) activity in the muscle tissue. The cooling may be achieved by exposure to a cryogen.
Patent GB-2511939-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for locating seismic events
Inventor: KAHN DANIEL S
IPC: G01V1/28
Filed: 2014-03-12
Abstract: Embodiments of locating seismic events are disclosed. In one embodiment, a single difference seismic locator i.e. an absolute locator and a reverse double difference seismic locator i.e. a relative locator are combined into a combined system of equations, and the combined system of equations is solved to determine a location of the seismic event in substantially real time relative to the seismic event. The combined system of equations may be weighted such that the determined location of the seismic event is partially influenced by the single difference seismic locator and partially influenced by the reverse double difference seismic locator. In another embodiment, a plurality of picked arrival times corresponding to a seismic event are received at a plurality of sensor locations, a first system of equations corresponding to a plurality of calculated travel times derived from an estimated velocity model and a second system of equations corresponding to relative difference between a plurality of picked arrival times and calculated travel times are solved simultaneously to determine the location of a seismic event. In an embodiment, a graphical representation of the seismic event is displayed that varies in time based on an uncertainty associated with the location of the seismic event.
Patent GB-2524282-A (GB)
Title: Automatic data transfer
Inventor: JUDGE EDWARD W
IPC: G07B15/00
Filed: 2014-03-19
Abstract: A computer-implemented method for requesting a transfer of data, comprising: transmitting a first request for transfer of data in response to the use of a user device; determining that the first request for the transfer of data has been declined; detecting an event that indicates that the transfer of data in response to the use of the user device can be accepted; and transmitting a second request for the transfer of data in dependence on detecting that the event has occurred. The user device may be at a standard issue payment card, mobile telephone, sticker, watch or key fob and may be capable of contactless payment. The preferred embodiment comprises a transit agency 101, e.g. metropolitan subway utilising the method for the recovery of the fare of a completed journey where the initial request for funds by the acquiring authority 102 was declined by the issuing authority of the payment card 104. The cardholder is permitted travel at time of request without payment; however the data transfer system 103 monitors activity on the bank account associated with the card such that when activity suggests that the account has sufficient funds, the subsequent request for payment is transmitted only when it will be fulfilled.
Patent GB-2528627-A (GB)
Title: Improved lighting apparatus
Inventor: JOHNSON ANDREW
IPC: F21S8/02
Filed: 2014-03-28
Abstract: A downlight assembly 2 comprises a light source 4, a heat sink 8 located at a first side of the light source, a driver 10 for the light source located at the first side of the light source, and a lens 22 located to a second side of the light source 4. The downlight assembly 2 further incorporates a charge indicator 40 located behind a front face of the lens 22. The charge indicator 40 is seated against a rear surface of the lens.
Patent GB-2516159-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for broadband over power line multiple interface devices and systems
Inventor: LEE DONALD
IPC: H04L12/40
Filed: 2014-05-13
Abstract: An aircraft systems interface unit 332 includes a multiplexer and a broadband over power line (BPL) modem 310. The multiplexer includes a plurality of inputs and an output for outputting data received through the plurality of inputs. Each input is configured for connection to at least one aircraft data bus 334. The BPL modem 310 is coupled to the output of the multiplexer and configured to transmit data received from the multiplexer over a power line 330. An aircraft bus extension system 300 may comprise, at a first location, a first BPL modem 310 to encode data received from the multiplexer to Ethernet packets for transmission over the power line 330 and, at a second location, a BPL modem 314 to receive and decode the Ethernet packets transmitted over the power line 330. A second multiplexer may also de-multiplex the received data to ground test equipment 304 through a plurality of interfaces.
Patent GB-2517285-A (GB)
Title: Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture
Inventor: LOSEE PETER ALMERN
IPC: H01L29/16
Filed: 2014-07-01
Abstract: Â A semiconductor layer 120, which may comprise silicon carbide, wherein the semiconductor layer comprises a first region 121 doped with a first dopant type. The method further includes implanting the semiconductor layer 120 with a second dopant type using a single implantation mask 130 and a substantially similar implantation dose 140 to form a second region 122 and a junction termination extension (JTE) 124 in the semiconductor layer, wherein the implantation dose is in a range from about 2 x 10Â¹Â³ cmË‰ Â² to about 12 x 10Â¹Â³ cmË‰ Â².Â  The device maybe a MOSFET or IGBT. The mask 130 may comprise a plurality of windows such that the doping concentration varies laterally in a direction away from a primary blocking junction.
Patent GB-2512248-A (GB)
Title: Refrigerated vapor recovery system
Inventor: HILLIARD HENRY T JR
IPC: B01D1/30
Filed: 2013-03-20
Abstract: Volatile vapors are removed from a storage vessel by establishing a flow of a stream of volatile vapors from the storage vessel and directing the vapor stream through a heat exchange module for condensing a portion of the vapors in the stream flowing through a cooled heat exchange condensers in the heat exchange module. The uncondensed vapors in the vapor stream are then directed to a carbon adsorption module including a pair of carbon adsorption units. The vapor recovery system also provides a means of desorbing a carbon adsorption unit that approaches its capacity for adsorbing volatile organic molecules and recycling the desorbed vapor stream through a cooled heat exchange condenser to convert the volatile organic material into a liquid state that may be sold as a product or utilized as a raw material rather than being combusted or otherwise disposed of in the atmosphere.
Patent GB-2530340-A (GB)
Title: Liquid injector
Inventor: BARENTHIN VOLKER
IPC: G01N35/10
Filed: 2014-09-22
Abstract: An assembly for dispensing a liquid within an automated analyser system, the assembly comprising an injector body 20, at least one valve (23; fig 6a) in a valve block 30, and at least one sensor in a sensor portion 40 for sensing a property of the liquid. Preferably, the injector body comprises the sensor portion. The at least one sensor may be one of a flow sensor, a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, or a conductivity sensor. The injector body further comprises an outlet nozzle 22 and a supply port (21; fig 6a) which is connectable to a pump. Ideally, the supply port is connected to the outlet nozzle via a liquid channel wherein the at least one valve resides inside the channel and the at least one sensor is in fluid contact with the channel. Electrical lines 31, 43 may connect the at least one valve and sensor to a power supply. Ideally, the assembly is manufactured in a single piece. The assembly may further comprise means 11, 11a for attachment to a dispensing portion of an automatic analyst system.
Patent GB-2522294-A (GB)
Title: Communication method and system
Inventor: CARISS BENJAMIN JOSEPH
IPC: H04W4/80
Filed: 2014-09-26
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for providing context-sensitive information to a mobile device, particular location-based information or the like. A tag attached to a moveable object or a mobile device passively transmits a unique identifier. A mobile device receives the unique identifier and determines a measure of location of the mobile device and/or tag. A server provides information for display on the mobile device based on both the unique identifier and the measure of location. The user opens an app on the mobile device which presents a list of nearby tags for selection. If a tag is selected then the app will launch an associated URL received from the server. The tag may be attached to an advertisement poster on a bus and the context-sensitive information provided to the mobile device is changed based on the location of the bus along its route.
Patent GB-2523869-A (GB)
Title: Representation of unstructured grids
Inventor: WAKEFIELD MARK
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2014-10-23
Abstract: A computer implemented method comprising receiving an unstructured grid of a multi-dimensional region, such as one representing seismic data; partitioning at least a portion of the unstructured grid into subdomains based at least in part on a cell number criterion; generating a hierarchical representation of the at least a portion of the unstructured grid that includes the subdomains and the cells; indexing cells in the subdomains based at least in part on the cell number criterion to define a data structure, preferably using a space filling curve such as a Z-order, Peano, Hilbert, Moore or Gosper curve ; and assigning respective property values, such as water saturation, to respective indexed cells for at least a portion of the data structure.
Patent GB-2533085-A (GB)
Title: Gasket removal tool
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM OSBORNE
IPC: B25B27/00
Filed: 2014-12-08
Abstract: A manually operated tool constructed to remove lodged gasket rings from flange faces. The tool is of a lever type configured with gripping teeth 2, 4 at a distal end of a shaft to grip both the outside and inside of the gasket ring when positioned inside a channelled groove 3 in the shaft to allow the gasket ring to sit inside the tool whilst being gripped by the upper and lower sets of teeth. The tool preferably at the other end of the shaft has an area 5 to allow extra applied force such as a hammer blow if required. One side of the tool 6 is coated to prevent damage to the flange face where the lodged gasket resides.
Patent GB-2533102-A (GB)
Title: Additive manufacturing
Inventor: JAGJIT SIDHU
IPC: B33Y30/00
Filed: 2014-12-09
Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming an object by additive layer manufacturing are disclosed. The method comprises: a) applying, by a heat source 4, heat to a portion of a surface of a workpiece 1 sufficient to melt the portion; b) adding material to the melted portion and moving the heat source 4 relative to the workpiece 1 whereby progressively to form a layer of material 10 on the workpiece 1; c) cooling the formed layer 10 to bring at least part of the layer 10 to a state of crystallisation, there producing a modified workpiece; d) peening, using a plurality of independently controllable impact treatment devices 7, the modified workpiece so as to plastically deform the cooled at least part of the layer 10; and repeating steps a) to d) as required to form the object. Preferably, the impact treatment devices comprise hydraulic impact hammers, which may be arranged to impact on adjacent surfaces (30, 32; fig 3) of a workpiece 1 so as to limit sideways deformation of the workpiece 1.
Patent GB-2517883-A (GB)
Title: Light conversion light-emitting device with enhanced luminescence efficiency using anisotropic metal nanoparticles
Inventor: KIM KI SE
IPC: H01L33/50
Filed: 2013-11-07
Abstract: The present invention relates to a light-emitting device, which controls two or more types of surface plasmon resonance bands of anisotropic metal nanoparticles to be formed in the near ultraviolet ray area and the visible light area to optimize the overlapping with the wavelength of near ultraviolet rays or a blue light source and the absorption wavelength and emission wavelength of a light-emitting material, thereby achieving both excitation enhancement and emission enhancement of the light-emitting material to improve the light-emitting efficiency. Further, the present invention relates to a light-emitting device, which controls each of two or more types of surface plasmon resonance bands of anisotropic metal nanoparticles to overlap with the absorption and emission wavelengths of two or more kinds of light-emitting materials having different emission wavelengths, thereby achieving simultaneous emission enhancement of two or more types of light-emitting materials to improve the color purity and the luminance.
Patent GB-2537116-A (GB)
Title: Digitising an analog audio signal
Inventor: ANDREW PAUL GEORGE RANDALL
IPC: H04R3/04
Filed: 2015-04-02
Abstract: Digitising of analogue audio signals uses an input transducer for producing an analogue input audio signal and an input stage 209 which has an adjustable input impedance. A plurality of adjustable gain stages 207 are provided before an input signal is supplied to an analogue to digital converter 215. A control processor 203 presents a graphical interface to a user which may have a touch sensitive screen 213 from which transducer-related data is manually selected. The control processor 203 includes program instructions to determine appropriate adjustments to the adjustable input impedance and the adjustable gain stages in response to the manually selected data. These adjustments are made by the activation of relay devices activated by the control processor 203. The analogue signal may be derived from a vinyl record and the transducer may be a moving magnet or coil cartridge. The adjustable input impedance may include adjustable capacitance.
Patent GB-2531415-A (GB)
Title: An alarm device drive circuit
Inventor: FLYNN FERGUS
IPC: H02M7/217
Filed: 2015-08-27
Abstract: An electronic device drive circuit has a power supply 1 with mains terminals 11, 12, a first rectifier CR2 feeding a positive rail 5 and a second rectifier CR18 feeding a negative rail 4. A controller uses an inductor L2 to drive negative current from the mains onto the positive rail. The controller is arranged to cause negative current to flow through the inductor from the negative rail when additional power is required for activities such as RF transmission. The controller may comprise control switches QP19a, QP19b arranged to receive a square wave for starting and stopping negative current flow. The electronic device may be an alarm device such as a smoke, heat fire or carbon monoxide alarm. The controller may be adapted to not drive said negative current during device standby, and cause said negative current if the device is in alarm mode and/or communicating with a radiation transmitter.
Patent GB-2531420-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for managing and configuring field devices in an automation installation
Inventor: WAGENER DIRK
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 2015-09-04
Abstract: A method and a device for managing and configuring field devices in an automation installation with a configuration tool 2 which is designed to physically detect a field device in the automation installation, to logically incorporate it into the automation installation and to configure it in the automation installation, the configuration tool resorting for this purpose to a predefined first field-device-specific information packet 1 which at least partially describes the functions and data of the field device and for this purpose has a predetermined set of predefined graphical elements 10. The configuration tool has a set of graphical elements 20, corresponding to a predefined graphical element of the fieldÂ­ device-specific information packet, the functionality and appearance of the graphical elements 20 of the configuration tool being able to be freely defined, and that the configuration tool is designed to extract the predefined graphical elements from the field-device-specific information packet and to replace them with graphical elements of configuration tool. The graphical elements of the configuration tool may be linked to functionalities and may be retrieved from a data storage medium.