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Patent GB-2554850-A (GB)
Title: Conduit formation and use
Inventor: PHIL JOHNSON
IPC: F01N13/18
Filed: 2016-07-12
Abstract: A method, a guide apparatus and a selective catalytic reduction apparatus are provided. The method, comprises: heating foam material; using the guide apparatus 37 to cause the heated foam material to bend; forming a conduit, made at least in part from the foam material, by attaching at least a first edge of the foam material to at least a second edge of the foam material; and cooling the conduit following attachment of at least the first edge to at least the second edge. The conduit may be a thermally insulating tube that is used in the selective catalytic reduction apparatus. The guide apparatus may include a drive 36 and a plurality of guides 38-38d for shaping the strip foam material. The first guide 38a may comprise an outer support 40, an inner support 42 and a connector 44 for connecting the outer support 40 to the inner support 42. The inner support may hold a plurality of rollers 46a-46g in place. The inner support may be curved and is circular/ring-shaped. From the first guide 38a to the fourth guide 38d, the ring shape defined by the rollers becoming progressively smaller, as do the apertures 39a-39d. The method may further include cutting the foam material to form the first edge and/or the second edge. The first edge and/or the second edge may be cut to form a sloping edge. The foam material may be formed, at least in part, from one or more polyamides.
Patent GB-2555771-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for selecting sim card
Inventor: KIT WAI CHAU
IPC: H04W88/06
Filed: 2015-12-23
Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and systems for selecting at least one SIM card for data communication at a wireless communication device which is capable of housing a plurality of SIM cards. When a switching condition is satisfied, the wireless communication device selects a second SIM card group, and disconnects one or more connections established using any non-second group SIM card. Non-second group SIM cards are SIM cards that are not in the second SIM card group. A selected SIM card from the second SIM card group is then used for data communications. The steps are repeated until (i) the switching condition is no longer satisfied, (ii) no more SIM cards selected from the second SIM card group can be used for data communications or (iii) no more connection is made using non-second group SIM cards.
Patent GB-2555463-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for applying a coating to gemstones
Inventor: PETER STANLEY ROSE
IPC: B05D1/00
Filed: 2016-10-31
Abstract: An apparatus 10 for applying a coating to gemstones comprises a chuck 14 configured to retain a plurality of gemstones laterally displaced from and disposed around a rotation axis. There is a dispense aperture located in a dispense arm 16 configured to dispense a quantity of liquid onto a facet of each gemstone. A motor is configured to selectively spin the chuck about the rotation axis so that the gemstones orbit the rotation axis, such that the dispensed liquid forms a coating on the facet of each gemstone. A method of applying a coating to gemstones is also provided.
Patent GB-2556113-A (GB)
Title: Combinational electronic apparatus
Inventor: CHAO-CHIH HSU
IPC: G03B15/04
Filed: 2016-11-22
Abstract: An electronic apparatus has a connection assembly and an electronic module (30). The connection assembly has a first connection portion (24). The first connection portion (24) has a first connecting surface (241), a first buckle assembly (244), and afirst magnetic attraction element (243). The first buckle assembly (244) is disposed on the first connecting surface (241). The electronic module (30) is detachably connected with the connection assembly and has a second connection portion (32). The second connection portion (32) has a second connecting surface (321), a second buckle assembly (324), and a second magnetic attraction element (325). The second connecting surface (321) selectively abuts the first connecting surface (241). The second buckle assembly (244) is disposed on the second connecting surface (321) and is detachably engaged with the first buckle assembly (324).
Patent GB-2540909-A (GB)
Title: Outside air processor and air conditioner
Inventor: Hayato Horie
IPC: F24F7/08
Filed: 2014-05-14
Abstract: This outside air processor is provided with: a device body that has an inside air introduction part for introducing interior air from an interior, and a discharge port for discharging discharge air into the interior; a total heat exchanger that is provided in the device body, executes heat exchange of exterior air and interior air, and discharges the interior air which has been subjected to heat exchange as discharge air from the discharge port; and an opening/closing part that opens/closes a bypass passage that is provided in the device body and bypasses the inside air introduction part and discharge port.
Patent GB-2557932-A (GB)
Title: Shape memory alloy for umbilical termination
Inventor: ALAN DOBSON
IPC: F16L39/00
Filed: 2016-12-16
Abstract: A termination assembly for an umbilical 26 comprises a chamber 20 through which pass one or more tubes 24 extending from the umbilical 26, the chamber 20 containing a filler material, wherein at least one tube 24 is provided with an anchor 32 for securing the at least one tube 24 in the filler material, the anchor 32 comprising a shape memory material. A method of making a termination assembly for an umbilical 26 is also defined, comprising the steps of: (a) providing an anchor 32 for mounting onto one of a number of tubes 24, the anchor 32 comprising a shape memory material in a second phase and comprising an aperture which is in a second shape which the tube can pass through, (b) sliding the anchor onto the tube by passing the tube through the aperture, (c) allowing the shape memory alloy to undergo a phase change in which at least some of the second phase converts to a first phase such that the aperture returns towards a first shape which the tube cannot pass through, the anchor thereby gripping the tube, and (d) adding a filler material to the chamber. The shape memory material may be a Nickel-Titanium alloy (Nitinol) and may expand with a phase-change on cooling, thereafter contracting to grip the tube 24 when its temperature returns to ambient.
Patent GB-2544221-A (GB)
Title: On-board device, train, and signaling safety system
Inventor: KEIICHI KATSUTA
IPC: B61L23/30
Filed: 2015-05-18
Abstract: In a signaling safety system of a conventional technique, there has been room for improvement in reducing the time from when an on-board device of a preceding train has released the right of occupying a block until the following train can run in the block. An on-board device receives a telegraph and sends the telegraph to another device, said telegraph circulating through trains and trackside devices present in a route constituted by one or more blocks to which the occupation right of the train is set, and including block occupation right information enabling the setting of the right of occupying a block to one train. The telegraph includes block occupation right reservation information indicating a train to which the right of occupying a block is to be set next to a train to which the right of occupying the block has been set by the block occupation right information. The on-board device is configured so as to, in response to the release of the right of occupying a block set by the block occupation right information to the train on which the on-board device is mounted, rewrite the block occupation right information for the block so that the right of occupying the block is set to the train indicated by the block occupation right reservation information corresponding to the block.
Patent GB-2545599-A (GB)
Title: Deployable grille with fins for aircraft turbine engine thrust-reversal system
Inventor: JEREMY EDMOND FERT
IPC: F02K1/76
Filed: 2015-10-12
Abstract: In order to assist deployment, the invention relates to a deployable grille (32) with fins (44) for a thrust-reversal system (6) for an aircraft turbine engine. The grille can adopt a rest position and a deployed, active position in which the fins (44) are axially spaced further apart than in the rest position. At least between two fins (44), the grille comprises resilient return means (56) forcing the two fins (44) to move apart axially from one another.
Patent GB-2554987-A (GB)
Title: Supplemental power system for power over ethernet lighting luminaries
Inventor: Robert L Hick
IPC: H05B37/02
Filed: 2017-08-11
Abstract: A power and control module 6 for a Power over Ethernet (PoE) light emitting diode (LED) lighting system includes an input channel 24 for receiving PoE input power from a PoE switch, an output channel 26 for providing PoE output power to a plurality of LED light fixtures and a power transfer unit 27 coupled between the input channel and the output channel for providing the PoE input power and/or a secondary input power to the output channel as the PoE output power. A secondary power input unit 30, 42 selectively provides secondary power to the power transfer unit. A processor 40 controls the power transfer unit to adjust an amount of PoE input power and secondary input power to obtain the PoE output power. Secondary input power can be an emergency power source, such as an emergency mains input or a battery, during line power outages. Secondary input power could alternatively be a renewable energy power source used preferentially to the PoE input power when available.
Patent GB-2567798-A (GB)
Title: Verification method and system
Inventor: HASAN SHEIKH FARIDUL
IPC: G06K9/00
Filed: 2017-08-22
Abstract: Whether a biometric feature of a live human is present is determined using a camera (figure 1,106), capturing 202 visual data of a presented biometric feature, and transmitting 204 a signal towards the biometric feature. A sensor (figure 1, 108), is used for capturing 206 data related to a reflected signal from the presented biometric feature; and determining 208 whether the visual data and the reflected signal data relate to a biometric feature having realistic dimensions thereby to determine 210 that a live biometric feature is present. Verification of a user may be done on a smartphone (figure 1, 100) using a microphone to receive audio data. An ultrasound signal may be used for range finding and the microphone picks up reflected signals and analyses them to ensure that a picture is not used instead of a real face, for example.
Patent GB-2556422-A (GB)
Title: Oxidation catalyst FIR a diesel engine exhaust
Inventor: PAUL ANDERSEN
IPC: F01N3/10
Filed: 2017-09-22
Abstract: An oxidation catalyst for treating the exhaust gas produced by a diesel engine is disclosed. The oxidation catalyst comprises a washcoat region disposed on a substrate 1, wherein the washcoat region comprises a mixture of Platinum (Pt) supported on a first support material; and Ruthenium (Ru). The support material may comprise a refractory oxide such as alumina, silica, titania, zirconia, ceria or a mix or composite oxide thereof. The Ruthenium may be supported on the first support material or a second material, comprising either zirconia or titania. An exhaust system using the oxidation catalyst is also disclosed. The exhaust system may comprise an emissions control device such as a diesel particulate filter, a lean NOx trap, a lean NOx catalyst, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst, a diesel oxidation catalyst, a catalysed soot filter, a selective catalytic reduction filter catalyst, an ammonia slip catalyst or combination of two or more thereof. A vehicle and a method of treating exhaust gases are further disclosed which use either the exhaust system or the oxidation catalyst.
Patent GB-2559463-A (GB)
Title: Door mounted airbag assembly with concave surface
Inventor: HUBERT SZAWARSKI
IPC: B60R21/237
Filed: 2017-12-05
Abstract: An airbag 10 includes folds 12 with each fold having an apex 14 and limbs 16. The limbs extend from the apex to the limbs of an adjacent fold. A fastener 18 is fixed to the folds and releasably connects the folds to each other. There is also included a method of inflating an airbag with folds and a fastener connecting the folds. The next step is to inflate the airbag away from a door across the vehicle, and then inflating the airbag to a greater pressure to break the fastener and expand the airbag in a rearward direction.
Patent GB-2559075-A (GB)
Title: Mechatronic drivers in the cold end of a heat pump
Inventor: ERIK KAUPPI
IPC: F02G1/043
Filed: 2016-10-18
Abstract: Some heat pumps have displacers mechatronically-controlled via springs and coils acting upon a ferromagnetic plate. In some prior art heat pumps, the components are housed in hot parts of the heat pump and in others, the components are housed in a cold part of the heat pump, but the components are offset from a central axis of the heat pump. A heat pump with the mechatronic driver components collinear with a central axis of the heat pump has the components in a cold part of the heat pump.
Patent GB-2562395-A (GB)
Title: Blower and air conditioner employing same
Inventor: TAKAHIDE TADOKORO
IPC: F04D29/66
Filed: 2016-02-24
Abstract: In this blower, when a blade is viewed along an axis of rotation, the upstream end on the outer periphery of the blade is on the upstream side of the upstream end on the inner periphery of the blade, and the downstream end on the outer periphery of the blade is on the downstream side of the downstream end on the inner periphery of the blade. If θ is the angle between a reference line and a line segment joining points that internally divide, in the same ratio as one another in the axis of rotation, line segments joining the downstream end and the upstream end of each of the outer periphery and the inner periphery of the blade, and if the direction inclined toward the downstream side is positive, then θ changes from negative to positive at a duct portion.
Patent GB-2566594-A (GB)
Title: Ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic flaw detection apparatus and method
Inventor: Sou Kitazawa
IPC: G01N29/28
Filed: 2018-07-19
Abstract: An ultrasonic probe comprises an array sensor 400 which includes multiple oscillators 701 to generate an ultrasonic wave. A propagation member such as water 401 is disposed between the array sensor and test target 402 (steel) to propagate the ultrasonic wave. At least one reflection section 705a, 705b, reflects the ultrasonic wave 702f, 702d, reflected and returned from the surface of or the inside of the steel, and causes the ultrasonic wave to fall on any of the oscillator elements of the sensor array. The probe with reflective member improves the imaging of the target which may include curved weld 405 on the surface and an internal flaw 504. An ultrasonic image is generated from waves reflected from the reflective member 705 and also with direct waves not reflected from the member 705.
Patent GB-2579653-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to laser marking
Inventor: Tristan L Phillips
IPC: H04N1/60
Filed: 2018-12-10
Abstract: There is provided a method of calibrating a laser marking system 1 of the type operable to mark a substrate moving relative to the marking system at a substrate speed. The marking system includes a plurality of emitters 10, each emitter operable to emit light on to a substrate for marking. The emitted light is controlled in response to a variable marking setting. The method includes the steps of activating the emitters to mark a series of block images at a range of different marking settings and a range of different substrate speeds, determining the average optical density of each marked block, identifying the marking settings that correspond most closely to a selected optical density value for each substrate speed, and thereby determining a calibration relationship between marking setting and substrate speed. An apparatus and system operable to this method are also provided. There is also provided a method of determining fixed pulse duration and a laser marking system characterised by the emitter pulse duration being selected from a predetermined range of values defined by 1.2(d0/V) ≤ tp ≤ 1.5(d0/V); where tp is the emitter pulse duration, V is the substrate speed and d0 is the emitter spot diameter.
Patent GB-2583890-A (GB)
Title: Controller for an infotainment system of a vehicle
Inventor: DARIUS JOHN POTTEN-RAVENSHAD
IPC: B60K35/00
Filed: 2019-03-12
Abstract: A controller and method for controlling operation of a vehicle infotainment system (112, Fig.1), the infotainment system having one or more functions that are placed in an operable or non-operable mode in dependence on a state of the vehicle. When a first signal is received S404 from an input means located at a position within the vehicle remote from a driver, a second signal is output S406 to the infotainment system putting the one or more functions in the operable mode in dependence on the first signal. Functions may also be placed in a non-operable mode S410 based on the vehicle state. The state of the vehicle could indicate an activation level, specifically vehicle motion. The input means may be proximate to a passenger of the vehicle, and could be a switch mechanism or a weight sensor. Another sensing means, such as an imaging, weight or motion sensor, could be incorporated to provide a further signal indicating that a passenger is not present. This could place the infotainment functions in the non-operable mode. The functions may include connectivity of a user device to the infotainment system via a wireless communications protocol.
Patent GB-2583483-A (GB)
Title: Image capture and display system
Inventor: ALEXANDER COLE
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2019-04-29
Abstract: A system, such as a driver assistance system, arranged to form images of outside a vehicle for viewing from an eye box region within the vehicle. The system comprises an image capture device 780, a picture generating unit 795 and an optical element 740. The image capture device is arranged to be mounted to the vehicle. The image capture device is arranged to capture images outside the vehicle. The optical element is disposed in front of a replay plane 716. The optical element has a focal length. The distance 690 between the replay plane and the optical element is less that the focal length of the optical element such that the optical element forms a virtual image of each picture for viewing from the eye box region. The picture generating unit may be a holographic projector. The holographic projector may be arranged to form pictures on a replay plane. Each picture may correspond to an image captured by the image capture device.
Patent GB-2570078-A (GB)
Title: Chemical injection with subsea production flow boost pump
Inventor: LANCE PORTMAN
IPC: E21B43/16
Filed: 2017-09-28
Abstract: subsea well production system includes a subsea boost pump (33) coupled with a subsea tree conduit (19) having a subsea tree conduit valve (29). boost pump outlet conduit (43) connects between a discharge (41) of the boost pump and an outlet flow line (51). recirculation line (57) extends from the boost pump outlet conduit to the subsea tree conduit. chemical injection line (65) having a chemical source valve (67) extends from a chemical injection source (63) and is connected to the subsea tree conduit at a point between the subsea tree conduit valve and the intake of the boost pump. During production flow boosting, the boost pump pumps well fluid. During chemical injection, the boost pump pumps chemicals into the subsea tree (11).
Patent GB-2573253-A (GB)
Title: Golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads
Inventor: ROBERT R PARSONS
IPC: A63B60/00
Filed: 2017-10-04
Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a hollow body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a bottom portion, a top portion with a crown portion having an opening, and a cover portion configured to couple to the crown portion to cover the opening. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
Patent GB-2573481-A (GB)
Title: Performance enhancing aspirator apparatus
Inventor: JAY MADHAVDAS BHIMANI
IPC: F02C7/042
Filed: 2017-04-24
Abstract: A performance enhancing aspirator apparatus for improving efficiency of a gas turbine by drawing in surplus air comprises attachment members and a substantially funnel shaped casing. The attachment members are positioned radially on an exterior surface of the gas turbine. The substantially funnel shaped casing is fixedly attached to the exterior surface of the gas turbine via the attachment members. The substantially funnel shaped casing and the gas turbine define a converging duct therebetween. The converging duct creates a very low-pressure region proximal to a nozzle of the gas turbine, thereby drawing in surplus air for improving efficiency of the gas turbine.
Patent GB-2590960-A (GB)
Title: Hybrid vehicle speed and torque control
Inventor: RODOLFO OLIVEIRA JACCOUD
IPC: B60W20/40
Filed: 2020-01-09
Abstract: A method and control system for controlling an engine 202 and a first electric traction motor 216 of a vehicle, comprising: receiving a signal indicative of a requirement to increase engine speed at least to an engine idle speed (e.g. to start the engine to transition from electric vehicle EV mode to hybrid HEV mode); and controlling the motor 216 to provide positive torque to increase the engine speed towards the engine idle speed. The vehicle may be a through-the-road parallel hybrid with a second electric traction motor 212 providing drive to a different set of wheels. The first motor may be a belt integrated starter generator, an engine accessory drive motor generator or a crankshaft integrated motor generator, e.g. providing traction by boosting output torque of the engine. There may also be a pinion starter motor 206 to start the engine when the target engine speed is below engine idle speed, e.g. approximately 300-1500 rpm.
Patent GB-2592902-A (GB)
Title: A gasket
Inventor: PHILIP DAYTON PARRY
IPC: E06B7/22
Filed: 2020-01-27
Abstract: A gasket 100 for a window frame assembly (312 fig.6) comprises at least a first portion 102a and second portion 102b connected together by a region of reduced cross-sectional area 104a so as to act as a hinge, at least part of the first portion is arranged to be positioned between a glazing unit and a first window frame member (312a fig.6) and at least part of the second portion is arranged to be interposed between the glazing unit and a second window frame member (312b fig.6) which is at a non-zero angle to the first window frame member. The gasket may comprise four portions. Also discloses is a composite gasket (418 fig.4) comprising two or more of the aforementioned gaskets connected along an edge by a comparatively weaker portion 120 to allow separation.
Patent GB-2593504-A (GB)
Title: Liquid crystal cells
Inventor: JAN JONGMAN
IPC: G02F1/1333
Filed: 2020-03-25
Abstract: A device comprising a liquid crystal cell with LC material 6 between two opposing surfaces of two components 2, 4, wherein the opposing surfaces intermesh in at least one region of the cell. Preferably the opposing surfaces intermesh in at least one region of an active area of the LC cell, and have intermeshing structures 14, 20, defined by patterned layers that also define spacer structures for the liquid crystal cell. Also claimed is a method of producing the device by squeezing a controlled volume of the LC material between the two opposing surfaces. The intermeshing structures comprise first structures defined by one of the two half-cell components and second structures on the other of the two half-cell components. The starting height of the first spacer structures is greater than the starting height of the second spacer structures.