| University of Ulster Patent applications |
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| 20120090605 | MEDICATION DELIVERY DEVICE - A medication delivery device for delivering a medicament by inhalation, said device comprising a housing ( | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120059244 | SKIN MARKER - A skin marker for providing a reference point for a plurality of different medical imaging procedures, said marker incorporating one or more substances having one or more of radiance and/or hydration and/or radiopaque and/or radio luminescent and/or radioactive properties for detection by X-ray and/or Computer Tomography (CT) and/or MRI and/or Ultrasonic scanning processes and/or Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and one or more markings recognisable by an optical imaging process such as 3D surface scanning. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120027992 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURE OF A COMPOSITE CONCRETE ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing a composite concrete article comprising forming a textile structure, removing material from regions of the textile structure to create voids in the textile structure and incorporating the textile structure into a body of wet uncured concrete such that the concrete flows into the voids created in the textile structure, embedding the textile structure into the concrete, whereby the textile structure defines at least a portion of a surface of the cured concrete article. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20110311042 | ENCRYPTION METHOD - There is described a method of encrypting a set of 2D input data, preferably image data. The method comprises obtaining the hash value of a password and re-sizing the hash value to fir the size of the 2D input data. The re-sized data is transformed using an irreversible transform, and the output of the transform is then used to encode the 2D data. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110299771 | METHOD FOR SKIN TONE DETECTION - There is described a method for detecting the presence of skin tone in an image. A gray scale representation of a pixel within the image is provided. Next, a red chrominance independent representation for is provided for the pixel. Then, the two representations are analysed to determine whether a difference in value between the representations corresponds with a the presence of a skin tone value. The present invention provides a rapid skin tone detection classifier particularly useful for real time applications. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110277746 | SOLAR WATER HEATER - The present invention provides a solar water heating apparatus which includes concentric inner and outer vessels defining an annular cavity therebetween, within which cavity a phase change material is located, and which is vaporised when solar radiation is incident on the outer vessel, in order to transfer heat to a water store contained in the inner vessel, this water store being fed fresh unheated water while the heated water is extracted therefrom for domestic or other purposes. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110184110 | POWDER COATING COMPOSITION - The present invention provides a powder coating composition, and in particular a corrosion protection enhanced high temperature resistant powder coating which, when exposed to high temperature, withstands adhesion failure or cracking, often called mud cracking, which is due to a mismatch in thermal coefficients between the coating and the substrate, the powder coating composition comprising a corrosion inhibitor and reinforcing fibres which increases the tensile modulus, elongation and tensile strength of the composition, allowing the reinforced powder coating to resist the above described cracking at elevated temperatures. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110162429 | METHOD FOR FORMING A SECTOR FOR A NACELLE LIP SKIN - A method of forming a sector for a nacelle lip skin from a sheet metal blank comprising the steps of: providing an arcuate or annular punch ( | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110015697 | ELECTRICAL WOUND HEALING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A wound healing system comprising an array of electrodes incorporated in a device for applying an electrical signal to a wound. The electrodes are configurable to form at least one composite electrode and the electrical signal is applied to the wound via the composite electrode(s). The system preferably includes means for determining the state of the wound, the electrode composition of the composite electrode(s) depending on the determined state of the wound. Advantageously, the electrode composition of the composite electrode(s) is adjustable in response to changes in the determined state of the wound. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20090313195 | Artificial neural network architecture - An artificial neural network apparatus comprising an array of neural units, each comprising a router, at least one neuron device and at least one synapse unit. The routers of respective neural units communicate with one another using data packets. The synapse units receive and create analogue signals, the routers converting these signals from or into packet form for communication between neural units. The use of routers in this way simplifies the required interconnectivity between neural units in the array and so facilitates the creation of large artificial neural networks. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090209832 | TUBE MONITORING SYSTEM - A system for monitoring the location of a tube, especially a feeding tube. The system comprises an antenna located at an outlet of the tube; a wireless transmitter coupled to the antenna; and a sensor co-located with the antenna and arranged to generate an output which indicates at least one sensed characteristic, for example, pH level, of the tube's environment. The system includes a remote receiver device for receiving wireless signals, the receiver device including means for determining the strength of said received wireless signal, and means for determining said sensor output from said received wireless signal. | 08-20-2009 |
