Darnell
David Trevor Darnell, Great Yarmouth GB
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20090151959 | QUICK LOCK WIRELINE VALVE/BLOW-OUT PREVENTOR AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME - A blow out preventor (BOP) apparatus is disclosed that includes a BOP body including a quick connection system including one female connector or a plurality of female connectors, disposed in each actuator receiving aperture, each female connector having a female engaging profile and one male connector or a plurality of male connectors, disposed on an outer surface of an actuator cylinder, one for each female connector, each male connector having a male engaging profile, where the male engaging profile is adapted to register with the female engaging profile upon insertion of an actuator into its corresponding receiving aperture and upon rotation of the actuator through a rotational angle, the male profile engages the female profile in at least one contacting zone, and where the rotational angle depends on the profiles. | 06-18-2009 |
20110225789 | CONNECTOR - A connector comprises a male component, a female component configured to receive an end portion of the male component, and a rotatable collet mounted on the male component. The collet and the female component comprise respective complementary inter-engaging lugs configured to secure the male and female components together in an engaged position. A latch is provided on the collet to lock the male and female components together. | 09-22-2011 |
Ed Darnell, Middlesex GB
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20100030713 | CONTENT ENGINE - There is described a computer system for determining the relevance of stored content to particular users and for facilitating the provision of relevant content to individual users. The computer system comprises a content engine comprising user profile information, representative of interests and/or attributes of individual users, and a processor for determining a correlation between content and said user profile information to determine content most relevant to a particular user. | 02-04-2010 |
Ian Philip Darnell, Eindhoven NL
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20130190686 | FUNNEL FOR A BREAST PUMP - The present invention relates to a funnel for a breast pump. Milk expressed from a user's nipple is known to pool at a user's breast. The funnel for a breast pump according to the present invention comprises a breast receiving portion ( | 07-25-2013 |
Ian Philip Darnell, Cambridge GB
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20130245548 | BREAST PUMP - The present invention relates to a breast pump. The breast pump comprises a main body ( | 09-19-2013 |
20140052057 | BREAST PUMP - The present invention relates to a breast pump operable to generate a negative pressure comprising a funnel ( | 02-20-2014 |
Katherine Clare Darnell, Berkshire GB
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20090004360 | Taste Potentiator Compositions in Oral Delivery Systems - The present invention relates to edible orally delivered products, such as beverages, food products, confectioneries and chewing gum, which provide an enhanced perception of an active substance, such as a sweetener. More specifically, some embodiments provide potentiator compositions, which include at least one active substance and at least one sweetness modifier. The sweetness modifier may increase sucrose equivalence, increase the perception of sweet flavor upon consumption, decrease the perception of an aftertaste, or extend the time periods of sweetness onset, sweetness peak or sweetness decay. | 01-01-2009 |
Paul Darnell, Leamington Spa GB
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20150073679 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN POWERTRAIN CONTROL FUNCTIONS - A system and method for use with a vehicle to provide a vehicle launch assist (VLA) function that reduces wheel slip at lower speeds and to provide a fraction control (TC) function that reduces wheel slip at higher speeds. Each function affects operation of one or more vehicle subsystems that control at least one powertrain parameter. The VLA and TC functions operate in response to a driver accelerator request to generate a drive signal that controls torque delivered to at least one driven vehicle wheel. The VLA function generates the drive signal at a first value that limits the torque to below a requested torque value representing the driver accelerator request. The TC function generates the drive signal at a second value that limits the torque to below the requested torque value. And the control system outputs a powertrain drive signal based on the lesser of first and second values. | 03-12-2015 |
Paul Darnell, Royal Leamington Spa GB
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20140336895 | ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF MOTOR VEHICLE POWERTRAIN - A method and system is disclosed for blending between different torque maps of a vehicle in a smooth and progressive manner. Blending is delayed if the vehicle driver cannot detect that blending is taking place, for example when the difference between a source map and target map is below a predetermined threshold. | 11-13-2014 |
20140358393 | ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF MOTOR VEHICLE POWERTRAIN - A method and system is disclosed for blending between torque maps of a source of propulsion of a vehicle. Embodiments of the present invention are particularly applicable to automatic selection of an alternative torque map in response to a change of vehicle operating condition, for example a change of terrain. Blending according to embodiments of the present invention may substantially avoid a step change in response of the source of propulsion as accelerator position is changed. | 12-04-2014 |
20140372005 | ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF MOTOR VEHICLE POWERTRAIN - A method and system is disclosed for blending between different torque maps of a vehicle so that step changes of torque output are avoided as accelerator pedal position is changed. The invention provides different blending rates so as to reduce the blending time if driver demand is in the direction of torque change. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372012 | ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF MOTOR VEHICLE POWERTRAIN - Embodiments of the present invention provide a vehicle having different operating modes, and for each such mode a different characteristic of output torque and accelerator pedal position. The rise of output torque in response to a propulsion request is more or less delayed according to the instant operating mode. The invention provides for blending of the response to a propulsion request so that the delay is progressively varied between a source and target operating mode. | 12-18-2014 |
Paul Darnell, Coventry GB
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20150027407 | Altitude Compensation for Internal Combustion Engine - In order to address turbo lag at altitude, a vehicle boosts output torque of an internal combustion engine with electric motor torque generated from a battery. The residual charge of the battery is increased at altitude to provide a sufficient reserve for the corresponding increase in turbo lag. The invention is typically applied to a parallel hybrid vehicle. | 01-29-2015 |
Stephen Darnell, Flackwell Heath GB
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20120278581 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT - A computer system which includes a plurality of threads and a garbage collector that traces memory objects and identifies memory objects according to a three-color abstraction. The computer system also includes two methods of deleting compiled code in a self-modifying multi-threaded computer system. The computer system also utilizes a method of handling links between fragments of code in a self-modifying multi-threaded computer system. The computer system also handles patches between two pieces of code. | 11-01-2012 |