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Blackburn, GB
Andrew Blackburn, Devon GB
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| 20090038632 | Porous Carbon Materials and Smoking Articles and Smoke Filters Therefor Incorporating Such Materials - A porous carbon material suitable for incorporation in smoke filters for cigarettes has a BET surface area of at least 800 m | 02-12-2009 |
Andrew John Blackburn, Winchester GB
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| 20100029795 | Porous carbons - A method is provided for making mesoporous resin. It comprises: | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100035058 | Porous carbons - A method is provided for making mesoporous resin. It comprises: (a) providing a nucleophilic component which comprises a phenolic compound or a phenol condensation prepolymer optionally with one or more modifying reagents selected from hydroquinone, resorcinol, urea, aromatic amines and heteroaromatic amines; (b) dissolving the nucleophilic component in a pore former selected from the group consisting of a diol, a diol ether, a cyclic ester, a substituted cyclic ester, a substituted linear amide, a substituted cyclic amide, an amino alcohol and a mixture of any of the above with water, together with at least one electrophilic cross-linking agent selected from the group consisting of formaldehyde, paraformaldehyde, furfural and hexamethylene tetramine; and (c) condensing the nucleophilic component and the electrophilic cross-linking agent in the presence of the pore former to form a porous resin. The resin may be formed in situ by pouring the partially cross-linked resin into hot oil. Mesoporous resin beads are obtained which can be carbonised into mesoporous carbon beads. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100098615 | Carbonising and/or Activating Carbonaceous Material - A method is provided for carbonizing and activating carbonaceous material, which comprises supplying the material to an externally fired rotary kiln maintained at carbonizing and activating temperatures, the kiln having a downward slope to progress the material as it rotates, the kiln having an atmosphere substantially free of oxygen provided by a counter-current of steam or carbon dioxide, and annular weirs being provided at intervals along the kiln to control progress of the material. There may further be provided an externally fired rotary kiln for carbonizing and activating carbonaceous material having a hollow rotary body that has a downward slope towards a discharge end thereof, and which is provided at intervals along its length with annular weirs for controlling progress of the carbonaceous material. In embodiments, there is also provided a process is for producing discrete solid beads of polymeric material e.g. phenolic resin beads having a mesoporous structure, which may be useful as feedstock for the above mentioned carbonization/activation process or which may have other utility e.g. as ion exchange resins. The process may produce resin beads on an industrial scale without aggregates of resin building up speedily and interrupting production. The process comprises the steps of: (a) combining a stream of a polymerizable liquid precursor e.g. a novolac and hexamine as cross-linking agent dissolved in a first polar organic liquid e.g. ethylene glycol with a stream of a liquid suspension medium which is a second non-polar organic liquid with which the liquid precursor is substantially or completely immiscible e.g. transformer oil containing a drying oil; (b) mixing the combined stream to disperse the polymerizable liquid precursor as droplets in the suspension medium e.g. using an in-line static mixer; (c) allowing the droplets to polymerise in a laminar flow of the suspension medium so as to form discrete solid beads that cannot agglomerate; and (d) recovering the beads from the suspension medium. There is also provided apparatus for forming discrete solid beads of polymeric material, said apparatus comprising: a first line for conveying s stream of a polymerizable liquid precursor; a second line for conveying a stream of a dispersion medium with which the polymerizable liquid precursor is substantially or completely immiscible; an in-line mixer configured to receive a combined flow from the first and second lines and to disperse the polymerizable liquid precursor as droplets in the dispersion medium; a vertical polymerization column configured to receive the dispersion medium with the droplets dispersed therein and to permit the polymerizable liquid precursor polymerize while descending the column in a descending flow of polymerization medium; and a vessel at the base of the column for receiving the descending flow of dispersion medium and collecting polymerized solid beads. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110097583 | POROUS CARBONS - Porous carbon is provided which is a carbonization and optionally an activation product of a precursor resin, which has a pore structure that, as estimated by nitrogen adsorption porosimetry, comprises micropores and mesopores/macropores, said micropores and mesopores/macropores being in a bimodal distribution with few pores of size 2-10 nm, and the mesopores/macropores providing escape routes for volatile products during carbonisation of the precursor resin. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110237691 | POROUS CARBONS - A cured porous phenolic resin is provided that can be made by cross-linking a phenol-formaldehyde pre-polymer in the presence of a pore former, preferably ethylene glycol. The resin may be formed in situ by condensing a phenol with or without modifying agents and with cross-linking agent by pouring partially cross-linked resin into hot oil, in which case mesoporous resin beads are obtained. The resulting resin has mesopores observable in carbon derived from said resin by a pore structure of said derived carbon that comprises mesopores of diameter of 20-500 Å, as estimated by nitrogen adsorption porosimentry, the value for the differential of pore volume V with respect to the logarithm of pore radius R (dV/d log R) for the mesopores being greater than 0.2 for at least some values of pore size in the range 20-500 Å. Microporous beads of the resin may be carbonized into mesoporous carbon beads. | 09-29-2011 |
Donald George Blackburn, Ceredigion GB
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| 20090121076 | HELICOPTER - A helicopter ( | 05-14-2009 |
George Michael Blackburn, Sheffield GB
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| 20090265114 | Influenza virus neuraminidase crystal structure and their use thereof - The invention relates to crystals of the influenza virus neuraminidase protein, their structures and their use. | 10-22-2009 |
Iain Michael Blackburn, East Yorkshire GB
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| 20120116334 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY - Disclosed herein are several embodiments of a negative pressure appliance and methods of using the same in the treatment of wounds. Some embodiments are directed to improved fluidic connectors or suction adapters for connecting to a wound site, for example using softer, kink-free conformable suction adapters. | 05-10-2012 |
John Stuart Blackburn, Cheshire GB
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| 20120017963 | THERMOELECTRIC MODULE WITH INSULATED SUBSTRATE - In a thermoelectric module comprising a series of p and n type semiconductors con | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120024332 | THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL COATED WITH A PROTECTIVE LAYER - A thermoelectric material in a shape for forming part of a thermoelectric module, the thermoelectric material is coated with a protective layer to prevent degradation by humidity, oxygen, chemicals or thermal stress. | 02-02-2012 |
Jonathan Michael Blackburn, Cambridge GB
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| 20090239761 | Protein arrays and uses thereof - The inventors herein describe methods for the production of a functional human, animal, plant or microbe protein arrays and methods to assay for interactions between the proteins on the array with molecules of interest, for example, using such arrays to determine the in vitro metabolite profile of any drug. Such protein arrays can be used, for example, to assay, in a parallel fashion, the protein products of DNA sequences encoding drug metabolizing enzymes (DMES) to obtain a toxicology profile. Also described herein is a novel DME expression and purification strategy using detergents and not requiring an ultra-centrifugation step. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20110172123 | Arrays - Protein arrays that allow the analysis of differentially expressed proteins in parallel are disclosed. Methods for making such arrays, and their use for screening and/or evaluating the effect of chemical entities, including drug and therapeutic moieties, are described. The arrays can also be used to screen for compounds, peptides, or proteins, which modulate the interaction between a protein and the differentially expressed protein. | 07-14-2011 |
Mark Blackburn, Maidenhead GB
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| 20090157797 | DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A data processing system for distributing a package of data from a source to a plurality of data processing machines arranged in a plurality of sites. The data is transmitted from the source to the plurality of data processing machines by means of a multicast. At each site, a local data processing machine is designated as a site master; the other local data processing machines report missing data portions to the site master; and the site master consolidates reports of missing data portions, and requests missing data portions from the source. The source then transmits the missing data portions to the plurality of data processing machines by means of a further multicast. If the site master receives a report of missing data that the site master has stored locally, the site master provides that missing data to the local machines by means of a site multicast. Reports of missing data received by the source from site masters at different sites are consolidated at the source before the source transmits the missing data to the plurality of sites by means of the further multicast. If a local machine is missing data from the multicast from the source, and is not aware that a site master has been designated, that local machine broadcasts to machines at that site information indicating that a site master is required. If a site master is already designated, that site master notifies that local machine that it is the site master; but if no site master is already designated, an election process is instigated to designate one of the machines at that site as site master. | 06-18-2009 |
Mark Blackburn, Berkshire GB
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| 20110264931 | POWER CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WORKSTATIONS - A power control system for workstations ( | 10-27-2011 |
Mary Blackburn, Cambridgeshite GB
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| 20110140888 | Printed Article - A printed article, such as a greeting card, comprises a substrate formed of card, a sensor for detecting exhaled breath directed at the substrate, the sensor comprising first and second spaced electrodes supported on the substrate, at least one transducer for supplying a user-perceivable signal, such as light emitting diodes, and a switching circuit for causing the at least one transducer to supply the signal in response to detection of exhaled breath. | 06-16-2011 |
Richard Simon Blackburn, North Yorkshire GB
Richard Simon Blackburn, Yorkshire GB
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| 20120060303 | NATURAL HAIR DYES - The invention provides dye mixtures for application to human hair, the dye mixtures comprising polyphenolic materials, these materials being obtained from botanical sources. Preferably, the botanical source is fruit, especially fruit selected from blackcurrants, blackberries, blueberries, bilberries, cranberries, grapes, chokeberries, Saskatoon berries, sea-buckthorn, mulberries acai, cherries, red cabbage and/or figs. Preferably, the polyphenolic materials comprise anthocyanin compounds which, most preferably, are aglycone anthocyanidins or glycosylated anthocyanins of the formula (III): | 03-15-2012 |
Richard Simon Blackburn, Leeds GB
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| 20120110751 | Catalysed Dye Systems - The present invention is concerned with a dye system for application to a substrate, the dye system comprising: (a) at least one dye precursor; (b) an oxidising agent; and (c) a catalyst, wherein the catalyst is a homogeneous catalyst or a heterogeneous catalyst. Preferably, the catalyst comprises at least one metal-containing compound. The invention also envisages a method for the coloration of a substrate, the method comprising treating the substrate with the dye system of the invention. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the substrate comprises human hair, natural or synthetic polymers, or textile fibres. In further preferred embodiments, the at least one dye precursor is an organic precursor, the at least one metal derivative for use as a catalyst comprises at least one inorganic metal compound or at least one metal complex comprising at least one organic ligand, and the oxidising agent is hydrogen peroxide. | 05-10-2012 |
Robert Blackburn, Hull GB
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| 20120115388 | COMPATIBLE CARRIER FOR SECONDARY TOUGHENING - Embodiments of the invention are directed to carriers providing a primary toughening function and incorporating a secondary toughening agent therein. According to embodiments of the invention, the carrier/agent combination may be used in liquid resin infusion applications. The carrier may be any polymer-based material having a solubility characteristic in a thermosetting resin. The secondary toughening agent may be of a material such as a thermoplastic, a thermoset, a cross-linked thermoset, a rubber, a rubbery-like material or a combination thereof and may be in the form of a particle, a micro-fiber (fibril) or a fibrous network. In some embodiments, the carrier is soluble in the resin while the secondary toughening agent is insoluble in the resin when subjected to a cure cycle. | 05-10-2012 |
Robert Blackburn, Wrexham GB
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| 20110151232 | Modified Resin Systems for Liquid Resin Infusion Applications & Process Methods Related Thereto - Embodiments of the invention are directed to modified resin systems for use in liquid resin infusion (LRI) processes, variations of LRI processes and other suitable processes. In one embodiment, the modified resin system includes a novel combination of at least one base resin, an amount of particles within a predetermined range and an amount of thermoplastic material within a predetermined range wherein, when combined, the modified resin system has an average viscosity below a threshold average viscosity at a specific temperature and a high level of toughness. The modified resin system may additionally include a curing agent and other suitable components. The modified resin system has been experimentally shown to exhibit a unique, controllable and constant morphology which may be at least partially responsible for imparting a required toughness and damage resistance to a finished composite without adversely impacting properties such as viscosity, potlife, cure temperature, glass transition temperature or tensile modulus of the modified resin system. | 06-23-2011 |
Samuel Blackburn, Edinburgh GB
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| 20110037630 | VOLTAGE MODE DAC WITH CALIBRATION CIRCUIT USING CURRENT MODE DAC AND ROM LOOKUP - The invention is a novel scheme of calibrating a voltage-mode digital to analog converter using a current-mode digital to analog converter. A DAC system is comprised of a voltage-mode DAC with an R-2R architecture structure and includes a ROM lookup table where calibration codes associated with each of a plurality of input codes are stored. A reference current is scaled with the calibration codes to output a calibration current that induces adjustments in an output voltage to counteract non-linearities that may be induced by resistor mismatch. | 02-17-2011 |