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20100257680 | CLEANER HEAD - A cleaner head for a cleaning appliance including a housing having an air outlet, a rotary brush bar assembly located within a chamber of the housing, the chamber having an air outlet which is in fluid communication with the air outlet of the housing, and a drive mechanism for driving the brush bar assembly, the drive mechanism extending into the chamber between first and second side walls of the chamber, wherein the brush bar assembly comprises a first brush bar section located within a first section of the chamber between the drive mechanism and the first side wall of the chamber, and a second brush bar section located within a second section of the chamber between the drive mechanism and the second side wall of the chamber, and wherein the air outlet of the chamber extends between and into both sections of the chamber. | 10-14-2010 |
20100257692 | CLEANER HEAD - A cleaner head for a cleaning appliance includes a housing, a moveable agitator located within the housing, and a detachable unit extending about the agitator. The detachable unit includes a sole plate having a suction opening through which dirt-bearing air enters the cleaner head, a chassis detachably connected to the housing, and a flexible annular seal for allowing relative movement between the housing and the sole plate. One end of the flexible annular seal is connected to the chassis and the other end of the flexible annular seal is connected to the sole plate. | 10-14-2010 |
20100257695 | CLEANER HEAD - A cleaner head for a cleaning appliance includes a housing, a sole plate for engaging with the floor surface, the sole plate comprising a suction opening through which dirt-bearing air enters the cleaner head, and a flexible annular seal located between the sole plate and the housing to allow the housing to move relative to the sole plate to reduce the force exerted on the sole plate by the housing, thereby allowing the sole plate to ride over the floor surface during a cleaning operation. The cleaner head includes at least one floor engaging support member connected to the housing for restricting the movement of the housing towards the sole plate to prevent the housing from pushing the sole plate against the floor surface. | 10-14-2010 |
20100257696 | CLEANER HEAD - A cleaner head for a cleaning appliance includes a housing, a suction opening through which dirt-bearing air enters the cleaner head, and a plurality of floor engaging support members connected to the housing. Each support member includes a curved lower surface and a rolling element located within a recessed portion of the lower surface of the support member. The outer surface of the rolling element is substantially coincident with a locus, or virtual surface, described by the lower surface of the support member. | 10-14-2010 |
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20150216382 | SEPARATING APPARATUS IN A VACUUM CLEANER - A vacuum cleaner having a vac motor and a separating assembly for separating out dust particles entrained in an airflow drawn through the separator by the vac motor. The separating assembly is a multi-stage separating assembly comprising a primary separation stage and a secondary, non-cyclonic separation stage which is downstream of the primary separation stage, the non-cyclonic separation stage comprising a flow bend for changing the direction of the airflow thereby to separate out dust particles entrained in the airflow. A primary dust collector is provided for collecting dust particles separated out by the first separation stage, and a secondary dust collector is provided for collecting the dust particles separated out by the flow bend, wherein the primary dust collector at least partly surrounds the secondary dust collector. | 08-06-2015 |
20150216383 | SEPARATING APPARATUS IN A VACUUM CLEANER - A vacuum cleaner having a vac-motor and a dust separator for separating out dust particles entrained in an airflow drawn through the separator by the vac-motor. The separator is a multi-stage separator incorporating a cyclonic primary separation stage, a non-cyclonic secondary separation stage which is downstream of the primary separation stage and a cyclonic tertiary stage which is downstream of the secondary stage. In accordance with the invention, the secondary stage includes a flow bend for changing the direction of the airflow thereby to separate out dust particles entrained in the airflow. The vacuum cleaner also includes a primary dust collector for collecting dust particles separated out by the primary separation stage, a secondary dust collector for collecting the dust particles separated out by the flow bend and a tertiary dust collector for collecting dust separated out by the tertiary separation stage. | 08-06-2015 |
20150216384 | SEPARATING APPARATUS IN A VACUUM CLEANER - A vacuum cleaner comprising a vac motor and a separating apparatus for separating out dust particles entrained in an airflow drawn through the separator by the vac motor. The separating apparatus incorporates a non-cyclonic separation stage , the non-cyclonic separation stage comprising a flow bend for turning the airflow to separate out some of the dust particles entrained in the airflow, and a dust collector for collecting the dust particles separated out by the flow bend. The dust collector incorporates an opening, the flow bend being formed by a partition which divides the opening into a flow bend inlet and a flow bend outlet, the partition extending part-way into the dust collector so that airflow entering through the flow bend inlet is then forced to bend around the partition inside the dust collector before exiting through the flow bend outlet. | 08-06-2015 |
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20110104534 | Battery Cell - A battery cell including: an anode configured to operate as a source of cations during discharge of the battery cell; and an electrolyte configured to transport the cations from the anode to the a cathode during discharge of the battery cell, wherein the cathode includes material that is configured to enable the reversible insertion of transported cations during discharge of the battery cell and that has optical properties that are dependent upon cation insertion and that is viewable by a user. | 05-05-2011 |
20110286156 | Generating Perceptible Touch Stimulus - Apparatus including: a face including a first surface electrode and a second insulated surface electrode; and a controller configured to apply a time varying potential difference between the first surface electrode and the second insulated surface electrode and configured to control at least the time variation in the potential difference. | 11-24-2011 |
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20120038559 | Generating Perceptible Touch Stimulus - Apparatus including a first surface electrode and an arrangement of second insulated surface electrodes; a display configured to display an image; and a controller configured to apply a potential difference between the first surface electrode and the arrangement of second insulated surface electrodes and configured to control at least a variation in the applied potential difference in dependence upon the displayed image. | 02-16-2012 |
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20120279422 | Apparatus And Associated Methods - A coating including a liquid-phobic and/or liquid-philic material, the coating configured to control the shape of a corresponding liquid to form a liquid lens of specific focal length on the coating. | 11-08-2012 |
20120300282 | Apparatus and Associated Methods - In one or more embodiments described herein, there is provided an apparatus including a support layer, a plurality of pixels, and a switch. The pixels are formed using an arrangement of respective liquid-phobic elements disposed on the support layer. The arrangement of the liquid-phobic elements is configured so as to be able to provide, when interacting with a liquid on the support layer, one or more associated plastron regions to provide a first pixel optical state. The switch is configured to be able to selectively modify one or more of said associated plastron regions to provide a second pixel optical state. | 11-29-2012 |
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20130160527 | Multifunctional Apparatus Comprising a Superliquidphobic Surface - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, apparatus including a position sensitive layer configured for position sensitivity; and a superliquidphobic layer configured for superliquidphobicity, the superliquidphobic layer positioned with a surface proximal to a surface of the position sensitive layer; wherein the position sensitive layer is configured to detect the position of a liquid droplet situated on a surface of the superliquidphobic layer. | 06-27-2013 |
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20140023852 | Apparatus and Associated Method - An apparatus including a durable porous substrate; and a perfluorinated liquid located within pores of the durable porous substrate. The durable porous substrate and the perfluorinated liquid together are configured to provide an omniphobic surface. | 01-23-2014 |
20140049505 | Apparatus and Associated Methods - An apparatus including a plurality of adjacent repeated base units, each base unit formed from an active electrode of first, second and third touch sensor arrays, the first, second and third touch sensor arrays each including a plurality of active electrodes connected to a respective common terminal of the touch sensor array, wherein each base unit includes an active electrode of the second touch sensor array interlaced between an active electrode of the first touch sensor array and an active electrode of the third touch sensor array such that a swipe touch gesture applied to two or more adjacent active electrodes of the apparatus generates signalling at the respective common terminals of the corresponding touch sensor arrays which allows the direction of the swipe touch gesture to be determined. | 02-20-2014 |
20140050988 | Apparatus and Associated Methods - An apparatus including a layer of electrically conductive material with an open interconnected wall structure of electrically conductive material formed thereon, the open interconnected wall structure having a gyroid structure including one or more open pores into which an active material for use in generating and/or storing electrical charge can be deposited, wherein the layer of electrically conductive material and the open interconnected wall structure together form a charge collector which provides an electrical path from the active material for the generated and/or stored electrical charge. | 02-20-2014 |
20140092055 | Apparatus and associated methods - An apparatus including a shaft configured to be gripped by a user to provide input to a touch input panel; and a tip located at an interacting end of the apparatus for interacting with the touch input panel, the tip including an electrically conductive element and an electrically insulating material, the electrically insulating material configured to capacitively decouple the electrically conductive element from the shaft and/or user, wherein the electrically conductive element is configured to couple capacitively to an electrotactile electrode of the touch input panel when the electrically conductive element is in proximity to the electrotactile electrode, capacitive coupling between the electrically conductive element and the electrotactile electrode creates vibrations in the tip to cause a variation in the frictional force between the tip and the touch input panel as perceived by a user gripping the shaft during relative lateral movement of the tip and touch input panel. | 04-03-2014 |
20140107495 | Wearable Apparatus and Associated Methods - A wearable apparatus including a plurality of waveguides each configured to act as a conduit for light emitted from an illumination source to a photodetector via an interaction portion of the respective waveguide, the interaction portion of each waveguide configured to channel the light out of the respective waveguide to enable interaction of the light with the wearer's body and back into the respective waveguide to enable detection of the interacted light by the photodetector. | 04-17-2014 |
20140107498 | Wearable Apparatus and Associated Methods - A wearable apparatus including a waveguide configured to act as a conduit for light emitted from an illumination source to a photodetector via an interaction portion of the waveguide, the interaction portion configured to channel the light out of the waveguide to enable interaction of the light with a wearer's body and back into the waveguide to enable detection of the interacted light by the photodetector. | 04-17-2014 |
20140295150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINING TOGETHER MULTIPLE FUNCTIONAL LAYERS OF A FLEXIBLE DISPLAY - The present invention may relate to provision of a mechanism to join together the various substrate layers of a flexible display with optically clear adhesives that permit improved flexibility of the substrate layer stack and may also optically guide images to locations on a display surface that are not aligned with the display layer of a substrate layer stack. Embodiments of the present invention may provide for an improved user interface which may include enhanced flexibility and enhanced optical characteristics. | 10-02-2014 |
20140313021 | Haptic Device for Pedestrian Navigation - An apparatus comprises a first magnetic plate; a second magnetic plate oriented parallel no the first magnetic plate, magnetically coupled to the first magnetic plate, and slidable relative to the first magnetic plate; a dielectric material positioned between the first magnetic plate and the second magnetic plate; and a contact in communication with the first magnetic plate and the second magnetic plate through which a voltage is applied, the voltage generating a signal that is responsive to a task performed on a mobile device, the signal providing a haptic effect to the first magnetic plate and the second magnetic plate upon sliding of the first magnetic plate relative to the second magnetic plate. | 10-23-2014 |
20150110989 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING A COMPONENT - According to various, but not necessarily all, examples of the disclosure there may be provided an apparatus and method, the apparatus may comprise: an encapsulated portion configured to receive at least one component wherein the encapsulated portion comprises at least one barrier wall; and a source of gas provided within the encapsulated portion and configured to cause a net flow of gas through the barrier walls from inside the encapsulated portion to outside the encapsulated portion. | 04-23-2015 |
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20130149554 | Graphene Composite and a Method of Manufacturing a Graphene Composite - A method including providing graphene on a growth substrate; providing a target substrate on the graphene to form a first composite including the target substrate and graphene; and removing at least a portion of the first composite from the growth substrate. | 06-13-2013 |
20130318676 | Wearable Apparatus - An apparatus including a structure including a plurality of passages from an interior side of the structure towards an exterior side of the structure; and a hydrophilic wicking material, positioned on at least the interior side of the structure, forming a contact surface for placement adjacent a user's skin. | 12-05-2013 |
20140128687 | Apparatus and Method of Assembling an Apparatus for Sensing Pressure - An apparatus and method of forming an apparatus wherein the apparatus includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged to form a parallel plate capacitor; a compressible, transparent dielectric layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein the dielectric layer has a nanostructure and the dimensions of the nanostructure are such that the dielectric layer is optically transparent. | 05-08-2014 |
20140345924 | Apparatus and Associated Methods - A substrate including a fluid reservoir and a connected fluid channel, the fluid reservoir positioned away from a component region of the substrate, the fluid channel configured to extend from the fluid reservoir to guide an electrically conductive fluid from the fluid reservoir at a reservoir end of the fluid channel through the fluid channel to a component end of the fluid channel, the component end extending to the component region of the substrate to enable the formation of an electrical connection to a connector of an electronic component appropriately positioned in the component region, formation of the electrical connection allowing the electronic component to be interconnected to other electronic components using one or more of the fluid reservoir and fluid channel. | 11-27-2014 |
20140355117 | Apparatus and Associated Methods - A display protector for use with a heat source, the display protector including one or more transparent fluid incident regions and one or more fluid driver regions, wherein the display protector is configured to guide a fluid incident upon one or more of the transparent fluid incident regions away to one or more of the fluid driver regions to facilitate driving of the fluid from the one or more fluid driver regions by heat supplied by the heat source. | 12-04-2014 |
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20120216019 | METHOD OF, AND APPARATUS FOR, STREAM SCHEDULING IN PARALLEL PIPELINED HARDWARE - There is provided embodiment of methods of generating a hardware design for a pipelined parallel stream processor. An embodiment of the method comprises defining, on a computing device, a processing operation designating processes to be implemented in hardware as part of said pipelined parallel stream processor; defining, on a computing device, a graph representing said processing operation as a parallel structure in the time domain as a function of clock cycles, said graph comprising at least one data path to be implemented as a hardware design for said pipelined parallel stream processor and comprising a plurality of branches configured to enable data values to be streamed therethrough, the branches of the or each data path being represented as comprising at least one input, at least one output, at least one discrete object corresponding directly to a hardware element to be implemented in hardware as part of said pipelined parallel stream processor, the or each discrete object being operable to execute a function for one or more clock cycles and having a predefined latency associated therewith, said predefined latency representing the time required for said hardware element to execute said function; said data values propagating through said data path from the at least one input to the at least one output as a function of increasing clock cycle; defining, on a computing device, the at least one data path and associated latencies of said graph as a set of algebraic linear inequalities; solving, on a computing device, said set of linear inequalities; optimising, on a computing device, the at least one data path in said graph using said solved linear inequalities to produce an optimised graph; and utilising, on a computing device, said optimised graph to define an optimised hardware design for implementation in hardware as said pipelined parallel stream processor. | 08-23-2012 |
20130139122 | Method of, and Apparatus for, Data Path Optimisation in Parallel Pipelined Hardware - A method of generating a hardware design for a pipelined parallel stream processor, by defining a hardware processing operation; specifying at least one propagation rule; defining a graph representing the processing operation in the time domain, comprising at least one data path to be implemented as a hardware design and a plurality of parallel branches; each data path having: at least one data path input, output, and discrete object corresponding to a hardware element; each discrete object comprises an input for receiving an input variable, an operator for executing a function on said input variable, and an output variable; optimizing each output from each discrete object in dependence upon the propagation rule to produce an optimised graph; and utilizing the optimised graph to define an optimised hardware design for implementation in said pipelined parallel stream processor. | 05-30-2013 |
20130173890 | METHOD OF, AND APPARATUS FOR, STREAM SCHEDULING IN PARALLEL PIPELINED HARDWARE - A method of generating a hardware design for a stream processor. The method includes defining a graph representing a processing operation designating processes to be implemented in hardware as part of the stream processor. The graph represents the processing operation in the time domain as a function of clock cycles and includes at least one data path. At least one stream offset object is provided located at a particular point in the data path. The stream offset object is operable to access, for a particular clock cycle and for the particular point in the data path, data values from a clock cycle different from the particular clock cycle | 07-04-2013 |