Finn, GB
Adrian J. Finn, Greater Manchester GB
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20160054054 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATION OF HYDROCARBONS AND NITROGEN - There is provided a process for the separation of a gaseous feed comprising a mixture of nitrogen, hydrocarbons and at least 0.005 mol % carbon dioxide, the process comprising: (i) cooling and at least partially condensing the gaseous feed, and (ii) separating in one or more stages the cooled and at least partially condensed gaseous feed into a hydrocarbon rich product stream low in nitrogen and a nitrogen rich reject stream low in hydrocarbons, and wherein refrigeration is provided to one or more stages of the separation process by a heat pump system in which a heat pump refrigerant fluid is compressed and subsequently expanded at one or more pressure levels below the condensing pressure, and subsequently heated in heat exchange with the gaseous feed and/or one or more streams generated by the separation process to provide refrigeration thereto; and further wherein at least part of the heated refrigerant is recycled through the heat pump system. There is also provided an apparatus for the separation of a gaseous feed comprising a mixture of nitrogen, hydrocarbons and at least 0.005 mol % carbon dioxide. | 02-25-2016 |
Adrian Joseph Finn, Sowerby Bridge GB
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20120097520 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATION OF HYDROCARBONS AND NITROGEN - The invention provides a process and apparatus for the separation of a gaseous feed comprising a mixture of hydrocarbons and nitrogen gas, the process comprising the steps of: (i) cooling and at least partially condensing the gaseous feed; (ii) feeding the cooled and at least partially condensed feed from step (i) to a fractionation column comprising reboil to produce an overhead hydrocarbon vapour stream enriched in nitrogen and a condensed hydrocarbon product stream low in nitrogen, wherein prior to the fractionation, the feed stream is divided into at least two streams including: a) a first stream which is expanded and fed to the fractionation column; b) a second stream which is expanded, heated and fed to a lower stage of the fractionation column than the first stream, (iii) removing a hydrocarbon product stream low in nitrogen from the fractionation column; and (iv) removing a hydrocarbon vapour stream enriched in nitrogen from the fractionation column. | 04-26-2012 |
Anthony Finn, Liverpool GB
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20080236030 | Fuel Additives - The invention provides a fuel additive compound represented by the general formula (I) | 10-02-2008 |
Bruce Finn, London GB
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20110149248 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FILMING - This invention concerns a method of filming a subjected to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights. The lights may comprise one or more LEDs. A drop-off distance of the front lights may be less than a distance between the front lights and a backscreen. The invention further concerns a lighting control system comprising an input device for receiving inputs on characteristics of the subject to be filmed and a controller arranged to determine from the inputs a required configuration for the lamps and send control signals to at least one of the lamps to cause the lamps to adjust to the required configuration. The lighting system may comprise a controller connected to a data link providing data on a lighting environment at a location where the film of the subject is being projected as a Pepper's Ghost image, the controller controlling the lamps to adjust configuration during filming in response to data on changes in the lighting environment. | 06-23-2011 |
20150227028 | Method and System for Filming - This invention concerns a method of filming a subjected to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights. The lights may comprise one or more LEDs. A drop-off distance of the front lights may be less than a distance between the front lights and a backscreen. The invention further concerns a lighting control system comprising an input device for receiving inputs on characteristics of the subject to be filmed and a controller arranged to determine from the inputs a required configuration for the lamps and send control signals to at least one of the lamps to cause the lamps to adjust to the required configuration. The lighting system may comprise a controller connected to a data link providing data on a lighting environment at a location where the film of the subject is being projected as a Pepper's Ghost image, the controller controlling the lamps to adjust configuration during filming in response to data on changes in the lighting environment. | 08-13-2015 |
Gregory M. Finn, Ramsbury GB
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20090164389 | Investment Management Tool - The following describes an investment management tool based on dynamically linked and re-configurable portfolio building blocks. These building blocks are graphical structural elements of an investment portfolio that represent either individual investments or the hierarchical groupings of individual investments in a multi-tiered investment structure. The portfolio building blocks provide access to a variety of identity/position specific investment tools and they can be individually programmed and dynamically linked to form a highly flexible, hierarchical portfolio management system. The portfolio building blocks when created, structured and linked into an operational portfolio provide an easily manipulated portfolio investment and information management toolkit that dramatically clarifies and simplifies the process with which individual investors can create and manage a portfolio of equities in an investment account. | 06-25-2009 |
Harry John Finn, Lancashire GB
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20100079842 | ELECTRO-OPTIC WINDOWS - An electro-optic window is made of a material substantially transparent to infra-red radiation and is treated to have reduced RF transmission characteristics by the provision of carbon nanotubes within the window or on at least one, surface thereof. | 04-01-2010 |
Harry John Finn, Lytham St Annes GB
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20130321626 | IMAGE CAPTURING - A camera assembly is disclosed for mounting on a vehicle (e.g. an aircraft). An exemplary camera assembly can include: a fixture (e.g. a rotatable drum); a camera; and a mirror; wherein the fixture is arranged to be rotated relative to the vehicle about an axis; the camera is mounted on the fixture such that the camera has a substantially fixed position relative to the fixture; the mirror is mounted on the fixture such that, if the fixture rotates, the mirror rotates; the mirror is rotatable relative to the fixture about a further axis, the further axis being substantially perpendicular to the axis; and the camera is arranged to detect electromagnetic radiation reflected by the mirror. The axis and the further axis may intersect. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321635 | IMAGE CAPTURING - A camera array and method are disclosed for capturing and processing images of an area of terrain. For each of a plurality of time-steps within a time period, using each of a plurality of cameras in a camera array, an exemplary method includes: generating an image of a respective portion of terrain, wherein the cameras in the camera array have substantially fixed positions relative to each other, and the portions of terrain are such that the whole of the area of terrain has been imaged by the end of the time period; selecting a subset of the images such that the whole of the terrain is covered by the portions of the terrain in the images in the subset; and for an image not in the subset, if an object of interest is in that image, extracting a sub-image containing the object from that image. | 12-05-2013 |
Hugh Finn, Cheshire GB
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20080252046 | Air-Bag - An air-bag is disclosed which is formed from fabric ( | 10-16-2008 |
20130026740 | Inflatable Airbag and a Method for Making the Same - A method of forming a fabric for an air-bag, the method comprising providing a plurality of yarns, each yarn being formed from a plurality of individual fibres; applying an activatable additive or coating to each yarn, the additive or coating initially not being activated and wherein, prior to activation, the additive or coating presents little or no impedance to the relative movement of the fibres within the yarn and, following activation, the additive or coating binds fibres within the yarn to one another to prevent or hinder relative movement of the fibres in the yarn with respect to one another; and passing the yarns through an activation zone including a compressing component which applies a compressive force to the yarns, the additive or coating being activated as the yarns pass through the activation zone so that the yarns each have a substantially flat configuration. | 01-31-2013 |
20130113195 | Motor Vehicle Safety Device - There is disclosed a safety device for a motor vehicle. The device comprises an inflatable ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130140800 | Airbag - An airbag having an outer skin enclosing at least one gas chamber is disclosed. The outer skin is made at least in parts of polymer material with the polymers of the polymer material being made by polymerisation of monomers. In order to reduce the total consumption of fossil based raw materials during the life cycle of a vehicle, at least a part of the monomers are sustainable based monomers being produced from a renewable raw material. | 06-06-2013 |
Hugh Finn, Warrington GB
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20090267333 | Air-bag and a method of controlling pressure within an air-bag - An air-bag ( | 10-29-2009 |
20140021700 | Fabric for Use in the Manufacture of an Inflatable Air-Bag - A fabric for use in the manufacture of an inflatable air-bag, the fabric having interwoven warp fibres and weft fibres which are arranged substantially perpendicular to one another, one or more of the warp and weft fibres being at least partially coated with an adhesive substance to increase the friction between the warp and weft fibres at their intersections. In another embodiment, the fabric is formed from fibres having a central core and another sheath. | 01-23-2014 |
20140329037 | AIR-BAG FABRICS - A fabric for a seam region of an inflatable air-bag includes fibres formed from polyester and having an elongation at break of around 12% to 20%. The fabric also has an instantaneous thermal creep above 0.5% at 100° C. | 11-06-2014 |
20150203996 | FABRIC FOR AN AIR-BAG - A fabric for an air-bag comprising interwoven sets of warp and weft yarns, wherein the yarns of one of the least 1.5, and the yarns of the other set of yarns are not tape-like and have a width-depth ratio less than 1.5. | 07-23-2015 |
Jamie Finn, Slough GB
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20140315574 | METHOD OF DETERMINING LOCATION - A method of locating a mobile device ( | 10-23-2014 |
Jonathan Finn, London GB
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20090301287 | Gallery of Ideas - Systems and methods for using musical data are provided. In one implementation, a method is provided that includes receiving input selecting a musical phrase including musical data. A copy of the musical phrase is created and persistently stored. An input is received selecting a destination location in a musical score. The copy of the persistently stored musical phrase is placed into the musical score at the selected location. | 12-10-2009 |
20090301288 | Musical Sound Identification - Systems and methods for identifying musical sounds are provided. In one implementation, a method includes receiving a collection of sound identifiers. Each sound identifier in the collection identifies a sound. Each sound identifier is associated with a corresponding audio representation. The collection of sound identifiers is used to construct a hierarchy of sound identifiers where each sound identifier appears only once in the hierarchy of sound identifiers. The hierarchy of sound identifiers is arranged according to a musical similarity between the sounds identified by the collection of sound identifiers. A selection of a first sound identifier is received. The first audio representation corresponding to the first sound identified by the first sound identifier is unavailable. The second sound identifier identifies a second sound that is musically similar to the first sound identified by the first sound identifier. An available second audio representation corresponding to a second sound identifier is provided. | 12-10-2009 |
Narmina Finn, Westhill GB
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20150299555 | Additive for Well Cementing Applications - An additive for Portland-cement slurries comprises an alkanolamine polyborate. When added in concert with a set retarder, the alkanolamine polyborate minimizes or prevents premature gelation during placement in a subterranean well. The additive is particularly useful for highly reactive cements, and may reduce the amount of set retarder required to achieve a given placement time. | 10-22-2015 |
Nicholas Finn, Cambridge GB
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20080213297 | Method of producing conjugate vaccines - The present invention relates to a method of production of a hydrazide modified sugar comprising a step of reacting a sugar with a hydrazide in a reaction solvent at a pH of between 3 and 5.5, wherein the solvent comprises an aqueous based solvent and an optional polar organic co-solvent. A further aspect of the invention relates to a method of production of a polysaccharide epitope carrier protein conjugate comprising the steps of: (a) reacting a polysaccharide epitope with a hydrazide to form a hydrazide modified polysaccharide epitope; (b) reacting the hydrazide modified polysaccharide epitope with a linker that has been pre-coupled to a carrier protein. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method of production of a sugar-dihydrazide-aldehyde adduct comprising the steps of: (a) producing a hydrazide modified sugar using a method according to the invention, wherein the hydrazide modified sugar includes a further unreacted hydrazide moiety; and (b) reacting the further hydrazide moiety with the aldehyde functionality of a linker group. | 09-04-2008 |
Paul Finn, Oxford GB
Paul Howard Finn, Yorkshire GB
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20120226426 | Apparatus and Method for Controlling a Multi-Fuel Engine - A dual-fuel engine has a primary fuel supply and a secondary fuel supply, the primary and secondary fuels being arranged in use to mix with each other and with air for combustion in one or more cylinders of the engine. The supply of both the primary and secondary fuels is arranged to be actively managed in accordance with a desired engine performance characteristic by an electronic controller. In one arrangement the supply of a primary fuel is arranged to be actively reduced when a secondary fuel is supplied to the engine. | 09-06-2012 |
Paul W. Finn, Abingdon GB
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20080269237 | CARBAMIC ACID COMPOUNDS COMPRISING A PIPERAZINE LINKAGE AS HDAC INHIBITORS - This invention pertains to certain carbamic acid compounds which inhibit HDAC (histone deacetylase) activity of the following formula: | 10-30-2008 |
20100093743 | CARBAMIC ACID COMPOUNDS COMPRISING A BICYCLIC HETEROARYL GROUP AS HDAC INHIBITORS - This invention pertains to certain carbamic acid compounds of the following formula, which inhibit HDAC (histone deacetylase) activity wherein: A is independently an unsubstituted or substituted bicyclic C | 04-15-2010 |
20100249197 | CARBAMIC ACID COMPOUNDS COMPRISING AN AMIDE LINKAGE AS HDAC INHIBITORS - This invention pertains to certain active carbamic acid compounds which inhibit HDAC activity and which have the formula (1) wherein: A is an aryl group; Q | 09-30-2010 |
20110105572 | CARBAMIC ACID COMPOUNDS COMPRISING AN AMIDE LINKAGE AS HDAC INHIBITORS - This invention pertains to certain active carbamic acid compounds which inhibit HDAC activity and which have the following formula: | 05-05-2011 |
20110275810 | CARBAMIC ACID COMPOUNDS COMPRISING A PIPERAZINE LINKAGE AS HDAC INHIBITORS - This invention pertains to certain carbamic acid compounds which inhibit HDAC (histone deacetylase) activity of the following formula: | 11-10-2011 |
Russell P. Finn, Winchester GB
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20160029203 | Device Connectivity - A method of operating a device comprising connecting to an external data source via a network, determining that the network connection has been broken, determining that the network connection has been restored, detecting that a user is accessing an application that requires access to the network connection, and prioritizing the accessed application with respect to the required access to the network connection. | 01-28-2016 |
Stacey Michael Finn, Salisbury GB
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20120197343 | APPARATUS FOR FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE BODY - A controller is provided for a functional electrical stimulator for attachment to a leg comprising, a connector for a foot switch for sensing foot rise or foot strike, a circuit for responding to said foot switch for generating stimulation pulses and a connector for first and second electrodes for attachment to the leg for supplying stimulation pulses from said circuit The circuit includes a voltage divider of which the foot switch when connected comprises one element, a second element being provided by a digital potentiometer forming part of the controller. A micro controller is configured to make adaptive adjustment of the resistance of said digital potentiometer to take account of the resistance characteristics of the foot switch to provide an output or reference voltage permitting an open/closed state of the switch to be monitored. In an embodiment, manually operable external control devices form part of said controller and the micro controller is configured on operation of said external control devices to change between a working state in which stimulation pulses are provided depending on the state of the foot switch and a setup state for entry using the external control devices of parameters defining characteristics of the stimulation pulses. | 08-02-2012 |
20140276236 | WIRELESS FOOTSWITCH AND FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION APPARATUS - A shoe insole has a cavity configured to provide an internal pocket open to a face of said insole, conveniently the lower face, the cavity having a length greater than its width and being directed generally along the length of the insole. A segmented structure is slideably insertable into said cavity within it is removably retained, the segments being disposed along the cavity and housing a pressure sensor, sensor state monitoring circuits, a wireless transceiver and a battery, adjacent segments being electrically connected together and hinged together by pairs of laterally spaced connector bars each mechanically connected together by links configured to maintaining the spacing between segments while permitting flexion between adjacent segments under loads encountered during walking. | 09-18-2014 |
Terry Patrick Finn, Basingstoke GB
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20100048580 | HISTAMINE H3 RECEPTOR AGENTS, PREPARATION AND THERAPEUTIC USES - The present invention discloses novel compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which have histamine-H3 receptor antagonist or inverse agonist activity, as well as methods for preparing such compounds. In another embodiment, the invention discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I) as well as methods of using them to treat obesity, cognitive deficiencies, narcolepsy, and other histamine H3 receptor-related diseases | 02-25-2010 |