Patents Assigned to Dyson Technology Limited
  • HAIRSTYLING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230309674
    Abstract: A hairstyling device is provided. The hairstyling device includes a heatable hair contact member having a hair-contactable surface, the hair contact member being operable to apply heat to a tress of hair of a user via the hair-contactable surface. The hairstyling device includes a controller configured to determine that the hair contact member is moving along the tress from a first end of the tress towards a second end of the tress. The controller is configured to, based on the determining, control heating of the hair contact member to cause the operating temperature of the hair contact member to change as the hair contact member moves along the tress from the first end of the tress towards the second end of the tress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Elizabeth Chania HICKEY, Andrew Collingwood WATSON, Tong QIAO, Lili TAO
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK TO A USER INPUT
    Publication number: 20230306705
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for providing feedback to a user input. The method includes obtaining data representing a scene model derived from scene data representing a scene in real space; obtaining data representing a user input identifying a first portion of the scene in real space; estimating, based on the user input data, a first position within the scene model corresponding to the first portion of the scene; determining control information for controlling a light source to direct light at or near a second position in real space corresponding to the first position within the scene model; and outputting the control information to control a light source, thereby to provide for feedback to the user input. The method may be implemented by a robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Muhammad FRAZ, Charles Anthony Neild COLLIS
  • METHOD OF FORMING A CATHODE LAYER, METHOD OF FORMING A BATTERY HALF CELL
    Publication number: 20230304141
    Abstract: A method of forming a layer of a cathode is provided. The method includes generating a plasma remote from one or more sputter targets, sputtering material from the target or targets using the plasma, and depositing the sputtered material on the substrate to which a bias voltage has been applied, thereby forming the layer of cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Samuel John ALEXANDER, Robert Ian Joseph GRUAR
  • Methods for making magnesium salts
    Patent number: 11769911
    Abstract: A method of making a salt of the formula: Mg[Al(R)4]2, where R represents a compound selected from a deprotonated alcohol or thiol; an amine; or a mixture thereof. The method comprising the steps of; combining a Mg(AlH4)2 precursor with an alcohol, thiol or amine of the general formula R—H to create a reaction liquor containing Mg[Al(R)4]2; and washing the reaction liquor in an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Evan Keyzer, Clare Grey, Dominic Wright
  • Fan assembly
    Patent number: 11767859
    Abstract: There is provided a fan assembly comprising a fan body, a motor-driven impeller contained within the fan body and arranged to generate an air flow, a nozzle comprising a nozzle body having an air inlet arranged to receive the air flow from the fan body and one or more air outlets arranged to emit the airflow from the fan assembly. The fan assembly further comprises a nozzle retaining mechanism for releasably retaining the nozzle on the fan body, and a rotation mechanism for rotating the nozzle body relative to the fan body. The nozzle rotation mechanism comprises a rotation motor arranged to drive a drive member and a driven member that is arranged to be driven by the drive member to rotate around a rotation axis, wherein the nozzle body comprises the driven member and the fan body comprises the rotation motor and the drive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Steven Eduard Peet, Neil Andrew Stewart, Robert James Fryer, Adam Daniel Jouques, Victoria Anne Dorothy Gibson-Robinson, Harriet Rebecca White, Stephen Andrew Baker, Thomas Greer Duvall, Jack David Collins
  • Nozzle for a fan assembly
    Patent number: 11767853
    Abstract: There is provided a nozzle for a fan assembly. The nozzle comprises an air inlet, a first air outlet and a second air outlet that are oriented in convergent directions, and a valve for controlling the first and second air outlets. The valve comprises one or more valve members that are moveable to simultaneously adjust the size of the first air outlet and inversely adjust the size of the second air outlet. The nozzle further comprises a third air outlet and a fourth air outlet, the third air outlet being opposite the fourth air outlet, the third and fourth air outlets being oriented in convergent directions, and the third air outlet and the fourth air outlet each being substantially perpendicular to each of the first and second air outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Lucy Horton, Timothy Neil Jukes, Charles Edward Pouget, Joseph Robert Carling, Ryan Alexander Hughes, Steven Eduard Peet, Peter Harley
  • Dirt separator for a vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: 11766157
    Abstract: A dirt separator for a vacuum cleaner includes a chamber having an inlet through which dirt-laden fluid enters and an outlet through which cleansed fluid exits the chamber. A disc located at the outlet rotates about a rotational axis and comprises holes through which the cleansed fluid passes. The dirt-laden fluid enters the chamber along a flow axis that intersects the disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Charles Howard Percy-Raine, Andrew John Isaacs, Alexander Michael Campbell-Hill
  • HAIRSTYLING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230292901
    Abstract: A hairstyling device is provided. The hairstyling device includes a heatable hair contact member having a hair-contactable surface, the hair contact member being operable to apply heat to hair via the hair-contactable surface. The hairstyling device includes a controller configured to monitor power draw associated with heating of the hair contact member during heating of hair of a user via the hair-contactable surface. Based on the monitored power draw, one or more hair damage parameters indicative of damage of the heated hair are calculated. The controller is configured to control the hairstyling device based on the one or more calculated hair damage parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Elizabeth Chania HICKEY, Andrew Collingwood WATSON, Massimo CAMPLANI
  • HAIRSTYLING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230292903
    Abstract: A hairstyling device is provided. The hairstyling device includes a heatable hair contact member having a hair-contactable surface, the hair contact member being operable to apply heat to hair via the hair-contactable surface. The hairstyling device includes an inertial measurement unit, IMU, configured to output signals dependent on movement of the hair contact member. The hairstyling device includes a controller configured to receive a signal from the IMU indicating movement of the hair contact member along a tress of hair between a first end of the tress and a second end of the tress, process the received signal to determine a speed of the hair contact member, and control heating of the hair contact member based on the determined speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Elizabeth Chania HICKEY, Andrew Collingwood WATSON, Massimo CAMPLANI, Lili TAO
  • HAIRSTYLING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230292902
    Abstract: A cordless hairstyling device, a method of operating the hairstyling device, and a computer program comprising a set of instructions, which, when executed causes a computerized device to perform the method is provided. The device includes a heatable hair contact member having a hair contact-able surface, the hair contact member being operable to apply heat to a tress of hair of a user via the hair contactable surface, at least one sensor configured to sense a change in state of the device from a first stationary state to a second moving state, and a controller configured to, in response to the at least one sensor sensing a change in state from the first state to the second state, cause the hair contact member to heat to a pre-determined operating temperature by a pre-determined amount of time after the detected state change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Elizabeth Chania HICKEY, Andrew Collingwood WATSON
  • SOLID STATE THIN FILM BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
    Publication number: 20230291044
    Abstract: A solid state thin film battery including a plurality of solid state cells and a termination region is disclosed. Each cell is connected to the termination region by a current collector which includes a deformation element configured to deform under a lower load than the rest of the current collector. The properties, for example the geometry and/or materials of the portion of the current collector that forms the deformation element, may differ with respect to the properties of the rest of the current collector. Methods of manufacturing and operating such a battery are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventor: Samuel James CHAPMAN
  • Cleaning appliance
    Patent number: 11744689
    Abstract: A dental cleaning appliance includes a handle and a fluid delivery system. The fluid delivery system includes a nozzle for delivering a burst of working fluid to the teeth of a user, and a moveable fluid conduit which is moveable about an axis relative to the handle. The nozzle is moveable with the fluid conduit, which is biased for movement about the axis in a direction which urges the nozzle against a user's teeth during use of the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Thomas James Dunning Follows, William John Bex-Russell, Timothy Nicholas Stickney, Robert Lawrence Tweedie
  • HAIRSTYLING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230270222
    Abstract: A hairstyling device is provided. The hairstyling device is operable to apply heat to hair of a user. The hairstyling device includes sensor equipment configured to generate sensor output dependent on at least one use characteristic of the hairstyling device indicative of current use of the hairstyling device. The hairstyling device includes a controller configured to receive the sensor output from the sensor equipment, process the sensor output to determine one or more hair damage parameters indicative of damage to hair being heated by the hairstyling device, and cause, during heating of the hair by the hairstyling device, a user interface to provide an output dependent on the one or more hair damage parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Elizabeth Chania HICKEY, Andrew Collingwood WATSON, Tong QIAO
  • VACUUM CLEANER
    Publication number: 20230263347
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes: a vacuum motor; one or more time of flight sensors configured to generate first sensor signals dependent on the proximity of an object to the one or more time of flight sensors; a capacitive sensor located in proximity to a handle of the vacuum cleaner and configured to generate second sensor signals dependent on whether a user is gripping the handle; and a controller configured to: process the generated first and second sensor signals to determine whether the vacuum cleaner is actively being used by the user; and in response to determining that the vacuum cleaner is actively being used, activate the vacuum motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Massimo CAMPLANI, Andrew Collingwood WATSON, David Alan MILLINGTON, Nathan LAWSON MCLEAN
  • VACUUM CLEANER
    Publication number: 20230263354
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes: a vacuum motor; a first sensor configured to generate first sensor signals based on sensed motion and orientation of the vacuum cleaner; a cleaner head comprising an agitator; one or more diagnostic sensors configured to generate second sensor signals based on sensed parameters of the cleaner head; and a controller configured to: process the generated first and second sensor signals to determine whether the vacuum cleaner is actively being used by a user; and in response to determining that the vacuum cleaner is actively being used, activate the vacuum motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Massimo CAMPLANI, Andrew Collingwood WATSON, David Alan MILLINGTON, Nathan LAWSON MCLEAN
  • TORQUE SENSOR ELEMENT AND TORQUE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20230266186
    Abstract: A torque sensor element for measuring a torque applied to a joint is described. The torque sensor element includes: an outer frame and an inner frame respectively to connect to first and second sides of a joint; and a compliant arrangement connecting the outer frame to the inner frame. The compliant arrangement includes: first and second members, each extending between and connecting the outer and inner frames, and each being resilient and deformable to permit some relative rotation between the outer and inner frames in response to an applied torque. A connecting structure extends between the first and second members and includes a first portion intermediate the first and second members which is configured responsive to a deformation of the first and/or second member to move by an amount determined by a degree of relative rotation between the outer and inner frames caused by a torque applied to the joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventor: Oliver Joe WHEEN
  • VACUUM CLEANER
    Publication number: 20230263355
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes: a plurality of sensors configured to generate sensor signals; a vacuum motor; and a controller comprising first and second modules, wherein: the first module is configured to process the generated sensor signals to generate a plurality of control signals; the second module is configured to process the plurality of control signals to generate an output signal indicating that the vacuum cleaner is currently being used; and the vacuum motor is configured to activate or deactivate in dependence on the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Massimo CAMPLANI, Andrew Collingwood WATSON, David Alan MILLINGTON, Nathan LAWSON MCLEAN
  • VACUUM CLEANER
    Publication number: 20230255425
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes: a sensor configured to generate sensor signals based on sensed motion and orientation of the vacuum cleaner; a vacuum motor; and a controller configured to: process the generated sensor signals to determine a type of cleaning activity being performed by a user using the vacuum cleaner; and in response to determining that the type of cleaning activity comprises one or more of: spot cleaning, crevice cleaning, and elevated cleaning, increase the power of the vacuum motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Massimo CAMPLANI, Andrew Collingwood WATSON, David Alan MILLINGTON, Nathan LAWSON MCLEAN
  • Accessory for a hairdryer
    Patent number: D1000703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Drummond Flynn, Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Ayrton Lloyd Taylor Peel, Thomas Christopher Purnell, Robert Mark Brett Coulton, David Andrew Tibbetts, Brian Jen Yon Wong, Dinar Tirta Suraja Ong
  • Accessory for a hairdryer
    Patent number: D1000704
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Drummond Flynn, Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Ayrton Lloyd Taylor Peel, Thomas Christopher Purnell, Robert Mark Brett Coulton, David Andrew Tibbetts, Brian Jen Yon Wong, Dinar Tirta Suraja Ong