Patents by Inventor Peter Knight

Peter Knight has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12263361
    Abstract: A head wearable air purifier is provided. The head wearable air purifier includes a first speaker assembly and a second speaker assembly. The first speaker assembly includes a filter assembly, a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, and an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting a filtered airflow from the speaker assembly. The head wearable air purifier further includes a nozzle and a control circuit. The nozzle is arranged to receive the filtered airflow from the first speaker assembly. Further, the nozzle includes an air outlet arranged to emit the received filtered airflow from the head wearable air purifier. The control circuit is arranged to control a rotational speed of the motor-driven impeller of the first speaker assembly such that the maximum rotational speed of the motor-driven impeller is from 9,000 to 18,000 RPM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Philip Stephen Darling, Matthew Jerome Jennings, Peter Knight Reid
  • Patent number: 12250510
    Abstract: There is provided an ear cup including a housing containing a filter assembly and a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, the housing including an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting the filtered airflow from the housing. The ear cup further includes an acoustic driver carried by the housing, a reference internal noise sensor carried by the housing, and active noise control circuitry that is configured to use a signal provided by the reference internal noise sensor to operate the acoustic driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter Knight Reid, Philip Stephen Darling
  • Publication number: 20250037685
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for chime damping. A chime includes a suspension element from which hangs a sound generating element, such as one or more chime tubes or a side wall of a bell chime. A cord retractor is affixed to the suspension element and a center cord is secured to the cord retractor to be windable and unwindable between retracted and extended positions. A damper, a clapper, and/or a windcatcher are affixed to the center cord. Moving the center cord between retracted and extended positions alters the relative position of the damper, the clapper, and/or the windcatcher with respect to the suspension element and the sound generating element to cause noise generation or noise damping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventor: Peter Knight
  • Patent number: 12189362
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a component of an abatement apparatus is disclosed. The method comprises: meshing a 3D model representation of a component defining a reaction chamber of an abatement apparatus based on specified component characteristics to define an optimised finite element representation of the component; and fabricating the optimised finite element representation. In this way, a 3D model of a component of an abatement apparatus can be generated from which its performance can be modelled. Particular characteristics of the component may be defined which affect the operation of the abatement apparatus. Those characteristics may then be used to generate the optimized finite element representation of the component which has those characteristics using meshing (it will be appreciated that meshing is the operation of representing a geometric object as a set of finite elements).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Andrew James Seeley, Gary Peter Knight, Duncan Michael Price, Mayank Verma
  • Publication number: 20240381519
    Abstract: Aspects and embodiments relate to plasma torch device component monitoring, a plasma torch device component monitoring system and a plasma torch device including such a monitoring system or suitable for use with such a system. The monitoring method comprises: collecting electromagnetic radiation generated by a plasma torch in a plasma torch device; analysing the collected electromagnetic radiation generated by the plasma torch; comparing the analysed electromagnetic radiation generated to known electromagnetic radiation associated with one or more components of the plasma torch device; and triggering one or more actions in the event that the analysed emission differs from the known emission. Such a monitoring method can allow for ameliorative action to be taken in the event that degradation of one or more components forming the device is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Gary Peter Knight, Erik Wagenaars, Neil Condon, Simone Magni
  • Patent number: 12062355
    Abstract: There is provided an ear cup including a housing containing a filter assembly and a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, the housing including an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting the filtered airflow from the housing. The ear cup further includes an acoustic driver mounted to the housing, a reference internal noise disposed within the housing and a reference ambient noise mounted to the housing. The ear cup further includes active noise control circuitry that is configured to simultaneously use both a signal provided by the reference internal noise and the signal provided by the reference ambient noise to operate the acoustic driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter Knight Reid, Philip Stephen Darling
  • Publication number: 20240227746
    Abstract: A chock charging stand provides a framework for retaining an inductive charging plate for charging one or more chocks. Chocks may have light source(s) to emit light during low-light conditions. Chocks may charge using inductance, wired connection, and/or renewable energy production. Chocks may have transmitter-receivers for communicating with a master control and/or smart device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Peter Knight
  • Patent number: 12014715
    Abstract: There is provided an ear cup including a housing containing a filter assembly and a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, the housing including an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting the filtered airflow from the housing. The ear cup further includes an acoustic driver carried by or mounted to, either directly or indirectly, the housing, a reference internal noise sensor disposed within the housing, and a reference ambient noise sensor carried by or mounted to, either directly or indirectly, the housing. The ear cup further includes active noise control circuitry that is configured, in a first operating state, to use a signal provided by the reference internal noise sensor to operate the acoustic driver and, in a second operating state, to use a signal provided by the reference ambient noise sensor to operate the acoustic driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter Knight Reid, Philip Stephen Darling
  • Patent number: 12002439
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for chime damping. A chime includes a suspension element from which hangs a sound generating element, such as one or more chime tubes or a side wall of a bell chime. A cord retractor is affixed to the suspension element and a center cord is secured to the cord retractor to be windable and unwindable between retracted and extended positions. A damper, a clapper, and/or a windcatcher are affixed to the center cord. Moving the center cord between retracted and extended positions alters the relative position of the damper, the clapper, and/or the windcatcher with respect to the suspension element and the sound generating element to cause noise generation or noise damping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Hayes-Ivy Mfg., Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Knight
  • Publication number: 20240179826
    Abstract: Aspects relate to monitorable plasma torch device components and in particular to monitoring and predictive maintenance of one or more such monitorable plasma torch device components. One aspect provides a monitorable plasma torch device component, the component comprising: a component body and a sacrificial component located in an erosion zone of the component body. The sacrificial component comprises material which differs from the plasma torch device component body and which, on exposure to a plasma torch in a plasma torch device, generates electromagnetic radiation distinct from that of the plasma torch device component body. The distinct electromagnetic radiation generated is indicative of erosion of the monitorable plasma torch device component in the erosion zone. Such a monitorable plasma torch device component can facilitate effective component monitoring which allows for ameliorative action to be taken in the event that degradation of the device component is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Gary Peter Knight, Erik Wagenaars, Neil Condon, Simone Magni
  • Publication number: 20230397515
    Abstract: A ground aeration device is described herein. The ground aeration device includes an air supply connector for receiving pressurised air from a source, a first supporting element for supporting a drill element for insertion into the ground, and a hydraulic hammer means. The drill element includes a cavity operably connected to an aperture a pneumatic means operably connected to the air supply comprising an actuating means for controlling supply of pressurised air through the drill element. The pneumatic means is arranged on the first supporting element. The aeration device further comprises a second supporting element, slidably attached to the first supporting element. A hydraulic means is attached to the first and second supporting elements. The first supporting element being movable via the hydraulic means from an initial parked position to a first position relative to the second supporting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Peter Knight
  • Publication number: 20220182749
    Abstract: There is provided an ear cup including a housing containing a filter assembly and a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, the housing including an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting the filtered airflow from the housing. The ear cup further includes an acoustic driver carried by the housing, a reference internal noise sensor carried by the housing, and active noise control circuitry that is configured to use a signal provided by the reference internal noise sensor to operate the acoustic driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter Knight REID, Philip Stephen DARLING
  • Publication number: 20220180850
    Abstract: There is provided an ear cup including a housing containing a filter assembly and a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, the housing including an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting the filtered airflow from the housing. The ear cup further includes an acoustic driver carried by or mounted to, either directly or indirectly, the housing, a reference internal noise sensor disposed within the housing, and a reference ambient noise sensor carried by or mounted to, either directly or indirectly, the housing. The ear cup further includes active noise control circuitry that is configured, in a first operating state, to use a signal provided by the reference internal noise sensor to operate the acoustic driver and, in a second operating state, to use a signal provided by the reference ambient noise sensor to operate the acoustic driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter Knight REID, Philip Stephen DARLING
  • Publication number: 20220180851
    Abstract: There is provided an ear cup including a housing containing a filter assembly and a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, the housing including an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting the filtered airflow from the housing. The ear cup further includes an acoustic driver mounted to the housing, a reference internal noise disposed within the housing and a reference ambient noise mounted to the housing. The ear cup further includes active noise control circuitry that is configured to simultaneously use both a signal provided by the reference internal noise and the signal provided by the reference ambient noise to operate the acoustic driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter Knight REID, Philip Stephen DARLING
  • Publication number: 20220148557
    Abstract: There is provided an ear cup comprising a housing, an ear pad attached to the housing and arranged such that the housing and the ear pad together define a cavity having an opening, and an acoustic driver disposed within the cavity. The ear cup further comprises a feedforward microphone, a feedback microphone, and active noise control (ANC) circuitry. The active noise control (ANC) circuitry is configured to use a feedforward signal provided by the feedforward microphone to operate the acoustic driver to attenuate noise having frequencies within a feedforward ANC range having a lower limit of no less than 300 Hz and an upper limit of more than 1.5 kHz and to use a feedback signal provided by the feedback microphone to operate the acoustic driver to attenuate noise having frequencies within a feedback ANC range having an upper limit of no more than 1.5 kHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Peter Knight REID, Philip Stephen DARLING
  • Patent number: 11301493
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing data exploration techniques are provided. For instance, user inputs specifying one or more data parameters can be received. One or more data sets can be obtained from a data source based at least in part on the data parameters. The data can be grouped into one or more groupings based at least in part on the data parameters. Each data grouping can have a plurality of subsets. A distribution of data can be determined for each data subset. A plurality of data representations can be generated based at least in part on the data parameters and the distributions of data. The distributions of data for each data subset can then be compared. One or more suggested applications or at least one data subset can be determined based at least in part on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Hatice Mujde Ayik, Peter Knight
  • Patent number: 11200940
    Abstract: According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a memory array to block read-access of uninitialized memory locations is disclosed. The memory array includes: a plurality of memory cells apportioned into a plurality of memory columns and a plurality of memory rows, where each of the memory cells is configured to store a single bit of memory data; and one or more initialization columns corresponding to at least one of the plurality of memory columns. The initialization state of a memory row of the memory cells may be configured to be stored in: the memory row; a latch of word-line driver circuitry coupled to the memory array; or a memory cell of the one or more initialization columns of a corresponding row of the plurality of memory rows of the memory array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Pranay Prabhat, James Edward Myers, Graham Peter Knight
  • Publication number: 20210283544
    Abstract: There is provided a head wearable air purifier comprising a first speaker assembly and a second speaker assembly, wherein the first speaker assembly comprises a filter assembly, an impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, a motor arranged to drive the impeller and an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting a filtered airflow from the first speaker assembly. The head wearable air purifier further comprises a nozzle arranged to receive the filtered airflow from the first speaker assembly, the nozzle comprising an air outlet arranged to emit the received filtered airflow from the head wearable air purifier. The impeller is a mixed flow impeller that has a generally conical or frusto-conical shape, and both the impeller and the motor are disposed within an impeller casing that is generally frusto-conical in shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Jerome JENNINGS, Peter Knight REID, James Mackey NELSON
  • Publication number: 20210260415
    Abstract: There is provided a head wearable air purifier comprising a first speaker assembly and a second speaker assembly, wherein the first speaker assembly comprises a filter assembly, a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, and an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting a filtered airflow from the speaker assembly. The head wearable air purifier further comprises a nozzle arranged to receive the filtered airflow from the first speaker assembly, the nozzle comprising an air outlet arranged to emit the received filtered airflow from the head wearable air purifier, and a control circuit arranged to control a rotational speed of the motor-driven impeller of the first speaker assembly such that the maximum rotational speed of the motor-driven impeller is from 9000 to 18,000 RPM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Philip Stephen DARLING, Matthew Jerome JENNINGS, Peter Knight REID
  • Publication number: 20210223755
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a component of an abatement apparatus is disclosed. The method comprises: meshing a 3D model representation of a component defining a reaction chamber of an abatement apparatus based on specified component characteristics to define an optimised finite element representation of the component; and fabricating the optimised finite element representation. In this way, a 3D model of a component of an abatement apparatus can be generated from which its performance can be modelled. Particular characteristics of the component may be defined which affect the operation of the abatement apparatus. Those characteristics may then be used to generate the optimized finite element representation of the component which has those characteristics using meshing (it will be appreciated that meshing is the operation of representing a geometric object as a set of finite elements).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew James Seeley, Gary Peter Knight, Duncan Michael Price, Mayank Verma