Patents by Inventor Stuart Coles
Stuart Coles 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).
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Publication number: 20240000276Abstract: A vacuum cleaning system including a robotic unit including a traction arrangement that defines a ground plane, and a docking interface for receiving a handheld vacuum cleaner. The docking interface defines a suction port, an electrical port, and a predefined interface geometry. The docking interface is reconfigurable from a first configuration for engaging with a first handheld vacuum cleaner, and a second configuration for engaging with a second handheld vacuum cleaner which is different to the first handheld vacuum cleaner. Conveniently, the system includes a robotic unit or module that is dockable or engageable with multiple handheld vacuum cleaners, thus allowing some flexibility with the type of machine that they are able to use with the robotic unit. This provides a cost effective solution for the user, because if the user upgrades their handheld vacuum cleaner that new handheld vacuum cleaner can still be used with the robotic unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: David Alan MILLINGTON, David Stuart COLE, David Christopher James NEWTON
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Publication number: 20230414051Abstract: A vacuum cleaning system including a robotic unit including a main body, a traction arrangement defining a ground plane and an articulated arm. The articulated arm includes an upper arm section and a lower arm section, wherein the upper arm section is attached to the main body at a shoulder joint, and wherein the lower arm section is attached to the upper arm section at an elbow joint, and an end effector is defined at a distal end of the lower arm section. The upper arm section includes a pair of generally parallel arm members which are connected between the shoulder joint and the elbow joint and which are configured to define a yoke at the elbow joint at which the lower arm section is connected. The vacuum cleaning system equipped with a robotic arm that is able to bend and flex due to the pivotable upper and lower arm portions and has flexibility in how the robotic arm is driven and how suction is routed through the machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Samuel Finistair da Conceicao FOSS, Andrew James SHAW, David Stuart COLE
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Publication number: 20230404339Abstract: A vacuum cleaning system including a robotic unit including a traction arrangement, a docking interface and an articulated arm defining an end effector. The end effector includes a suction tool. The robotic unit defines a suction flow path which extends from the suction tool to the docking interface. The system further includes a handheld vacuum cleaner configured to be docked with the docking interface, the handheld vacuum cleaner including a vacuum motor for drawing air through the suction flow path when docked with the docking interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Andrew James SHAW, David Stuart COLE, David Christopher James NEWTON
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Publication number: 20230404340Abstract: A vacuum cleaning system including a robotic unit including a traction arrangement, a docking interface and an articulated arm defining an end effector. The end effector includes a suction tool. The robotic unit defines a suction flow path which extends from the suction tool to the docking interface. The system further includes a handheld vacuum cleaner configured to be docked with the docking interface, the handheld vacuum cleaner including a vacuum motor for drawing air through the suction flow path when docked with the docking interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Andrew James SHAW, David Christopher James NEWTON, David Stuart COLE
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Publication number: 20230404338Abstract: A vacuum cleaning system including a robotic unit including a traction arrangement, and a docking interface for receiving a handheld vacuum cleaner, and a handheld vacuum cleaner configured to be docked with the docking interface. The handheld vacuum cleaner includes a vacuum motor for drawing air through a suction flow path defined by the robot unit when docked with the docking interface. The handheld vacuum cleaner includes a main body from which extends a battery pack. When the handheld vacuum cleaner is docked with the docking interface, it is configured such that the battery pack extends over the top of at least part of the robotic unit. Conveniently, the robotic unit and the handheld vacuum cleaner may share one or more common suction tools, which means that both machines can be optimised for the surfaces they are intended to clean.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: David Christopher James NEWTON, David Stuart COLE
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Publication number: 20230397786Abstract: A vacuum cleaning system including a robotic unit including a main body, a traction arrangement defining a ground plane, and an articulated arm. The articulated arm includes an upper arm section and a lower arm section, wherein the upper arm section is attached to the main body at a shoulder joint, and wherein the lower arm section is attached to the upper arm section at an elbow joint, and wherein an end effector is defined at a distal end of the lower arm section. The articulated arm is configured such that the end effector is movable angularly about a first axis with respect to the elbow joint and is movable linearly along a second axis with respect to the elbow joint. The vacuum cleaning system equipped with a robotic arm that is able to bend and flex due to the pivotable upper and lower arm portions, but also extend and rotate through the lower arm or ‘forearm’ portion, providing improved dexterity for the machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: David Stuart COLE, Frederick Jack WHITTEN, David Christopher James NEWTON, Samuel Finistair da Conceicao FOSS
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Patent number: 11560483Abstract: The present disclosure relates to agents, compositions, and methods for inhibiting corrosion in various substrates, for example in metal substrates. The present disclosure also relates to compositions for inhibiting corrosion comprising at least one organic heterocyclic compound and at least one metal salt or mixed metal salt selected from rare earth, alkali earth and transition metals.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: James Ivan Mardel, Ivan Stuart Cole, Paul Andrew White, Anthony Ewart Hughes, Tracey Anne Markley, Timothy Graham Harvey, Joseph Osborne, Erik Sapper
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Publication number: 20220222823Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for the simulation of the upper airway of a subject. One embodiments provides a method (100) including the initial step (101) of receiving one or more tomographic images of the subject. At step (102) a three dimensional geometric model of the upper airway is generated from the one or more tomographic images. The geometric model includes a network of interconnected deformable mesh elements collectively defining a fluid domain (310) and a solid domain (320). The solid domain (320) defining a single unitary model of the entire upper airway region segmented into a plurality of predefined geometric regions, each being defined by one or more common anatomical parameters. At step (103), a computer simulation is performed on the geometric model to simulate behaviour of the upper airway when the subject is positioned in a predefined position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Omid Bafkar, Vu Thua Nguyen, Gary Rosengarten, Ivan Stuart Cole, Stefan Gulizia
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Publication number: 20210095136Abstract: The present disclosure relates to agents, compositions, and methods for inhibiting corrosion in various substrates, for example in metal substrates. The present disclosure also relates to compositions for inhibiting corrosion comprising at least one organic heterocyclic compound and at least one metal salt or mixed metal salt selected from rare earth, alkali earth and transition metals.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: James Ivan MARDEL, Ivan Stuart Cole, Paul Andrew White, Anthony Ewart Hughes, Tracey Anne Markley, Timothy Graham Harvey, Joseph Osborne, Erik Sapper
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Patent number: 10928513Abstract: A method for inspecting a conduit comprising the steps of: emitting an outgoing signal into the conduit to establish an acoustic plane wave within the conduit; and detecting a reflected outgoing signal from the conduit, wherein the outgoing signal is arranged such that low frequency components contribute to more of the outgoing signal, from a time perspective, than high frequency components.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: REECE INNOVATION CENTRE LIMITEDInventors: James Martin, Reza Tamadoni, Luke Griffiths, Rebecca Sills, Simone Stuart-Cole, Ralf Ferber
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Patent number: 10800929Abstract: The present disclosure relates to agents, compositions, and methods for inhibiting corrosion in various substrates, for example in metal substrates. The present disclosure also relates to compositions for inhibiting corrosion comprising at least one organic heterocyclic compound and at least one metal salt or mixed metal salt selected from rare earth, alkali earth and transition metals.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: James Ivan Mardel, Ivan Stuart Cole, Anthony Ewart Hughes, Paul Andrew White, Tracey Anne Markley, Timothy Graham Harvey, Joseph Osborne, Erik Sapper
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Publication number: 20190310364Abstract: A method for inspecting a conduit comprising the steps of: emitting an outgoing signal into the conduit to establish an acoustic plane wave within the conduit; and detecting a reflected outgoing signal from the conduit, wherein the outgoing signal is arranged such that low frequency components contribute to more of the outgoing signal, from a time perspective, than high frequency components.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: James MARTIN, Reza TAMADONI, Luke GRIFFITHS, Rebecca SILLS, Simone STUART-COLE, Ralf FERBER
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Publication number: 20180105702Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to the agents, compositions, and methods for inhibiting corrosion in various substrates, for example in metal substrates. The compositions for inhibiting corrosion comprise at least one organic heterocyclic compound and at least one metal salt or mixed metal salt selected from rare earth, alkali earth and transition metals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: James Ivan MARDEL, Ivan Stuart COLE, Paul Andrew WHITE, Anthony Ewart HUGHES, Tracey Anne MARKLEY, Timothy Graham HARVEY, Joseph OSBORNE, Erik SAPPER
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Patent number: 9868803Abstract: This invention relates to colored polymer, a process for their preparation, electrophoretic fluids comprising such particles, and electrophoretic display devices comprising such fluids.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Louise Diane Farrand, Nils Greinert, Claire Topping, Jonathan Henry Wilson, Simon Biggs, Olivier Cayre, Simon Lawson, Alexandre Richez, Simone Stuart-Cole
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Publication number: 20170363571Abstract: An electrochemical testing system, including: a testing board including: a plurality of testing wells, each well including a first well portion for holding a workpiece to be tested and bringing a first surface of the workpiece into contact with a separate working electrode lead for each testing well, a second well portion for holding a testing media and bringing a second surface of the workpiece into contact with the testing media, and a sealing mechanism for preventing contact of the testing media and the first surface of the workpiece; a media delivery system for selectively delivering the testing media into the second well portion; at least one sensing head for securing one or more electrochemical sensing elements at least one of which is adapted to form part of an electro chemical circuit with the testing media, workpiece and working electrode lead for each testing well, each testing well being electrically and physically isolated from other testing wells; testing apparatus for measuring electrochemical aType: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2015Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Michael Breedon, Ivan Stuart Cole
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Patent number: 9651846Abstract: This invention relates to particles for electrophoretic displays, a process for their preparation, electrophoretic fluids comprising such particles, and electrophoretic display devices comprising such fluids.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Louise Diane Farrand, Jonathan Henry Wilson, Simon Biggs, Olivier Cayre, Simon Lawson, Alexandre Richez, Simone Stuart-Cole
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Publication number: 20150123049Abstract: This invention relates to particles for electrophoretic displays, a process for their preparation, electrophoretic fluids comprising such particles, and electrophoretic display devices comprising such fluids.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Louise Diane Farrand, Jonathan Henry Wilson, Simon Biggs, Olivier Cayre, Simon Lawson, Alexandre Richez, Simone Stuart-Cole
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Patent number: D821107Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: iCandy World LimitedInventors: Paul Walker, Stuart Cole
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Patent number: D826794Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: iCandy World LimitedInventors: Paul Walker, Warren Appel, Stuart Cole
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Patent number: D906900Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: iCandy World LimitedInventors: Paul Walker, Warren Appel, Stuart Cole, Joshua Baker