Patents by Inventor STUART JOHN KITCHING
STUART JOHN KITCHING 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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Patent number: 11965784Abstract: A sensor for measuring the flex of a pole when exposed to one or more forces, the sensor including at least one magnet and Hall Effect sensor combination, wherein the at least one magnet and Hall effect sensor are at a predetermined position relative to one another when there are no forces acting on the pole and which are movable relative to one another when forces act on the pole, such that a signal proportional to the relative movement is generated by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventors: Stuart John Kitching, Daniel Bishop
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Patent number: 11422111Abstract: There is provided an integrity monitor configured to monitor the integrity of a component protection device. The component protection device comprises a protective medium to protect at least one electronic component, and having associated therewith a magnetic element and a Hall Effect sensor. The at least one of the magnetic element and the Hall Effect sensor is embedded within the protective medium and the Hall Effect sensor is located, when in use, to sense a magnetic field generated by the magnetic element. The integrity monitor has an input for receiving an output of the Hall Effect sensor indicative of the sensed magnetic field and the integrity monitor is configured to identify from the received output any change to the sensed magnetic field and determine, based on the change to the sensed magnetic field, an integrity of the component protection device.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventor: Stuart John Kitching
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Patent number: 11346725Abstract: A temperature sensor for a cold reference junction of a thermocouple is provided that may be incorporated permanently or removeably in a releasable connector having a first connector part arranged to engage releasably with a second connector part in which the thermocouple conductors terminate, so forming a cold reference junction for the thermocouple. When the two parts of the connector are engaged, the temperature sensor of the present invention is able to sense the temperature in the vicinity of a cold reference junction in the connector. The temperature sensor may be provided by embedding one or more thermistors into a flexible disk or plate-like seal able to fit around the conductors of the first connector part such that the thermistors make electrical contact with selected conductors of the first connector part and thermal contact with the cold reference junction.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventor: Stuart John Kitching
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Publication number: 20210008414Abstract: A system for measuring a rower profile of a rower; the system comprising one or more sensors located on an oar for measuring one or more forces imparted on the oar by the rower in use at a predetermined time; one or motion tracking devices for determining a position of the oar in space at the predetermined time; a processing module for interfacing with the one or more sensors and a remote monitoring device; and determining the rower profile from the sensor data and the one or more motion tracking devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventors: Daniel Bishop, Timothy Dewitt, Stuart John Kitching, Mark Allison
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Publication number: 20210003464Abstract: A sensor for measuring the flex of a pole when exposed to one or more forces, the sensor including at least one magnet and Hall Effect sensor combination, wherein the at least one magnet and Hall effect sensor are at a predetermined position relative to one another when there are no forces acting on the pole and which are movable relative to one another when forces act on the pole, such that a signal proportional to the relative movement is generated by the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventors: Stuart John Kitching, Daniel Bishop
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Publication number: 20200355648Abstract: There is provided an integrity monitor configured to monitor the integrity of a component protection device. The component protection device comprises a protective medium to protect at least one electronic component, and having associated therewith a magnetic element and a Hall Effect sensor. The at least one of the magnetic element and the Hall Effect sensor is embedded within the protective medium and the Hall Effect sensor is located, when in use, to sense a magnetic field generated by the magnetic element. The integrity monitor has an input for receiving an output of the Hall Effect sensor indicative of the sensed magnetic field and the integrity monitor is configured to identify from the received output any change to the sensed magnetic field and determine, based on the change to the sensed magnetic field, an integrity of the component protection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventor: Stuart John Kitching
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Publication number: 20200003630Abstract: A temperature sensor for a cold reference junction of a thermocouple is provided that may be incorporated permanently or removeably in a releasable connector having a first connector part arranged to engage releasably with a second connector part in which the thermocouple conductors terminate, so forming a cold reference junction for the thermocouple. When the two parts of the connector are engaged, the temperature sensor of the present invention is able to sense the temperature in the vicinity of a cold reference junction in the connector. The temperature sensor may be provided by embedding one or more thermistors into a flexible disk or plate-like seal able to fit around the conductors of the first connector part such that the thermistors make electrical contact with selected conductors of the first connector part and thermal contact with the cold reference junction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventor: STUART JOHN KITCHING