baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2395516-A (GB)
Title: Gripping device comprising multiple tapered slots for a bag or cord
Inventor: MAIDMENT LESLIE
IPC: F16G11/10
Filed: 2002-10-11
Abstract: A device 1 comprising at least three tapered slots 6, 7, 8 for gripping the mouth of a bag, a cord or other flexible article. The slots 6, 7, 8 are slightly displaced relative to each other such that the twisted mouth-end of the bag or the cord may be held taut and may be simultaneously entered into all of the slots. The bag or cord may then be drawn down towards the narrow end of the slots such that it is held within the device. To release the bag or cord can be pulled back along the slots to their point of entry. In one embodiment the device comprises four vertically aligned fingers 2, 3, 4, 5. In another embodiment, the device comprises two longitudinally slotted, concentric tubes 11, 12, closely coupled at the base of the device such that the device includes a tapered radial gap to compress and bend the bag or cord at four locations (figures 4-6).
Patent GB-2382697-A (GB)
Title: Method for selecting an ECG compression process based on computerised analysis of cardiac rythm and contour
Inventor: TAHA BASEL HASAN
IPC: H03M7/30
Filed: 2002-10-17
Abstract: A method of automatically selecting a physiological data manipulation process (200). After raw data including an asynchronous component having diagnostic information and including a synchronous component is received (210), the asynchronous component is separated (220) from the synchronous component. A data manipulation process based on the diagnostic information is automatically selected based on the signal conditions generated during an analysis process.
Patent GB-2393372-A (GB)
Title: Disposition of sheathed heating elements on a liquid heater base.
Inventor: SCOTT MICHAEL JAMES
IPC: H05B3/82
Filed: 2002-12-05
Abstract: A heater base assembly for a liquid heating vessel comprises a base member 2, 44 a first sheathed high powered heating element 6, 22, 40 in close thermal contact with said base member and a second lower power sheathed heating element 8, 24, 42 disposed substantially beneath or horizontally adjacent to said first heating element. The elements may be brazed to each other and directly onto the base plate, the lower element being brazed to a heat distribution plate 26 - fig 1,(fig6). Alternatively, the heat distribution plate 26 may separate the elements or may be interposed between the base plate and the elements - fig5b, (Figs 4,7). A step may be formed in the base to contain at least the high power element. Three or more elements may be present (figs 2a,2b,7).
Patent GB-2398692-A (GB)
Title: Colour correction
Inventor: RUSSELL MARK
IPC: H04N1/46
Filed: 2003-02-21
Abstract: Digital image processing apparatus for applying pixel-based colour correction to a hue-saturation-based polar representation of pixels of an input image to generate an output image comprises colour correction logic arranged to provide a colour mapping operation defined by a hue alteration amount and a key value associated with each pixel; the colour correction logic comprising: hue modifying logic for adding a proportion of the hue alteration amount to the hue of each pixel of the input image, the proportion depending on the key value associated with that pixel; and saturation modifying logic for modifying the saturation of each pixel in dependence on the hue alteration amount and the key value for that pixel, such that for a key value indicating that only a fraction of the hue alteration amount should be applied to a current pixel, the saturation of that pixel is also modified so that, when expressed with respect to a rectangular chrominance-based colour space, the pixel is moved to a position (710''') in that colour space substantially lying on a straight line between the original pixel position (710) and the position that the pixel would occupy if the full hue alteration amount were applied (710').
Patent GB-2401998-A (GB)
Title: Alarm system call point
Inventor: BOURNE JOHN FRANCESCO
IPC: H01R12/72
Filed: 2003-05-17
Abstract: A call point for an alarm system wherein connections between wires leading to the call point and an electrical circuit of the call point are established by a connector assembly comprising first 16 and second 15a or 15b connector elements having plug-in engagement with one another, the first connector element 16 being connected to the wires and the second connector element 15a or 15b being connected to the electrical circuit. There may be at least two second connector elements 15a, 15b providing different configurations of the electrical circuit when connected to the first connector element 16. The electrical circuit of the call point may be in the form of a circuit board 15 and the first connector element 16 may be an edge connector element. The call point may further include a switch 37 for changing the operating characteristics of the call point by selecting one of a plurality of resistors.
Patent GB-2402468-A (GB)
Title: Transparent barrier for a simulated solid fuel gas fire
Inventor: BYRNE WILLIAM ANTHONY
IPC: F24B1/18
Filed: 2003-06-06
Abstract: A heating apparatus 1 comprises a heat source 34 protected by a transparent barrier 36 in front of the heat source 34 and a passage 42 to allow gaseous flow to and from the heat source 34. The heat source 34 may be heat resistant imitation coals 34 stacked in a bowl 28 with one or more gas burners positioned within the bowl 28 and underneath the imitation coals 34. The transparent barrier 36 may be heat resistant borosilicate glass positioned in front of an aperture 24 in a front wall 20 of the heating apparatus 1 and may be parallel with the front wall 20 and mounted on four perpendicular pins 38, which define the size of the passage 42. In the event of a blocked exhaust flue or downdraught, exhaust gases cannot be exhausted and thus the passage 42 permits the exhaust gases to escape into the room, and although not ideal it does allow combustion to continue since fresh air may be drawn in by the passage and prevents the formation of dangerous gases from incomplete combustion. The barrier 36 may be a plurality of elongate parallel horizontally arranged glass strips (50, fig 3) spaced apart by gaps (52).
Patent GB-2402405-A (GB)
Title: Stackable batten support
Inventor: ANDERSON KEITH JAMES HUNTER
IPC: E04F15/024
Filed: 2003-06-06
Abstract: A stackable batten support <B>2</B> preferably has a plurality of upstanding lugs <B>6</B> between which a batten may be positioned. It may have at least one recess in its base <B>4</B> which receives the upstanding lugs of a corresponding batten support when stacked, and this recess may contain an insulating member. At least one of the lugs may have a locating member <B>14</B> to engage with the base. The support may be substantially circular and have a central fixing location <B>18</B> about which it can be rotated. Spacers <B>28</B> of rubber or foam may be inserted into the support, preferably in between the lugs, to incrementally fix its height. The base may be hollow and have a grid of supporting ribs <B>26</B>, fig 4. The batten support may be made of plastic and may be used particularly for sound insulated flooring or in walls and ceilings to isolate timbers.
Patent GB-2403304-A (GB)
Title: Image and date information processing
Inventor: ROWE SIMON MICHAEL
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2003-06-25
Abstract: An image processing apparatus 2 processes image data defining an image or a sequence of images to read the recording date of the image(s), to access an electronic calendar in accordance with the recording date to determine national calendar information such as national events and the season of the year on the date that the image/image sequence was recorded, and to generate annotation data describing the image subject matter based upon the determined national calendar information. Each input image or sequence of images processed by the apparatus is stored in an image database together with the generated annotation data. The database can then be searched in accordance with text keywords input by a user to retrieve images having those keywords in the associated annotation data.
Patent GB-2392137-A (GB)
Title: A cleaning system for an inkjet printhead
Inventor: THIESSEN KURT E
IPC: B41J11/00
Filed: 2003-07-08
Abstract: The present invention includes a cleaning system (132) for an inkjet printhead (102) that includes a wiper (134) and a media detection device (136) coupled to the wiper (134) for activating engagement of the wiper (134) with the printhead (102) when no media (110) is detected and for deactivating the wiper (134) when media (110) contacts the media detection device (136).
Patent GB-2404393-A (GB)
Title: Battery or wire-line powered sonde for use in horizontal drilling
Inventor: FLING RICHARD WILLIAM
IPC: G01V11/00
Filed: 2003-07-31
Abstract: A data sonde for use in horizontal drilling includes an antenna for emitting a first modulated signal, the first signal having zero and non-zero emission components in different periods. The sonde also includes a receiver for receiving an intermittent second data signal during first signal emission periods. The mode of operation is such that the sonde can be used with either wireline or battery power with no alteration in circuitry being required.
Patent GB-2392690-A (GB)
Title: Ball dropping assembly
Inventor: PEDERSEN GERALD DEAN
IPC: E21B34/14
Filed: 2003-02-18
Abstract: A ball dropping assembly (350) for dropping one or more objects, such as spherical balls, (5,5' ,5") into a wellbore (7). The assembly comprises a seat (330) for retaining a ball before it is released. The assembly may also comprise a ball feeding channel (380) for feeding additional balls onto the seat. A ball retaining lever (40) is provided to selectively receive and retain balls onto the seat (330), and then to release the balls individually into the wellbore (6). In one embodiment, the assembly is attached to a side bore (4) in fluid communication with a main bore in a cementing head (105). The ball-retaining lever (40) rotates into the bore (6) when releasing a ball (5'). When a plug (8) is released into the bore from a cementing head (105), the plug (8) will trip the lever (40), causing the ball-retaining lever to rotate back towards the ball-retained position. Thus, the ball dropping assembly also serves as a plug release indicator
Patent GB-2396223-A (GB)
Title: Progressive power lens
Inventor: SATO HIROSHI
IPC: G02C7/02
Filed: 2003-10-17
Abstract: A progressive power lens belonging to a series of lenses is provided. If a first lens and a second lens from the series of progressive power lenses have a common spherical refractive power Sph [diopter] in the distance portions thereof, the Sph is greater than or equal to +1, and a base curve BC1 of the first lens is smaller than a base curve BC2 of the second lens, the first and second lenses satisfy a condition: <EMI ID=2.1 HE=25 WI=104 LX=417 LY=1453 TI=MF> Various other lens sets are specified, all sets being made up of progressive power lenses having distance, middle and near sections. The lenses are specifically designed to provide a wide clear vision section in the middle part of the lens.
Patent GB-2407332-A (GB)
Title: Prefabricated wash room pod for installation in building unit
Inventor: LYDDON CHRIS JEREMY
IPC: A47K4/00
Filed: 2003-10-22
Abstract: A wash room pod 12 comprises a pod 12 and a water trap apparatus 16. The water trap apparatus 16 is attached at a first end region (18, fig 2) of the pod 12, below a water exit point 24, such that it does not penetrate a (preferably sub-floor) fire proof 8 / vapour barrier 10 layer of a building unit 1 into which the wash room pod 12 is installable but extends out through a side wall 6 of the building unit 1. The apparatus 16 has a base wall (30, fig 6) and a trap 26 extending downwardly from the base wall (30) and arranged so that it is outside of the building unit 1. Elements of the pod such as the water trap apparatus 16 and a building unit 1 containing the pod 12 are also claimed.
Patent GB-2394973-A (GB)
Title: Sealing between two well pipes
Inventor: HENNEICKE FRIEDRICH
IPC: F16J15/00
Filed: 2003-11-03
Abstract: A sealing system is for the interspace in the transition region between two well pipes of different diameters, and a mounting tool for producing the sealing connection. The mounting tool (1), fig 1a, with the sealing system 13 suspended on it is lowered via a drilling string through the pipe of larger diameter and, with the sealing system, is placed on a holding socket 3, fig 2a, on upper end of the lower pipe of smaller diameter. By means of a rotation exerted on the mounting tool via the drilling string, the sealing system is fixed to the lower pipe. Via the drilling string, the mounting tool is pressed vertically downwards against a sealing ring of the sealing system which, as a result, bears in a sealing manner against the inner wall of the upper pipe of larger diameter. This sealing position is fixed by rotating the mounting tool in one direction; by rotating the mounting tool in the other direction, the mounting tool is released from the sealing system and pulled upwards again via the drilling string.
Patent GB-2393543-A (GB)
Title: Self-contained network browser
Inventor: CHANG RONG-WEN
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2000-06-20
Abstract: A computer BIOS or firmware contains a browser which may operates on boot up of the computer. The browser can contain a kernel and various modules in order to provide memory management, peripheral control and network data handling and display. The browser does not, therefore, require that the general purpose operating system be loaded. A trigger can be set to cause the operation of the browser. The browser can run either before the main operating system is started or after it is shut down. The advantage of placing browser with its own operating system modules in the firmware of a computer is that a user can access the internet without having to fully boot the main operating system as is usually required.
Patent GB-2410010-A (GB)
Title: An air-bag arrangement with inlet and exhaust pipes
Inventor: BRONNER JEROME
IPC: B60R21/26
Filed: 2004-01-19
Abstract: An air-bag arrangement incorporates an air-bag (11). The air-bag has a gas inlet pipe (20) to supply gas to the interior of the air-bag. The air-bag has a substantially rigid gas exhaust pipe (21) to exhaust gas from the air-bag in the event that high gas pressure should be experienced. The part of the air-bag into which the gas is injected is bounded by fold-lines (33, 34). When the air-bag is mounted on part of a safety-belt and is inflated, should the user of the air-bag be leaning forwardly, tending to compress the air-bag, gas will be exhausted from the interior of the air-bag, minimising the risk of injury. Fabric reinforcement sleeve (17) acts as a collapsible non-return valve potentially preventing gas from flowing out of the sleeve. The air bag has seat belt mounts (16).
Patent GB-2411724-A (GB)
Title: Water level alarm
Inventor: KRONBAUER MIRIAM
IPC: G01F23/70
Filed: 2004-03-05
Abstract: A water level alarm comprises a housing 5 containing a float 2, a membrane 4, a loud speaker device 6 and a battery 7. In use, for example in a bath tub, swimming pool or other vessel, when the water level reaches the bottom of the housing the float rises putting pressure on the membrane which pushes the loud speaker device into contact with the battery, closing the circuit and emitting an audible alarm that the desired water level has been reached. The alarm is positioned using a counterweight 11 attached to the housing by a flexible link 10; the device can then be draped over the edge of the vessel and the position adjusted to the desired height.
Patent GB-2414129-A (GB)
Title: Inspection system linking image frame with distance travelled
Inventor: HATCH CLIVE
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2004-05-13
Abstract: In a CCTV inspection system, images generated by a camera 5 travelling along an inspection site 1, such as a sewer or other pipeline, are recorded as a plurality of frames. The distance travelled by the camera from a start point 2 to a point of interest 3 is also recorded, via a cable counter or GPS system, and used to identify the particular image frame corresponding to the displacement at the point of interest 3. Alternatively, the time taken for the camera to move from an initial point to the point of interest may be recorded, and used to determine the required frame. An audio signal relating to the time or distance data may be provided. The time, distance and frame data may be cross referenced with a map of the inspection site.
Patent GB-2415950-A (GB)
Title: Hand-held dispensing device for two component mixtures
Inventor: PENN LAURENCE RICHARD
IPC: B01F15/04
Filed: 2004-07-07
Abstract: A dispensing device 30 for a two component mixture, such as an adhesive, has supply conduits 36, 37 for the two mixture components. The two components are metered to a predetermined ratio by metering devices within the dispenser. The metering devices are driven by motor M under the control of a signal from a trigger located in the handle. The metering devices may be in the form of a moveable shuttle configured to dispense shots of a known volume of each component, which are then mixed in a mixer prior to dispensing. The dispensing device may be used in a factory and suspended by means 47, 48 to balance the effect of gravity.
Patent GB-2404481-A (GB)
Title: Smoke alarm and mounting kit
Inventor: MCGREAL TIMOTHY R
IPC: G08B17/10
Filed: 2003-04-11
Abstract: A mounting kit and smoke detecting apparatus (30) releasably mountable to a support surface (32), including a smoke detector weighing W, a support plate (36) securable to the support surface and releasably securable to the smoke detector by separating force of Y, and a longitudinal member (34) having a proximate end graspable by a user and a distal end releasably securable to the smoke detector.
Patent GB-2421218-A (GB)
Title: Computer input device
Inventor: MICKELBOROUGH PHILIP JOHN
IPC: G06F3/0354
Filed: 2004-12-20
Abstract: A device (1) for data entry into a computer, PDA or mobile phone is provided, comprising thumb and finger touch pads (5,3), arranged on the device in a pattern corresponding to the natural thumb and finger tip positions of the thumb and fingers when relaxed; each finger pad (3) extending in backward and forward directions; the thumb pad (5) extending in left and right directions; position detecting means to detect the position of the thumb and each finger tip along each of the thumb and finger pads (5,3); finger data selection means to select for each finger a character or instruction corresponding to the detected position of a finger tip when in contact with a finger pad (3); thumb option selection means to select an option corresponding to the detected position of the thumb when in contact with the thumb pad (5); data entry detecting means to detect lifting of a finger from a finger pad (3) and enter a character or instruction into the computer, PDA or mobile phone based on the character or instruction selected on the finger pad (3) for which lifting is detected and based on the option selected on the thumb pad (5). Instead of touch pads, pressure cups can be used.
Patent GB-2421614-A (GB)
Title: Subterranean communication system
Inventor: JEFFRYES BENJAMIN PETER
IPC: E21B47/14
Filed: 2004-12-21
Abstract: A system and method are described in particular for communicating to a device 54 deployed in a well bore 66. Seismic signals are transmitted from a vibrator unit 22 comprising a vibrator 71 including a baseplate in contact with the ground 24. The vibrations travel though the earth e.g. rock formations 26, outside of the wellbore, to a sensor package 70, where they are sensed and may be used to initiate control of the device 54. Acknowledgement of the receipt of the vibrations may be signalled to the surface using channels within the wellbore 66, e.g. wireline, tubing or by mud pulse. In an alternative arrangement, for subsea use, the seismic source is a marine vibrator, sending vibrations through the ocean, into the sea-bed strata and thence to the borehole sensors. To adjust the transmissions, the vibrator may send signals initially to shallow sensors, where detection can provide information on the transfer function of the seismic channel, which can then be used to pre-filter the transmissions to the deeper sensors and downhole device.
Patent GB-2406047-A (GB)
Title: Dynamically balanced seat assembly
Inventor: SERBER HECTOR
IPC: A47C1/022
Filed: 2003-06-18
Abstract: A seat assembly (21) including a seat (22), a backrest (23) and a mounting assembly (24) mounting the seat (22) in a near horizontal orientation for movement along an upwardly concaved arcuate seat path having a center of curvature (37) proximate the center of mass (39) of a person seated on the seat, and the mounting assembly (24) further mounting the backrest (23) in a near vertical orientation for movement independently of the seat along a forwardly concaved arcuate path having a center curvature (37) proximate the center of mass (39) of the person. An adjustment assembly (61) is provided for adjusting the radius of curvature of the path of motion of the backrest (23). Also provided are a backrest tilt adjustment assembly (71), an armrest adjustment assembly (90), a seat biasing assembly (110) and a seat motion latching assembly (111). A method of self-adjusting support and alignment of a backrest also is disclosed.
Patent GB-2410572-A (GB)
Title: A method of controlling a processing base
Inventor: OKADA KEIJI
IPC: H01L21/677
Filed: 2005-01-28
Abstract: A method of controlling a mover device 10F that includes: a fixed base 11F; a movable base 12F that is moveable in a linear direction with respect to the fixed base; a processing base 13F that is movable in a linear direction with respect to the movable base, and an actuator 154 that is provided between the processing base and the movable base. The method includes the steps of: moving the processing base with respect to the movable base, thereby moving the processing base with respect to the fixed base, moving the movable base on the fixed base in the opposite direction to the direction of the processing base by virtue of a reaction force caused by moving the processing base, so that the movable base moves in the opposite direction to the moving direction of the processing base on the fixed base; and controlling the moving velocity of the processing base with respect to the fixed base.
Patent GB-2407897-A (GB)
Title: Controller for automatically manipulating a horn signal for navigational purposes
Inventor: VOGEL DAVID A
IPC: B63B45/08
Filed: 2003-07-30
Abstract: A system and method for a horn controller (10) is provided that automatically operates a vessel's horn as a fog horn (16). The controller (10) automatically causes the vessel's horn to sound according to the proper foghorn sounding schedule. The horn controller (10) is designed to be installed in a new vessel, and/or to be retrofitted to an existing vessel.
Patent GB-2420185-A (GB)
Title: Ophthalmoscope
Inventor: BURROWS CLIVE HAROLD THOMAS
IPC: A61B3/15
Filed: 2004-08-25
Abstract: An ophthalmoscope has illuminating optics (10) for projecting a beam of light into an eye under examination and imaging optics (14) for creating an image of said eye for viewing by a user. The imaging optics comprises an objective lens system (16) and an eye piece lens system (20). Two corneal reflex stops (138 and 148) are positioned one on either side of the corneal image formed by the objective lens system. The stops block reflections from the cornea of the eye under examination over a range of distances of the ophthalmoscope from the eye. The use of the two corneal reflex stops results in the precise positioning of the ophthalmoscope relative to the eye under examination not being critical to the blocking of the corneal reflex.