baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2593694-A (GB)
Title: Drogue assembly for air-to-air engagement
Inventor: ANDREW CAMPBELL
IPC: B64D39/00
Filed: 2020-03-30
Abstract: A drogue assembly 10 has a coupling for engaging with a probe 20 on a receiver aircraft 21, and a stabilising chute 18, the drogue also has a processor (fig.3,4) in communication with at least one LiDAR sensor (fig.3,5) for processing LiDAR data, and a LiDAR controller. A turbine 9 may be located in a front region of the drogue attached to a generator rotor to convert kinetic energy of airflow over the drogue into electrical energy to charge a battery (fig.3,3) / cell / capacitor powering the sensor, controller and processor. Preferably the LiDAR generates a dot map image (fig.2,25) of an object in a scanning field 15 behind the drogue; the processor has image recognition functions to locate and track the probe and calculate its position relative to an entrance of the coupling. The drogue may have a shifting system with aerodynamic steering flaps 22 which are selectively deployed causing a net force to act on the drogue, displacing it transversely relative to the drogue axis Z. The processor may iteratively calculate a corrective direction and apply this to the shifting system to guide the drogue towards alignment and docking with the probe.
Patent GB-2580844-A (GB)
Title: Method of forming a protected connection and connector comprising said connection
Inventor: DELWYN EVANS
IPC: H05K3/32
Filed: 2019-03-13
Abstract: A method of forming a protected connection between a first connecting element, optionally mounted on a support (202), and a second connecting element, the method comprising: (i) depositing a protective material (210) on the first connecting element and/or on the support; (ii) optionally depositing an overlying coating (212) on the protective material; and (iii) pushing the second connecting element and establishing a connection between the first connecting element and the second connecting element, the connection being protected by the protective material.
Patent GB-2595456-A (GB)
Title: Collaboration system
Inventor: RYAN IAN STABLES
IPC: H04H60/04
Filed: 2020-05-24
Abstract: A system for providing concurrent access to an audio session in a digital audio workstation (DAW) - the audio session comprising plural elements and controllable parameters - comprises: a server to manage adjustments to the value or status of parameters in plural elements in an audio session; a first client device comprising a user interface, the first client in communication with the server, allowing a first user to access the audio session; a second client device comprising a user interface, in communication with the server, allowing a second user to access the audio session, wherein the first client receives, via the user interface, user input instruction to grant control of one or more elements of the audio session to a user of the second client device, and sends the instruction to the server. The server grants control of the one or more elements in the audio session to a user associated with the second client device, allowing adjustments to the value or status of parameter(s) in the element(s) by the second client device user. Also described is determination, based on predetermined rules configurable by a second user, whether control has been granted, and instructing a second client device to adjust an audio session parameter accordingly; and notification of audio session modification.
Patent GB-2593554-A (GB)
Title: Electrical arrangements
Inventor: STUART WILLIAM ANDREWS
IPC: H01J25/50
Filed: 2020-06-18
Abstract: An electrical arrangement, which may, for example be a magnetron, has a sealed chamber 12 and electrically insulating fluid contained within the chamber. A temperature expansion compensation bladder comprising a helical tube 13 is located within the chamber 12, the helical tube 13 having an end 15 open to ambient atmosphere outside the chamber 12 and having a closed end 14 within the chamber. As the temperature rises the volume of the insulating fluid increases and the helical tube contracts, compensating for the change and preventing excess pressure within the sealed chamber. This configuration allows it to be added to an existing design of an electrical arrangement without requiring a change in the form or outline of the electrical arrangement to accommodate it.
Patent GB-2598706-A (GB)
Title: Bird feeder apparatus
Inventor: STEVEN PETER MCNAMARA
IPC: A01K39/01
Filed: 2020-07-14
Abstract: A bird feeder apparatus with an enclosure comprising an outer wall defining a cavity. The outer wall has at least one mesh portion to restrict access of larger birds to the cavity. The mesh may be flexible polymer or metal. The mesh may have a plurality of apertures smaller than 10cm in dimension to allow access to smaller birds. In the cavity there is at least one bird feeder attachment member for attachment to at least one bird feeder. In used, the enclosure substantially surrounds the at least one birdfeeder. The attachment member is spaced at least 5cm from the wall of the enclosure. There is a support member for the enclosure which may be a hook or stand.
Patent GB-2597458-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle active suspension control system and method
Inventor: LUKE WILLIAM BIRCH
IPC: B60W10/22
Filed: 2020-07-21
Abstract: A control system and method for controlling an active suspension of a vehicle comprising a vehicle body and a plurality of wheels are provided. The control system comprises one or more controllers. The control system is configured to: receive information indicative of a requirement for ingress/egress of passengers and/or cargo 1202; receive information indicative that the ingress/egress is to occur with the vehicle on a sloped surface 1204; and control the active suspension (402, Figure 4) to reduce an angle of the vehicle body relative to horizontal 1210, 1212, 1214, for the ingress/egress on the sloped surface. The control system may have an electronic processor (22, Figure 2A) having instructions stored within, and may include a memory device and execute instructions. The system may tilt the vehicle body about a roll axis or pitch around a pitch axis. The control system may determine the height or angle difference between the vehicle body and ground; and control the active suspension to reduce the difference. The vehicle may be configured for autonomous driving.
Patent GB-2589436-A (GB)
Title: Graphics surface addressing
Inventor: ANTHONY P DELAURIER
IPC: G06T1/60
Filed: 2020-09-03
Abstract: A graphics processor (110) accesses a graphics surface (e.g. texture) based on a surface space address assigned to the surface. The processor configures, using a graphics program, multiple translations, wherein the program initially maps only a portion of the surface space to a virtual space. A first translator (120) accesses translation(s) for surface space pages, the translation(s) being stored (165) using virtual space addresses and mapping surface space pages to the virtual space, then translates address information for the surface space to address information in the virtual space based on the translation(s). The processor provides an address for access to the graphics surface based on translation(s) by the first translator, then a second translator (130) translates the address in the virtual space to an address in a physical space (155) of a memory (140) configured to store the graphics surface. Sparse allocation of large graphics surfaces can be achieved. The graphics surface may be 2D or 3D. Different surface spaces may be assigned to different graphics surfaces, and respective sets of translations may be stored for the different surface spaces. The first translator may cache translations e.g. in a first and a second level cache.
Patent GB-2595324-A (GB)
Title: Valve loader method, system, and apparatus
Inventor: Peter A Lambe
IPC: A61F2/95
Filed: 2020-12-21
Abstract: A medical device loader 106 – generally termed a ‘valve loader’ – comprises a housing 202 defining a cavity 214 for receiving a medical device / valve cartridge 104, the cartridge being configured to house the deployable medical device / valve (500, Fig 7). The housing also provides an actuator – preferably a plunger 220 - configured to direct the deployable medical device / valve from the cartridge to a discharge end of the housing, the discharge end being configured to receive a deployment apparatus 102, such as a deployment catheter, into which the medical device / valve may be loaded. The actuator (i.e plunger) may comprise a friction reducing component for reducing frictional contact with the deployable medical device / valve. The plunger preferably has a loading pin (800, Fig 31) at a distal end, the loading pin comprising a distal end (804, Fig 31) having a cross-sectional diameter that is lesser than that of a proximal end (802, Fig 31) of the pin.
Patent GB-2589029-A (GB)
Title: Stable-foam inhalation device and cartridge
Inventor: KLAUS HAGEN
IPC: A61M15/00
Filed: 2020-04-07
Abstract: A stable-foam inhalation-device (74, Fig 6) and a cartridge therefore. The cartridge houses, or is at least suitable for housing, first and second foam generation elements 26, 28. The foam generation elements are preferably housed in a mixing chamber 12 that is preferably flexible. The mixing chamber is preferably in fluid communication with an expansion chamber 14, with a partitioning element 16 therebetween, the partitioning element having mixing members (46, Fig 4) for agitating a foam. The inhalation device preferably has an outlet (82, Fig 6) for dispensing foam to the user, with a conduit connecting the cartridge therewith. The cartridge preferably provides a discharge element 18 having an outlet opening 54, an inlet opening 66 and a discharge conduit 64 which interconnects the inlet opening and outlet opening. The discharge conduit 64 preferably has a longitudinal extent which locates the inlet opening at a position closer to the partitioning element than to the outlet opening.
Patent GB-2595556-A (GB)
Title: Charge pump timing control
Inventor: DAVID M GIULIANO
IPC: H02M3/07
Filed: 2014-09-16
Abstract: A charge pump includes a plurality of switches 1, 2 arranged to operate at a switching frequency to provide charging and/or discharging paths with respect to one or more capacitors. The charge pump includes one or more internal sensors to measure voltage at one or more voltage nodes within the charge pump and/or current along one or more current paths within the charge pump. A controller adjusts the timing pattern of the switching of the charge pump based, at least in part, on one or more internal measurement signals of the one or more internal sensors. The charge pump may be coupled to one or more inductors (326, fig. 4) within a regulator connected to the charge pump. The charge pump may be a Dickson type charge pump.
Patent GB-2594022-A (GB)
Title: Branching or termination optical box for an optical cable in an optical-fiber network
Inventor: ANDERSON MARCELO STANCYK
IPC: G02B6/44
Filed: 2019-12-23
Abstract: The optical box (CX) comprises a tubular housing (10) having a closed end (10a) and an open end (10b) with an external thread (11), and a cover (20) designed to be fastened and locked on the open end (10b) of the tubular housing (10) by a retaining ring (50) with an internal thread (51) that is designed to engage with the external thread (11) of the housing (10), and a locking element (55) that is designed to engage with the lock-receiving element (25) of the cover (20), locking the retaining ring (50) to the cover (20) and to the housing (10). The cover (20) is traversed by an input adapter (AE) that can be coupled to an optical distribution cable (CD) and by output adapters (AS) in which user terminal cables (CT) can be coupled.
Patent GB-2614517-A (GB)
Title: Robotic space structure assembler and disassembler
Inventor: ADRIAN LYNLEY ASHLEY
IPC: B64G1/10
Filed: 2021-09-20
Abstract: A robotic space structure assembler and disassembler unit comprises: a plurality of robotic arms; a plurality of cameras; a plurality of solar panels; a plurality of propulsive means such that said robotic space structure assembler and disassembler unit can be repositioned; a plurality of orientation means such that said robotic space structure assembler and disassembler unit orientation can be determined by computational means; at least one robotic positioning means relative to other said robotic space structure assembler and disassembler unit; a container for construction members and other networked devices; at least one robotic status data means for situation data awareness; at least one robotic data network communications means between other said robotic space structure assembler and disassembler units; at least one robotic computational controller means; and a plurality of construction members with integral connection means for structure construction. The use of robotics to construct complex structures in space will remove the risk and maintain accuracy and consistency of the construction assembly and disassembly and record every interaction point. In addition, the concept has the potential for collecting space junk for disposal.
Patent GB-2611039-A (GB)
Title: Fixing bracket
Inventor: JAMES HAROLD BUSHELL
IPC: F16L41/00
Filed: 2021-09-22
Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing bracket 10 for attaching a fluid device (shower mixer valve) to a fixed surface and to end portions of a pair of fluid-carrying pipes 56. The bracket comprises mounting means comprising a base panel 12 having a first surface and an opposite second surface, and a pair of arms 14, 16 positioned either side on the base panel. Each arm receives a pipe connection means such that the pair of pipe connection means are retained in a spaced-apart configuration. The base panel abuts against the fixed surface via the first surface and the pair of pipe connection means protrude outwardly from the second surface towards the fluid device for allowing fluid connection between the fluid device and the end portions of the pair of fluid-carrying pipes. A later embodiment relates to a kit of parts comprising said fixing bracket.
Patent GB-2612302-A (GB)
Title: Hair growth promoting device and method
Inventor: JAMES DONALDSON FRAME
IPC: A61M35/00
Filed: 2021-10-19
Abstract: Apparatus 10 for preserving, promoting and/or resorting hair, the apparatus comprising an applicator, mountable on at least a part of the body and fluidically connected to a supply of nitric oxide (NO) (260, Fig 4a), for directing NO onto the body. In one arrangement, the apparatus is intended to be worn on the head and may comprises a cap, or dome, portion 11 having a number of substantially radial spokes 12, each spoke extend through a hub portion 20 and down the sides of the cap. The free ends of the spokes locate into apertures in a substantially elastic headband 30. Extending between the spokes is a web material 40, optionally transparent and preferably of plastics such as polyurethane, which defines an internal space, I, when apparatus is placed on the head of a user. Hub has a first, intake tube 22 through which NO enters internal space, and a second, outlet tube 24 through which air and NO from internal space is filtered and to remove the NO, before the air exits the device into the atmosphere.
Patent GB-2613841-A (GB)
Title: Stacked-winding stator electrical machine
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER ROGER LINES
IPC: H02K21/24
Filed: 2021-12-16
Abstract: A stacked-winding stator 1 for an axial flux electrical machine 100 with multi-phase power supply. The stator comprises a first stator portion 1a comprising a first plurality of conductive coils 12 and a second stator portion 1b comprising a second plurality of conductive coils 12. Each coil comprises at least one pair of active sections, where each section extends in a generally radial direction substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation 3 of the electrical machine wherein stator portions are axially aligned and each comprise spaces between adjacent active sections for receiving flux guides, the spaces in each stator portion are circumferentially aligned. Each coil in the first plurality is electrically connected to a corresponding coil in the second plurality forming a set of conductive coils. The spaces may be of two types and may receive a common guide, or a guide positioned within each set of spaces. Active sections may comprise a plurality of axially and/or circumferentially stacked winding turning portions. The sections may be axially offset or pitched apart in a circumferential direction, and wherein circumferentially adjacent coils circumferentially overlap. There may be two busbar arrangements, terminal portions and two or three rotors.
Patent GB-2598877-A (GB)
Title: Surgical drape
Inventor: AIDAN HIRD
IPC: A61B46/10
Filed: 2018-01-30
Abstract: A surgical robot arm drape 800 for providing a sterile barrier around a portion of a surgical robot arm comprising a joint, the drape configured to form an enclosure for receiving a portion of a surgical robot arm. In one arrangement, the enclosure has first 802 and third 806 regions separated by a second region 804, the second region comprising a material or configuration having a lower effective modulus than the first and third regions. Preferably, the second region comprises a material having a higher resilience than material of the first and third regions and/or the second region comprises a material which is thinner than material of the first and third regions. The material of the second region may be less constrained. The second region may comprise a ruckle control portion, such as a concertinaed configuration (908, Fig 9). In another arrangement, the drape comprises proximal and distal portions (400, 404, Fig 4b), arranged to be located proximal and distal of the arm joint respectively, and rotationally fast with the underlying portion of the arm. Each drape portion is freely rotable with respect to each other about the joint axis.
Patent GB-2614331-A (GB)
Title: Container for a viscous food product
Inventor: Donagh Murphy
IPC: B65D47/08
Filed: 2022-01-03
Abstract: A container for a viscous food product comprising a cup 2 having a rim 4, a portion of said rim defining an upwardly extending spout 6 to facilitate consumption of said viscous food product from the cup via said spout, a lid 10 adapted to be mounted on the rim of the cup to close the cup, a dispensing aperture 12 (figure 8) being provided in said lid adjacent the spout when the lid is attached to the cup, the lid incorporating a releasable closure 14 adapted to close the dispensing aperture when in a closed configuration, wherein said closure includes a portion 16 adapted to overlie the spout when the lid is attached to the cup and the closure is in its closed configuration. The closure may be integral with the lid. A tear guide 18/20 (figure 3) may be formed in the lid at the interface of the closure and dispensing aperture, permitting opening of the aperture and closure release.
Patent GB-2615098-A (GB)
Title: Can ends, metal cans and apparatus for dispensing therefrom
Inventor: Luke Steven Moreland
IPC: B65D17/42
Filed: 2022-01-27
Abstract: A tab-less metal can end 1 for seaming onto a metal can body, comprises a substantially circular planar panel 7, a chuck wall 3 extending around the periphery of the panel, defining a curl, and a discontinuous score 2 formed in said panel, following a circular path substantially concentric with said chuck wall, the score defining a hinge between first and second ends of the score. A dispenser adapted for use with the can comprises a lid 15 having features for removably securing the lid with respect to the can, the lid comprising a piercing member configured to fracture the score, for example a tube, and create an opening therethrough. A system for dispensing a product and comprising a can having a can body containing said product and a can end seamed onto the can body, and a dispenser. The panel being may include one or more concentric steps to define terraces. Sealing features for removably securing the lid directly to the can may be provided. Cooperating features of the lid and the main body may include screw threads. The end dispenser may be of a pump type.
Patent GB-2605695-A (GB)
Title: Metal-supported cell unit with flanged perimeter features
Inventor: MARK SELBY
IPC: H01M8/2432
Filed: 2020-10-22
Abstract: A metal-supported planar cell arrangement 870 comprises at least one pair of cells 805a,b, each cell comprising a metal substrate 110a-d having first and second sides and a porous region providing fluid communication between the sides, planar cell chemistry layers comprising fuel electrode, electrolyte and air electrode layers being coated or deposited over and supported by the porous region on the first side, wherein the metal substrates are in a stacked arrangement with their cell chemistry layers overlying each other such that either both their first sides or both their second sides face inwardly in a spaced opposed relationship, the inwardly facing sides thereby defining a common fluid volume 440 between them for one of fuel or oxidant, with at least one of the metal substrates comprising flanged perimeter features (850, figure 8b) around which the metal substrates are sealed together. The metal substrates may be directly adjoined by welding around the flanged perimeter features.
Patent GB-2618085-A (GB)
Title: Method of making modified wood product, modified wood product and apparatus for making modified wood product
Inventor: ANDREW MACKIE
IPC: B27K3/10
Filed: 2022-04-25
Abstract: Heating resin impregnated wood W to dry it without curing it; in a vessel 1001 capable of operating at a pressure less than 50kPa and more than 200kPa. The heating can be 65°C or cooler. Heating resin impregnated wood to curing it; in a vessel capable of operating at a pressure less than 50kPa and more than 200kPa. The heating can be 160°C or cooler at a pressure of 175kPa-200kPa. The resin can be phenol with a formaldehyde reagent. Heating resin impregnated wood to dry it without curing it at 100kPa or less. One chamber connected to a pressure reducing device and another chamber connected to a heater and a pressure reducing device. Resin with a density of 650kgm-3-750kgm-3 with 11% moisture content or less which is fire retardant. Multiple modified wood products where less than 1/10 are unsatisfactory.
Patent GB-2620362-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for managing electrical and internal combustion vehicles
Inventor: STEPHEN WILLIAM COWPER
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2022-06-15
Abstract: A computerized system 100 for selectively determining access of an electric vehicle (EV) 2 or of an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle into a predetermined zone of interest, such as an EV charging bay 5, or a Low Emission Zone. The system comprises at least one thermal imaging camera (Fig. 4, 13) configured to acquire at least one thermal image of at least a portion of said predetermined zone of interest. This part of the interest zone must be one which is occupied by said vehicles when they access the interest zone. The thermal imaging camera is configured to capture a region of said interest zone as well as at least a portion of said vehicle. The system is configured to perform said selective determination based on a processing of said thermal image, based on the fact that at least certain parts of any ICE vehicles will be substantially hotter than the corresponding parts of any EVs, after operation. Image processing may be performed using a deep neural network.
Patent GB-2610141-A (GB)
Title: Closed loop oxygen control
Inventor: RHYS MATTHEW JAMES WILLIAMS
IPC: A61M16/00
Filed: 2018-10-05
Abstract: The apparatus comprises a controller configured to deliver gases to a patient. The controller receives data from a patient sensor indicative of the blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) of a patient and data indicative of the measured fraction of delivered oxygen (FdO2) of the gases flow. The controller determines a predicted SpO2 based at least in part upon the FdO2 data and controls the FdO2 based upon the predicted SpO2.