baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2566748-A (GB)
Title: A method and system for calibrating a system parameter
Inventor: RAMSEY MICHAEL FARAGHER
IPC: G01S19/30
Filed: 2017-09-26
Abstract: A method for use in a positioning, navigation, tracking, frequency-measuring or timing system comprises providing first and second estimates of at least one system parameter during a first time period, wherein the parameter has a true value and/or time evolution over the period. A local signal is provided, a signal is received from a remote source and a correlation signal is produced by correlating the local signal with the received signal. Amplitude and/or phase compensation is applied to at least one of the local signal, received signal and correlation signal based on each of the first and second estimates so as to provide compensated signals corresponding to the estimates of the system parameter during the time period. By comparing the compensated signals, it is determined which of the first and second estimates is nearer to the true value and/or evolution of the system parameter during the time period.
Patent GB-2567638-A (GB)
Title: Fuel pump
Inventor: Stephen J Maclane
IPC: F16K47/08
Filed: 2017-10-17
Abstract: An inlet valve arrangement 20 of an i.c. engine high pressure (HP) fuel pump 10, having a body 12 in which a piston reciprocates, comprises a valve member (poppet) 22 having a stem 26 and a head 28, a spring 32 being compressed between a lower seat 34 on the pump body 12 and a seat member 38 fixed to the stem 26 to urge the valve member 22 to its closed position. The seat member 38 has a cup-like shape comprising a disc-like base 40 and a skirt 42 defining a spring chamber 46 enclosing the spring 32, the skirt 32 axially extending to an annular end 44 which cooperates with an annular face 50 of the pump body surrounding the lower seat 34 such that an annular fluid communication F is provided between a face 48 on the skirt 32 and a complementary face 50 on the pump body 12. The opening of the annular fluid communication F varies in use to provide a throttle for damping opening movement of the valve member 22.
Patent GB-2558463-A (GB)
Title: Bee nutrition
Inventor: GERALDINE WRIGHT
IPC: A23K50/90
Filed: 2016-11-16
Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions, methods and products for providing nutrition to insects such as bees, e.g., honey bees. Certain embodiments of the present invention also relate to methods of providing nutrition to bees e.g., colonies of bees together with methods of preparing a composition for providing nutrition to bees.
Patent GB-2558471-A (GB)
Title: Hook inserter
Inventor: ALEXANDRA PINKIE
IPC: A61B17/84
Filed: 2016-10-19
Abstract: Instruments and systems for performing spinal fixation are provided. The instruments and system configured to position and force fit a hook onto a pedicle bone. The systems include a hook and an instrument. The instrument includes a handle and a rod fixedly mounted to a distal end of the handle. The instrument includes a hook support portion having a hood. The hood includes an opening, a support wall, a post and a threaded knob. The support wall is configured to support the hook. The post has a bottom surface dimensioned similar to that of a spinal rod. The threaded knob is mounted within the opening of the hood and engages a pair of threaded sidewalls of a rod support portion of the hook so as to pull the hook into a fixed engagement with the post, securing the hook support portion to the post.
Patent GB-2563983-A (GB)
Title: Freeze-dried coffee powder and a method for the manufacture thereof
Inventor: JOE CHRISTOPHER WELSH
IPC: A23F5/36
Filed: 2016-04-27
Abstract: A freeze dried coffee powder which provides a crema of at least 0.25ml/g upon reconstitution with water comprises particles having open gas bubbles 5 and ice-crystal voids 15 and having a closed porosity less than 15%. The open gas bubbles and ice-crystal voids have low interconnectivity such that less than 80% intrusion is achieved under 40psia Hg. The coffee powder may include up to 20wt% of roast and ground coffee particles and/or cocoa powder. The particles may have a particle size distribution with a D10 of at least 300 microns. The ice-crystal voids may have a mean pore diameter from 6-10 microns, and the gas bubbles may have a mean pore diameter from 10-60 microns. The coffee powder may be formed by using gas to form a foamed coffee extract, freezing the foamed extract, grinding the frozen extract to a powder and drying the powder, where the freezing comprises slowly cooling the foamed extract from a temperature 1°C above the freezing point to a temperature 3°C below the freezing point. The coffee powder is intended to produce a beverage upon reconstitution with water having a volume of crema which mimics that of a coffee beverage made using ground coffee.
Patent GB-2576499-A (GB)
Title: Joint source channel coding for noisy channels using neural networks
Inventor: DENIZ GUNDUZ
IPC: H04L29/02
Filed: 2018-08-15
Abstract: A system for conveying information from a source across a channel using a joint source channel coding variational autoencoder, comprising: an encoder neural network of the autoencoder. The neural network having an input layer having nodes corresponding to a sequence of source symbols S = {Si, S2,... , Sm}, taking values in a finite alphabet S, received at the input layer; a channel input layer coupled to the input layer through one or more neural network layers, the channel input layer having nodes corresponding to a channel input distribution vector ZK = { Z1, Z2,..., ZK}, Z, taking values for parameters defining a plurality of distributions, each distribution being sampleable to provide possible values for X, of a channel input vector X' = {X1, X2,..., Xn}, X taking values from the available input values of the communications channel, wherein the encoder neural network is configured to map sequences of source symbols directly to a representation as a plurality of distributions that provide possible values for the Xi of a channel input vector Xn usable to transmit a signal over a communications channel.
Patent GB-2567750-A (GB)
Title: System and method for sensing tissue deformation
Inventor: Joshua Lee Richmond
IPC: A61B90/10
Filed: 2016-03-13
Abstract: The present invention provides a device and method for measuring tissue deformation during an invasive medical procedure. A device is provided comprising a flexible fiber having a proximal end and a distal end; at least one sensor embedded in the flexible fiber; a rigid mount having a transverse opening for the flexible fiber; a mechanism for inserting the flexible fiber into a tissue; a detector for receiving information from the sensor; and a tracking system for receiving information from the detector to calculate the sensor location.
Patent GB-2567601-A (GB)
Title: System and method for determining a microwave beam and a power setting for wireless power transfer within a volume
Inventor: GIORGI G BIT-BABIK
IPC: H02J50/60
Filed: 2017-08-07
Abstract: A system (100) and method (400) for determining a microwave beam (130) and a power setting for wireless power transfer within a volume (120) with a beamforming antenna (104). The method (400) includes determining a perimeter (122) for the volume (120), and determining a transmit power threshold based on the perimeter (122). The method (400) includes establishing a communication link (132) with a mobile electronic device (112) within the volume (120), and determining a position of the mobile electronic device (112). The method (400) includes sensing whether a person (150) is located within the volume (120), and, when a person (150) is located within the volume (120), sensing a position of the person (150), determining a microwave beam (130) based on the position of the mobile electronic device (112) and the position of the person (150), and determining a power setting for the microwave beam (130) based on the position of the mobile electronic device (112), the position of the person (150), the transmit power threshold, and a power density distribution for the microwave beam (130).
Patent GB-2570064-A (GB)
Title: A method for manufacturing a metal sheet with a ZnAl coating and with optimized drying, corresponding metal sheet, part and vehicle
Inventor: JEAN-MICHEL MATAIGNE
IPC: C23C2/26
Filed: 2014-02-10
Abstract: A body part of a land motor driven vehicle, such as an automobile, is formed from a deformed metal sheet comprising a steel substrate having at least one face coated with a metal coating deposited by dipping the substrate in a bath, the coating comprising between 0.2 and 0.7 weight percent aluminium, the remainder of the coating being zinc and inevitable impurities, wherein the outer surface of the metal coating has a waviness Wa0.8 of less than or equal to 0.43 µm. The outer surface of the metal coating on the deformed metal sheet preferably has a waviness Wa0.8 of less than or equal to 0.41 µm and most preferably less than or equal to 0.37 µm. The metal coating may comprise less than 0.3 weight percent of each of one or more additional elements selected from the group consisting of silicon, antimony, lead, titanium, calcium, manganese, tin, lanthanum, cerium, chromium, zirconium or bismuth. The body part preferably comprises a film of paint on the metal coating.
Patent GB-2583708-A (GB)
Title: Arc fault detector
Inventor: GÜNTER MARTINEK
IPC: H02H1/00
Filed: 2019-04-25
Abstract: An arc fault detector 1 for an electric line 2 has a voltage and/or current sensor 3 for monitoring the electric line, a signal pattern analysing unit 4, a slew rate detection unit 6 and an envelope detection unit 8. The slew rate detection unit 6 and the envelope detection unit 8 are connected to a first controller 10 which outputs a second arc detection signal 11 when it receives a slew rate detection signal 7 and an envelope detection signal in a first detection time window. A second controller 12 is connected to the first controller 10 and the signal pattern analysing unit 4 to output a trigger signal when the second controller 12 receives a first arc detection signal 5 from the signal pattern analysing unit 4 and the second arc detection signal 11 for at least a defined total time within a second detection time window. The detector may be part of a circuit breaker and avoids nuisance tripping.
Patent GB-2584106-A (GB)
Title: Flexible electronic structure
Inventor: BRIAN COBB
IPC: H05K1/18
Filed: 2019-05-21
Abstract: A flexible electronic structure 100 suitable for bonding with an external circuit (Figure 5, 500), comprises a flexible substrate 102, having a first surface 108, configured for bonding with the external circuit (Figure 5, 500), and an opposing second surface 112 configured for engagement with a bonding tool. The structure 100 comprises at least one electronic component 104; at least one contact member 106, operatively coupled with the electronic component 104 and provided the first surface 108 of the flexible substrate 102 and adapted to interface with the external circuit (Figure 5, 500) after bonding. The structure 100 also comprises at least one shield member 110, provided at the first surface 108 to shieldingly overlap a portion of the electronic component 104, and is adapted to withstand a predetermined pressure applied to said first surface 108 and/or said opposing second surface 112 during bonding with the external circuit (Figure 5, 500).
Patent GB-2588118-A (GB)
Title: Membrane assemblies for sealing fault detection and location, and related methods
Inventor: PINCHAS GOLDSTEIN
IPC: E04B1/66
Filed: 2019-10-07
Abstract: A water-impermeable membrane 210 assembly for sealing an exposed surface of a substrate comprises waterproof sheets (Fig 3A, 310, 320) and a plurality of conduits 246 having openings in at least a first major surface, and a leak-alarm circuit 250 disposed at least partly within an equipment space 247. The leak-alarm circuit comprises an electronic circuit comprising a wireless transmitter and a battery for transmission of a signal. The assembly also includes capillary pathways (Fig 3A, 213) disposed within at least a portion of the conduits, including at least one conduit in fluid communication with the equipment space and with respective openings disposed in at least said first surface. In the event that either waterproof sheet is punctured, split, cut, torn, or ruptured moisture may enter one of the conduits and may be wicked by a capillary fibre along the conduit to the equipment space 247. A battery therein may be water or liquid activated and triggers the alarm to send a signal to a recipient.
Patent GB-2579300-A (GB)
Title: Nanoporous superabsorbent particles
Inventor: WANDUK LEE
IPC: A61L15/60
Filed: 2018-07-20
Abstract: Superabsorbent particles having a median size of from about 50 to about 2,000 micrometers and containing nanopores having an average cross-sectional dimension of from about 10 to about 500 nanometers are provided. The superabsorbent particles exhibit a Vortex Time of about 80 seconds or less.
Patent GB-2579526-A (GB)
Title: Reconfigurable radar transmitter
Inventor: WOORAM LEE
IPC: H03D7/14
Filed: 2018-07-19
Abstract: Techniques that facilitate reconfigurable transmission of a radar frequency signal are provided. In one example, a system includes a signal generator and a power modulator. The signal generator provides a radar waveform signal from a set of radar waveform signals. The power modulator divides a local oscillator signal associated with a first frequency and a first amplitude into a first local oscillator signal and a second local oscillator signal. The power modulator also generates a radio frequency signal associated with a second frequency and a second amplitude based on the radar waveform signal, the first local oscillator signal and the second local oscillator signal.
Patent GB-2592604-A (GB)
Title: Image generation system and method
Inventor: COLIN JONATHAN HUGHES
IPC: G06T15/06
Filed: 2020-03-03
Abstract: An image generation system comprising a bounding volume hierarchy, BVH, storage unit operable to store a BVH comprising a hierarchical structure of a plurality of triangles describing a virtual scene, a BVH position buffer operable to store data for identifying the location of one or more triangles within the BVH. A fetch shader is operable to identify vertex indices for use in rendering images, to obtain one or more triangles within the BVH corresponding to those vertex indices, and to provide vertex data corresponding to those triangles to a vertex shader operable to perform a vertex shading process. The location of triangles within the BVH are indicated by an index identifying a first vertex of a triangle and a respective offset or bit value for each vertex in the triangle. A vertex shader may perform vertex shading using data from the fetch shader. The fetch shader may perform a transformation on the obtained location information for the one or more triangles. The system may include an index buffer for storing data identifying vertex indices for use in rendering images and/or attribute data for one or more vertices.
Patent GB-2579007-A (GB)
Title: Hybrid land grid array connector for improved signal integrity
Inventor: Jose Hejase
IPC: H01R43/18
Filed: 2018-09-26
Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a method for fabricating a hybrid land grid array connector and the resulting structures. A body is provided. The body includes a first plurality of holes and a second plurality of holes. A conductive layer is deposited on the top and bottom surfaces of the body and the wall surfaces of the first plurality of holes resulting in the top and bottom surfaces being electrically common. The conductive layer is removed from the wall surfaces of a first subset of the first plurality of holes. A portion of the conductive layer is removed from the top surface of the body and the bottom surface of the body from an area surrounding the first subset of the first plurality of holes.
Patent GB-2581086-A (GB)
Title: Insert safety valve system
Inventor: TODD C JACKSON
IPC: E21B34/06
Filed: 2018-08-28
Abstract: An insert safety valve system includes a valve body including a valve member. The valve body includes a central passage and a flow path arranged radially outwardly of the central passage. A release sub is coupled to the valve body. The release sub is configured and disposed to support a downhole tool. A connector member selectively couples the release sub and the valve body.
Patent GB-2595463-A (GB)
Title: Headgear having an air purifier
Inventor: Philip Stephen Darling
IPC: A62B18/00
Filed: 2020-05-26
Abstract: A headgear 1 comprising an air purifier 12, a microphone, and a control Unit 14. The control unit analyses a signal output by the microphone to determine a magnitude of wind. The control unit then controls a flow rate of the air purifier in response to the determined magnitude. The control unit preferably transforms time samples of the signal into one or more frequency samples, and determines the magnitude of wind based on energies of the frequency samples. The headgear may comprise a speaker and an active noise cancellation (anc) unit; the microphone being a microphone of the active noise cancellation unit. The headgear preferably comprises a further microphone, and the control unit analyses the signal output from both microphones to determine the magnitude of wind. The headgear may also comprise a speaker 25 and an active noise cancellation unit 26, where the microphone is a feedforward microphone 27 of the active noise cancellation unit and the further microphone is a feedback microphone 28 of the active noise cancellation unit.
Patent GB-2584041-A (GB)
Title: Absorbent pants having a waistband with rear pocket
Inventor: ROXANNE M ZELEGER
IPC: A61F13/496
Filed: 2018-01-31
Abstract: An absorbent garment that includes a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis. The absorbent garment is a pant that includes a front region, a back region and a crotch region, with the crotch region being disposed between the front region and the back region. The crotch region is formed by an absorbent assembly. In addition to the absorbent assembly, the garment includes a front panel and a back panel; the front panel is attached to a front region of the absorbent assembly and the back panel is attached to a back region of the absorbent assembly. The front panel and the back panel are bonded to each other to form the lateral side seams of the garment. The garment also includes a pocket at the back waist of the pant that is formed, in part, by a folded over portion of the back panel. The pocket includes a fluid barrier.
Patent GB-2586100-A (GB)
Title: Techniques for thermally insulating a liquid chromatographic column
Inventor: EDOUARD S P BOUVIER
IPC: G01N30/30
Filed: 2013-06-26
Abstract: An apparatus 200 for performing liquid chromatography comprises a mobile phase heater 206 for heating a mobile phase and a liquid chromatography column 128 positioned in a flow path to receive the mobile phase after heating by the mobile phase heater 206. The liquid chromatography column 128 has an inlet for the mobile phase to enter the liquid chromatography column 128 and an outlet for the mobile phase to exit the liquid chromatography column. A column heater 310 is positioned at the outlet of the liquid chromatography column 128 and in thermal contact with the liquid chromatography column 128 to heat the mobile phase.
Patent GB-2585583-A (GB)
Title: Intelligent device for implementing thermal expansion principle-based separation between walnut kernels and red coats by means of heat radiation
Inventor: CHANGHE LI
IPC: A23N5/00
Filed: 2018-12-06
Abstract: An intelligent device for implementing thermal expansion principle-based separation between walnut kernels and red coats by means of heat radiation during belt transportation, comprising: a continuous material feeding mechanism (III), which comprises a rotatable indented cylinder (III-02) provided with a plurality of discharging grooves in a circumferential direction, wherein a pin (III-04) is provided in each discharging groove, the pin (III-04) is connected to a spring (III-06), the spring (III-06) is provided facing the interior of the indented cylinder (III-02), the pin (III-04) is able to move along the discharging groove, and the bottom of a charging box (III-10) is hollow and is provided above or at the bottom of the indented cylinder (III-02) and is fixedly connected to the indented cylinder (III-02); a delivery mechanism (II), above a side of which the continuous material feeding mechanism (III) is provided; and an electromagnetic heating mechanism (I), comprising a support frame, the delivery mechanism (II) being provided in the support frame, and an electromagnetic coil (I-02) being provided outside the support frame in a circumferential direction.
Patent GB-2584584-A (GB)
Title: Hoisting system and method of operation
Inventor: ELLEN KOLNES
IPC: E21B19/00
Filed: 2019-07-11
Abstract: A hoisting system 100 comprising a vertically arranged hoisting cylinder assembly 1 having exactly three hoisting cylinders 1a-c, the three hoisting cylinders being horizontally aligned with a second hoisting cylinder arranged between a first and a third hoisting cylinder, at least one sheave 2,2a,2b arranged in an upper part of the hoisting cylinder assembly; wherein the hoisting system has first, second and third operational configurations to lift a yoke. There is also provided a method of operating a hosting system.
Patent GB-2587155-A (GB)
Title: Air dryer utilizing low temperature, high velocity air
Inventor: TIM G DOLLEVOET
IPC: F26B21/00
Filed: 2018-04-30
Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for drying web substrates are described. In one embodiment, a method of drying a web substrate may comprise supplying air to a first dryer head located proximate a web conveyer, the air within the first dryer head having a temperature of less than 176 degrees C, directing air from the first dryer head toward the web conveyer at a velocity greater than 1000 m/min and forming a first drying region, and advancing the web substrate in a first direction on the web conveyer and through the first drying region.
Patent GB-2587947-A (GB)
Title: Discharge filter plate assembly for filter press
Inventor: SEAN R DUBY
IPC: B01D25/34
Filed: 2019-04-11
Abstract: A filter plate assembly for a filter press is provided. The filter plate assembly includes at least a first filter plate and a second filter plate, which cooperate to define a filter chamber when the first filter plate and the second filter plate are in a filtering position. At least one of the first filter plate and the second filter plate is movable from the filtering position to a discharge position in which a filter cake can be discharged. In other configurations, the filter plate assembly can include a first filter plate, a second filter plate and a center filter plate or frame, which cooperate to define a filter chamber. The center filter plate or frame is movable from a filtering position to a discharge position.
Patent GB-2588313-A (GB)
Title: Optoelectronic device
Inventor: HOOMAN ABEDIASL
IPC: G02F1/025
Filed: 2019-05-10
Abstract: An optoelectronic device. The optoelectronic device comprising: a rib waveguide provided on a substrate of the device, the rib waveguide comprising a ridge portion and a slab portion; a heater, disposed within the slab portion; a thermally isolating trench, adjacent to the rib waveguide, and extending into the substrate of the device; and a thermally isolating cavity within the substrate, which is directly connected to the thermally isolating trench, and which extends across at least a part of a width of the rib waveguide between the rib waveguide and the substrate.