baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2523116-A (GB)
Title: Sensor system for a pump impeller assembly
Inventor: HARRISON MARTIN ROY
IPC: G01B7/14
Filed: 2014-02-12
Abstract: A sensor system 30 measures the position of a metallic impeller 11 in the casing of a pump, eg a slurry pump. An impeller sensor 40 comprises an impeller sensor probe 41 comprising at least one coil 43 mounted to the casing outside one of the wear liners (15),16 disposed between the casing and the impeller 11. A radio frequency drive signal generates an RF field in the coil, and a detector circuit detects a characteristic of the signal developed across the coil 43 that varies with impedance and generates a signal representative of the position of the impeller 11. A clearance signal representing the clearance between the impeller 11 and surface of the wear liner 16 is generated and used to control the position of the impeller relative to the wear liner. A liner sensor 60 including a liner sensor probe 61 may be provided to measure the separation between the liner sensor probe 61 and the surface of the wear liner 16 facing the impeller. The impeller sensor 40 may have plural coils (43, fig.5).
Patent GB-2509673-A (GB)
Title: Detector apparatus and method
Inventor: SNOW STEPHEN WHITAKER
IPC: G01T1/167
Filed: 2012-11-23
Abstract: A method is described for the detection of radiation from an item (2) intended for human consumption such as a food or drink item by combined processing of spectral data from a plurality of radiation detectors (4, 6), in particular with a plurality of response functions, comprising: collecting data from radiation incident at each detector (4, 6); producing a spectral histogram for the collected data from each detector (4, 6); deconvoluting the histograms from each detector (4, 6) by applying a suitable numerical deconvolution such as a Bayesian deconvolution and in particular that makes use of the response matrix for each detector (4, 6) to derive a single spectral histogram that representatively combines information from the plurality of detectors (4, 6). An apparatus, such as a hybrid detector apparatus, to which the method can be applied is also described.
Patent GB-2517575-A (GB)
Title: Roof lining assembly for a vehicle and vehicle having the roof lining assembly
Inventor: EIDT RALF
IPC: B60R21/232
Filed: 2014-06-27
Abstract: Roof lining assembly 5 of a vehicle 1, wherein the vehicle 1 has a vehicle roof 3, a vehicle column 4a; 4b; 4c, and a vehicle interior 2, wherein the roof lining assembly 5 comprises a roof lining 6 for concealing the vehicle roof 3 in relation to the vehicle interior 2 and a fastening means 12, wherein the roof lining 6 has an airbag section 7 and a holding section 8, wherein the airbag section 7 and the holding section 8 end at the vehicle column 4a; 4b; 4c in a shared end region 9, wherein an airbag 10 can be arranged behind the airbag section 7 in the direction of the vehicle roof 3, and wherein the airbag section 7 is implemented for the purpose of forming an unfolding and opening region 14 between the vehicle roof 3 and the roof lining 6 for the unfolding airbag 10 during and/or after an activation of the airbag 10, wherein the holding section 8 comprises a fastening extension 11; 11a; 11b, wherein the fastening extension 11; 11a; 11b is arranged on the holding section 8 and is implemented and/or arranged for fastening the holding section 8 using the fastening means 12 in a fastening position 13 on the vehicle column 4a; 4b; 4c, wherein the roof lining 6 is implemented with the airbag section 7, the holding section 8, and the fastening extension 11; 11a; 11b as a shared component made of a fiber composite material, wherein the fastening extension 11; 11a; 11 b is implemented as at least partially and/or sectionally free of an additional reinforcement in the profile between the fastening position 13 and the holding section 8.
Patent GB-2528068-A (GB)
Title: An inhaler
Inventor: MORRIS STEPHEN WYNFORD
IPC: A24F42/60
Filed: 2014-07-08
Abstract: An inhaler comprises a breath operated valve with a valve element 9 biased closed by a spring 22. A diaphragm 11 is arranged to deform when suction is applied to an outlet end 2, to lift the valve element 9 against the biasing force of the spring 22 allowing composition to flow from a reservoir 4 along the tube 8 and out of the inhaler at outlet 12. The spring 22 is a strip of resilient material forming a U-shape (see figure 2), with a first arm 23 extending from a position adjacent to the valve element along the diaphragm 11 in a direction away from the outlet end to an apex 24, with a second arm 25 extending back towards the outlet end 2. The spring 22 may have a projecting element 21 which fits into a recess 20 in the diaphragm, thus forming the valve.
Patent GB-2526891-A (GB)
Title: Container
Inventor: LILL BARRY
IPC: B65D5/60
Filed: 2014-10-07
Abstract: A blank (100) for a container 500 for the transit of goods, the container having a base and sidewalls, wherein the container has a flexible retainer (104) to be fixed to the sidewalls and are foldable over an item placed within the container to retain the item in position. A cohesive material is applied to a first side (112) of one of the flexible retainer and to a second side (114) of another flexible retainer, wherein the second side is opposite the first side. The cohesive material may be applied to the whole surface of the flexible retainer, or only part of the surface. The flexible retainer may have a depth greater than that of the sidewalls and may extend beyond the upper limit of any part of the container. The blank may be partially assembled in order to be more suitable to be transported.
Patent GB-2557861-A (GB)
Title: Product dispensing system with container-product interaction
Inventor: Steven w burton
IPC: B65D5/72
Filed: 2013-04-10
Abstract: A product dispensing system (100) including a dispenser (102) having a front end (160) longitudinally opposed from a rear end (164), the dispenser (102) including a container support deck (154) extending at least partially between the front and rear ends, and a lower support deck (156) positioned below the container support deck (154), the lower support deck (156) defining a product display area (170), a container (104) positioned on the container support deck (154), the container (104) defining an internal volume (124) and including an interference member (134)extending into the internal volume (124), and a number of products (106) received in the internal volume (124) and arranged in at least a first row (130) and a second row (132), the second row (132) being positioned above the first row (130), wherein the interference member (134) is positioned to restrict longitudinal movement at least one product (106) in the second row (132).
Patent GB-2533150-A (GB)
Title: Locking mechanism
Inventor: JULIAN DAVIS
IPC: H05K7/20
Filed: 2014-12-12
Abstract: A subsea electronics module comprises at least one cammed surface 10,13, 16, 20, on an outer surface thereof and a pressure isolation vessel comprising at least one cammed surface 11, 14, 17, 21 on an inner surface. The subsea electronics module is inserted into the pressure isolation vessel 3 and rotated in a clockwise direction to cause at least one cammed surface of the subsea electronics module to engage with at least one corresponding cammed surface of the pressure isolation vessel to form an interference fit between the subsea electronics module and the pressure isolation vessel.
Patent GB-2524360-A (GB)
Title: Compact haptic interface
Inventor: SUMMER MATTHEW D
IPC: G06F3/01
Filed: 2014-12-16
Abstract: Compact haptic interface (100) includes a base (102) and a yoke (304) rotatably disposed within the base. A first drive coupling (312) between a first motor (301) and the yoke rotates the yoke about a yoke axis (308). A carrier (306) is mounted to the yoke and rotatable about a carrier axis (310) transverse to the yoke axis. A rod (110) mounted to the carrier extends along a rod axis (fig 5, 346) transverse to the yoke axis and the carrier axis. A second drive coupling (gig 5, 314) rotates the carrier about the carrier axis responsive to operation of a second motor (302) which is mounted to the yoke. A third motor (303) is supported on the carrier and rotatable with the carrier about the carrier axis of rotation. A third drive coupling (fig 6, 340) facilitates linear movement of the rod along a linear direction responsive to operation of the third motor.
Patent GB-2517624-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus and method to compensate bearing runout in laser tracker
Inventor: BRIDGES ROBERT E
IPC: G01S17/66
Filed: 2013-05-07
Abstract: An apparatus and method for correcting errors in measurement of three-dimensional coordinates of a retroreflector by a coordinate measurement device is provided. The method includes measuring a plurality of first angles, a plurality of first and second displacements along an axis, sending a beam of light to the retroreflector target, measuring two angles and a distance to the retroreflector, and determining the three-dimensional coordinates of the retroreflector.
Patent GB-2533397-A (GB)
Title: Optical systems
Inventor: DAPING CHU
IPC: H04J14/02
Filed: 2014-12-19
Abstract: A reconfigurable optical spatial mode multiplexing and/or de-multiplexing system, the system comprising: at least one phase modulating optical path comprising a polarisation-independent reconfigurable phase modulator 608 which may be a ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulator (FLC SLM) arranged to impose a controllable phase profile on a beam propagating in the phase modulating optical path to controllably convert a spatial mode order of the beam in the multiplexing system from a lower order spatial mode to a higher order spatial mode and in the de-multiplexing system from a higher order spatial mode to a lower order spatial mode; further comprising a controller 620; a plurality of optical element 612 which in the multiplexing system are beam combiners and in the de-multiplexing system are beam splitters
Patent GB-2525482-A (GB)
Title: Electrical connector
Inventor: GOOCH PHILLIP ANDREW
IPC: H01R13/58
Filed: 2015-03-03
Abstract: A terminal for an electrical connector has two spring-loaded limbs which press the bared end 22 of a wire against a confronting surface. The first limb 20 provides resistance to withdrawal of the wire, for example by digging into it, while the second limb 21 provides less resistance. Thus two contact points are provided but a tool need only release one if the wire is to be withdrawn. The limbs may be opposite ends of a spring 17 mounted within a conductive terminal insert 18 which also provides the confronting surface. The connector may also provide a resilient cable grip 14, 15. The terminals connect the wires to another connector by interface connections 13.
Patent GB-2538257-A (GB)
Title: Method for conditioning the CdTe layer of thin-film solar cells
Inventor: CHRISTIAN DROST
IPC: H01L31/18
Filed: 2015-05-12
Abstract: A process for adding a layer 5 of calcium tetrachloro zincate (CaZnCl4) is described. The said layer 5 is then adhered to the thin-film solar cell and subjected to a thermal treatment. The calcium tetrachloro zincate is dissolved in an aqueous solution. The layer may be applied by roller application or spraying. The cadmium telluride (CdTe) layer 4 can be applied by an aerosol process, or by immersing the semi-finished product in calcium tetrachloro zincate solution 5. A method for activating the CdTe layer 4 of semi-finished thinfilm CdTe solar cells, is described. This means that the CdCl2 generally used is replaced by a safer and easier to handle substance. This is achieved by applying calcium tetrachlorozincate 5 onto the CdTe layer 4 and the subsequent heat treatment of the semi-finished thin-film CdTe solar cells. The heat treatment can be performed at about 400oC for about 25 minutes.
Patent GB-2523682-A (GB)
Title: Exercise effect analysis system
Inventor: HASEGAWA YASUTAKA
IPC: A61B10/00
Filed: 2012-12-20
Abstract: The present invention is an exercise effect analysis system which analyzes and displays exercise effects from a user's pulmonary function information. This exercise effect analysis system comprises: an input unit for inputting at least the user's exercise information and lung age information; an exercise amount change calculation unit which calculates the amount of change in the amount of exercise which is the difference between a first exercise information and a second exercise information which are input at the input unit; a lung age change calculation unit which calculates the amount of change in the lung age which is the difference between a first lung age information and a second lung age information; and an output unit which displays at least one of the exercise information and the amount of change in the amount of exercise as well as the amount of change in the lung age of the user.
Patent GB-2529512-A (GB)
Title: An electronic device component with an integral diamond heat spreader
Inventor: ELLIS JULIAN
IPC: H01L23/373
Filed: 2015-06-10
Abstract: An electronic device component comprising: a support frame 80 comprising a top surface, a bottom surface, and an opening extending between the top surface and bottom surface of the support frame 80; a diamond heat spreader 82,84 comprising a wafer of synthetic diamond material having a top face, a bottom face, where the diamond heat spreader 82,84 is bonded to the support frame 80 so that the diamond heat spreader 82,84 extends across the opening in the support frame 80; and one or more semiconductor components 86,88 mounted on, and bonded to, the top face of the diamond heat spreader 82,84 and on the top face of the support frame 80; where the support frame 80 is formed of an electrically insulating ceramic material to which the diamond heat spreader 82,84 is bonded; where one or more electrical connections 92, formed of a patterned metallization layer, are mounted on the top surface of both the support frame 80 and the diamond heat spreader 82,84 and configured to electrically connect to the one or more semiconductor components 86,88, where the top face of the diamond heat spreader is co-planar with the top surface of the support frame to within 500Âµm. Also disclosed is the heat spreading substrate for the above electronic device component. Further disclosed is a method of fabricating a heat spreading substrate, the method comprising: mounting a diamond heat spreader in a green ceramic body; firing the green ceramic body whereby the ceramic body shrinks and hardened around the diamond heat spreader thus directly bonding the diamond heat spreader to the ceramic body which forms a ceramic support frame around the diamond heat spreader; and metalizing a top surface of the diamond heat spreader and the ceramic support frame.
Patent GB-2527238-A (GB)
Title: Correlation techniques for passive electroseismic and seismoelectric surveying
Inventor: THOMPSON ARTHUR
IPC: G01V11/00
Filed: 2014-02-28
Abstract: A method for surveying, may include receiving, by a processor, first survey data from a first source, the first source comprising a first signal generated by a subsurface earth formation in response to a passive-source electromagnetic signal, wherein the electromagnetic signal is generated by an electroseismic or seismoelectric conversion of the passive-source electromagnetic signal The method may also include receiving, by the processor, second survey data from a second source and processing the first survey data and the second survey data to determine one or more properties of a subsurface earth formation.
Patent GB-2537438-A (GB)
Title: A system and method for handling video data
Inventor: ASHRAF NEHRU
IPC: H04N21/2662
Filed: 2015-10-02
Abstract: A video processor card for outputting video data, the card being arranged for insertion into a video media server comprises: an input for receiving a first video data stream at a first (e.g. 4K, 8K) video resolution from the video media server ouput; a processor demultiplexing the received first video stream at the first resolution into plural second video streams, each second stream at second (e.g. high definition, HD) video resolution; and plural video outputs, each to output one of the second streams, the first video resolution at a higher resolution than the second video resolution. Also claimed is an analogous method but not limited to the video card means, as well as a media server generating a first video data stream at a first resolution, comprising: an input for receiving plural source video data streams at a source video resolution; a video processor card slot; a processor to interleave pixels of the source video streams received at the input in order to generate the first video data stream; an output to output the first video data stream to the video processor card slot.
Patent GB-2537484-A (GB)
Title: Read level grouping for increased flash performance
Inventor: SEYHAN KARAKULAK
IPC: G11C16/34
Filed: 2016-03-11
Abstract: A computer implemented method 1400 (and a data storage system such as a Solid State Disc (SSD) consisting of a plurality of Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND FLASH memory devices, and a controller coupled to the flash memory) the method comprising of reading a first sample of wordlines in a particular block of memory 1402, each associated with a wordline identifier (or address), and to be read multiple times at different read level voltages to produce an associated error count, and generating a read table of error counts 1402 to store an error count for each combination of wordline and respective read level voltage used to read the wordlines. A plurality of wordline groups 1404 are generated based on the table of error counts, with each group associating a different read level offset voltage (bias voltage) with a plurality of wordline addresses. The storage device is configured to read memory cells using a read level offset voltage of a generated offset wordline group associated with a wordline address of the memory cells to be read 1406. After a predetermined point in a life cycle of a respective memory block, the table is regenerated and plurality of offset wordline groups are regenerated based the regenerated table of error counts 1408, 1410. A plurality of wordline groups may be based on the wordline identifiers (or addresses) used to index the table of error counts, the groups, for the purpose of reading, associating a different read level with a plurality of wordlines. The wordline groups may be based on an initial division of wordlines corresponding to the wordline identifiers each group comprising of a consecutively grouped portion of the corresponding wordlines pairs with a corresponding read level voltage, whilst the pairing are selected for an overall lowest possible error count. The table of error counts may be regenerated after a certain point in a life cycle of a memory block, using a second sample of wordlines, and based on for example reaching a pre-set number of program/erase cycles 1410. Using log likelihood LLR methodology, the regeneration of error count tables may include generating a plurality of reliability values (both negative and positive) and identifying a calibrated voltage corresponding to the zero crossing point for the second sample of wordlines.
Patent GB-2537230-A (GB)
Title: Composite metal catalysis module, fuel oil catalysis emission reduction apparatus, and preparation therefor
Inventor: DALONG SUN
IPC: B01J27/051
Filed: 2014-08-15
Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite metal catalysis module, a fuel oil catalysis emission reduction apparatus, and preparation methods therefor. An existing vehicle fuel economizer needs high cost and has a short service life. For this reason, a surface layer of the composite metal catalysis module comprises a precious metal catalysis layer. The precious metal catalysis layer is obtained by burning or heating a precious metal mixture raw material. The precious metal mixture raw material comprises purple sand ore powders, tin, antimony, molybdenum, rare earth, palladium, molybdenum disulfide, cerium, platinum, and tungsten. The present invention also relates to a fuel oil catalysis emission reduction apparatus and two methods for preparing the composite metal catalysis module. The composite metal catalysis module, the fuel oil catalysis emission reduction apparatus and the preparation methods therefor in the present invention have advantages of low cost, long service life, and significant fuel saving and emission reduction effects, and are widely used for various internal combustion engines.
Patent GB-2549300-A (GB)
Title: Electroacoustic transducer
Inventor: LIONEL WILLIAM JOHN KENT
IPC: H04R17/00
Filed: 2016-04-12
Abstract: The transducer comprises a first electrode 62, a second electrode 64 and a piezoelectric material 60, fig 2 at least partially sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode. An optical aperture 16 extends through the transducer to allow for optical communication to take place through the transducer. It is intended that the transducer form a part of a combined optical/acoustic power and/or data communication system (fig 1).
Patent GB-2533531-A (GB)
Title: Self-healing data transmission system to achieve lower latency
Inventor: DANIEL J WISEHART
IPC: H04L45/24
Filed: 2014-09-12
Abstract: A system is provided for combining and transmitting data fragments for multiple customer ports sent over a first packet-switched computer network to a trunk network and redistributed over a second packet-switched computer network. A method is described that provides a trunk network including an RF link and a fiber link, wherein all transmission links transmit data packets to a receiver which will redistribute the earliest data packets with a matching frame check sequence (FCS) over the second packet switched computer network. The method further describes transmitting a sender data packet, simulcast over the transmission links, receiving, by a receiver via the fastest links which may drop or change some bits unintentionally, a sender data packet and receiving, by the receiver, via slower links which are unlikely to drop or change some bits unintentionally, a sender data packet.
Patent GB-2549991-A (GB)
Title: Methods, devices and systems for controlling access to data
Inventor: Vikram mehta
IPC: G06F21/62
Filed: 2016-05-06
Abstract: A server monitors data requests and if a data request is detected which corresponds to a predetermined type of data request, notifying the user of the detected data request via a haptic feedback mechanism 11 provided on a wearable device 1 which is communicably coupled with the server. The wearable device 1 is preferably an armband with at least first and second touch sensitive inputs12a, 12b to allow the user to selectively deny or allow the data request. The haptic feedback mechanism preferably has different levels of intensity depending on the type of data request.
Patent GB-2534809-A (GB)
Title: Methods of enhancing fluid loss control using additives
Inventor: Donald Lee Whitfill
IPC: E21B21/00
Filed: 2014-01-14
Abstract: In some instances, a fluid loss control enhancement additive may synergistically work with lost circulation materials ("LCM") to arrest lost circulation in wellbores where LCMs alone have been ineffective. For example, a method may involve treating a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation with a pill comprising an aqueous base fluid and a lost circulation material; observing fluid loss from the wellbore to the subterranean formation while treating the wellbore with the pill; and adding salt, a swellable polymer, and fibers to the pill.