baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2573099-A (GB)
Title: Liftable backrest assembly for automotive vehicle
Inventor: CHIA-JUNG CHANG
IPC: B60N2/20
Filed: 2018-04-18
Abstract: A backrest assembly includes a backrest 10, a support unit 11 and a fixture 12. The backrest is provided with an adjusting member 100. The support unit includes a front support 110, a rear support 111 and a plurality of joints 112. The rear support has a first end connected with one of the joints and combined with the fixture and a second end connected with another one of the joints and combined with a first end of the front support. The front support has a second end connected with another one of the joints and combined with the backrest. The backrest assembly is attached to an automotive vehicle by the fixture. The front support and the rear support form an angle and are lockable by the joints. The vehicle may be a motorbike, motorcycle (2, figs. 3 to 7), or motor vehicle, car (5, figs.8 to 10). The fixture may be attached to a frame (20, fig.3) of the vehicle or to a body of the car.
Patent GB-2574464-A (GB)
Title: Articulable lifting attachment
Inventor: NEIL JAMES BEARD
IPC: B66C13/08
Filed: 2018-06-07
Abstract: An articulable lifting attachment 10 for a mechanical articulated arm 50 comprises a drivable articulator coupling 18 interposed between an attachment body 12 and a clamping head 16. The clamping head 16 may be configured to provide two different clamping forces from different directions to ensure that irregular objects can be lifted safely by means of a primary clamping element having pairs of clamping jaws 20 and a secondary clamping element or drivable ram 36. The clamping head 16 may have a plurality of clamping element connectors with which alternative clamping elements 26a, 26b may be releasably engaged in order to alter the clamping profile created by the clamping head 16. The pairs of clamping jaws 20 may comprise pivotable arms 24a, 24b and clamping portions 26a, 26b with rotatable clamping pads 34. Roller elements (148 fig 5) adjacent the rotatable clamping pads 34 may align the clamping pads 34 relative to an object to be clamped.
Patent GB-2571160-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle control system and control method
Inventor: DAVID PETTINGER
IPC: H05B3/84
Filed: 2018-08-10
Abstract: A control system (13100) for a host vehicle (10) operable in an autonomous comprising one or more controllers (13110), the system configured to receive a request signal indicative of a request for autonomous navigation of the host vehicle (10), operating in the autonomous mode, from a current location of the host vehicle (10) to a navigation goal; wherein the one or more controllers (13110), subsequent to receipt of the request signal, output a precondition signal to cause one or more components associated with an effectiveness of one or more sensors of the host vehicle to prepare the host vehicle for autonomous navigation to the navigation goal prior to movement of the host vehicle away from the current location; and navigate the host vehicle (10) to the navigation goal. The precondition signal may be to cause a heating component to warm up a sensor, or a cooling component to cool down the sensor. One of the components may comprise a heating component for de-icing, de-frosting or de-misting a window of the vehicle.
Patent GB-2573852-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for remote network management
Inventor: Timothy Kefford
IPC: H04L29/08
Filed: 2019-02-27
Abstract: A hub device for remote management of a network. The hub receives discovery instructions 810 from a remote server. The hub interrogates devices 820 in its local network and filters the interrogation results 830 in accordance with the discovery instructions. The filtered results are then sent 840 to the remote server. In response, the hub may receive a configuration command from the server and apply the configuration to a local device. The interrogation may use network fingerprinting, ARP, reverse DNS, OUI lookup, port scans, NetBIOS, WMI or SNMP detection. The discovery instructions may define the type of device to be reported to the remote server. The advantages of the invention are (i) it avoids the need for network address and port translation (NAPT) when traversing a firewall, (ii) access may be restricted to only certain types of device e.g. printers and (iii) it maintains network security by sanitising the information that is sent. The hub may be a physical device or an application that is installed on a device already in the network.
Patent GB-2570414-A (GB)
Title: Image capture apparatus and method of controlling the same
Inventor: HIRONORI AOKAGE
IPC: H04N5/235
Filed: 2013-04-10
Abstract: In an image capture apparatus and a method of controlling the apparatus which can apply image correction processing which influences the contrast of a shot image, image quality degradation of an image shot by using input-output characteristics where an output value logarithmically increases with a linear increase in input value is suppressed. A menu of user settings 3a is displayed and when using input-output characteristics where an output value logarithmically increases with a linear increase in input value 310,311, those menu option functions 312, 313, 314, 315 which influence the tone characteristics or contrast of an image are disabled.
Patent GB-2574711-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for requesting and transmitting marketing images or video
Inventor: JIM DOWNING
IPC: G06Q30/02
Filed: 2019-04-23
Abstract: A computer-implemented method for requesting and transmitting marketing images or video, including: receiving a communication from a remote terminal 102; identifying a user 104, or a group of users, associated with the received communication; identifying data associated with the user/s 106; identifying goods or services 108, using the identified data; requesting marketing images or video from a marketing images or video supplying system 110, relating to the identified goods or services; receiving the requested images/video from the supplying system 112; and transmitting the received images/video to the terminal 114. Identifying goods/services may involve utilising reinforcement learning algorithms which may include multi-armed bandit algorithms, wherein each time a user visits a product page or makes a purchase, a digital reward token is created. The identified data may include user viewing preferences such as what kind of model/mannequin they prefer to see clothes displayed on. The images/videos may be created automatically or dynamically. A machine-learning-powered system may produce images/videos by cutting garment textures from garment photos using image segmentation/ alpha matting algorithm, warping these textures to match a model body shape/pose and overlaying the textures onto the undressed model photos.
Patent GB-2576608-A (GB)
Title: Soil opener and method of manufacturing a soil opener
Inventor: SIMON ROBERT FRANK CHAPLIN
IPC: A01C5/06
Filed: 2018-01-22
Abstract: A soil opener 43 for driving through soil in a forward direction, the soil opener comprising: a support; and a soil opening member mounted to the support; wherein the soil opening member comprises a first soil engaging part 45 and a second soil engaging part 44 supported by the first soil engaging part, the second soil engaging part 44 defining a leading forward facing soil engagement surface 44A and the first soil engaging part defining a trailing forward facing soil engagement surface 45A. The soil opener may further comprise at least one soil deflection (110 figure 7) member configured to deflect soil towards a leading trench formed by the second soil engaging part and/or a seed delivery outlet 46. The at least one soil deflection member may be configured to deflect seed as the seed exits the soil delivery outlet
Patent GB-2585698-A (GB)
Title: Power saving system for underwater vehicles
Inventor: WEN-SUNG LEE
IPC: B63G8/00
Filed: 2019-07-12
Abstract: A power saving system for underwater vehicles 1 includes a control system 10, a power unit 20 and a battery 30. The control system controls the power unit to drive the underwater vehicle, and generates an output driving value 11. The control system includes a calculation unit 12, a three-axis accelerometer and gyro 13 and an underwater vehicle weight value 14. The calculation unit creates a correspondent acceleration value A using the output driving value and the underwater vehicle weight value. The three-axis accelerometer and gyro detects the acceleration of the underwater vehicle by every less than 0.5 second interval, and generates an acceleration value a. The control system compares the correspondent acceleration value and the acceleration value to control the output driving value so as to save battery power and elongate the range of travelling of the underwater vehicles.
Patent GB-2577377-A (GB)
Title: Electroluminescent display device
Inventor: HO-JIN KIM
IPC: H01L33/08
Filed: 2019-07-31
Abstract: An electroluminescent display device, including: a substrate 100 comprising: a first subpixel P1 (Figure 1); and a second subpixel P2 (Figure 1) adjacent the first subpixel; a respective first electrode 310, 320 in each of the first subpixel and the second subpixel; a trench T in a boundary between the first subpixel and the second subpixel; an emission layer 700 on the first electrode, and in the first subpixel, the second subpixel and the boundary between the first subpixel and the second subpixel, at least some of the emission layer being non-contiguous in the trench; a pore H below the emission layer inside the trench, an upper end of the pore being relatively higher than at least some of the emission layer; and further comprising a second electrode on the emission layer. In one embodiment the emission layer comprises a first stack 710, a second stack 730 and a charge generation layer 720 between the stacks wherein the first stack and charge generation layer are non-contiguous in the trench.
Patent GB-2573936-A (GB)
Title: Hydrobically treated particulates for improved return permeability
Inventor: JESSICA PAOLA RAMIREZ ANGULO
IPC: C09K8/02
Filed: 2017-04-21
Abstract: Compositions, methods, and systems for using particulates treated with one or more hydrophobizing agents in forming filter cakes during drilling to improve filter-cake removal. A method for drilling a wellbore may include circulating a drilling fluid in the wellbore, wherein the drilling fluid comprises particulates treated with one or more hydrophobizing agents; extending the wellbore while the drilling fluid is circulated in the wellbore; and forming a filter cake in the wellbore, wherein the filter cake comprises a portion of the particulates from the drilling fluid.
Patent GB-2578675-A (GB)
Title: Improved forensic methods and products for extracting and amplifying trace DNA for DNA sequencing
Inventor: CARL NICHOLAS MAYERS
IPC: C12Q1/6806
Filed: 2019-09-05
Abstract: A synthetic nucleic acid comprising multiple restriction sites. At least 20% of the nucleotides in the nucleic acid are within a restriction site. The restriction sites are specific to a single restriction enzyme. The restriction enzyme sites can be specific to the restriction enzyme from Streptomyces fimbriatus (Sfil). The recognition site can be 5’-GGCCNNNNNGGCC-3’ wherein ‘N’ represents any nucleotide. The synthetic enzyme can consist of multiple repetitive enzyme recognition sites. A further aspect of the invention is a method wherein trace amounts of DNA are collected from a sample and then amplified in the presence of the synthetic nucleic acid. A restriction enzyme specific to the recognition sites of the synthetic DNA can be added to the trace DNA sample before or after amplification.
Patent GB-2588176-A (GB)
Title: Controlling a surgical instrument
Inventor: Gordon Thomas Deane
IPC: B25J11/00
Filed: 2019-10-11
Abstract: A control system for a surgical instrument in response to manipulation of a remote surgeon input device. The surgical instrument comprises opposable first and second end effector elements 209, 210 connected to a shaft by an articulated coupling 203 comprising a first and second joint driveable by a first and second pair of driving elements so as to permit the first and second end effector element to rotate respectively. The control system responds to a closing motion of the surgeon input device by commanding maximum forces to be applied to the driving elements, to cause the effector elements to rotate in opposing rotational directions towards each other with a maximum closing force. On detecting that the closing motion of the surgeon input device has ceased, commanding a reduction in the force applied to the driving elements, thereby enabling both the end effector elements to be rotated in the same rotational direction in response to a yawing motion of the surgeon input device.
Patent GB-2578836-A (GB)
Title: Device for treating dysarthrosis
Inventor: WAN-HSI SHIH
IPC: A61F5/01
Filed: 2019-11-04
Abstract: A device for treating hallux valgus and/or dysarthrosis includes a first base 11 having one side surface for the heel of a human foot to be attached thereon; a second base 12 having one end disposed on the side surface of the first base and one side surface 20 for the sole of the human foot to be attached thereon; a push portion 13 disposed on the second base and having an abutting surface 32 corresponding in position to an outer side of the first toe of the human foot and configured to abut against an outer side of the first metatarsophalangeal joint of the first toe to be moved between a first position and a second position; and a support portion 14 disposed on the second base and having one end located between the first toe and the second toe of the human foot for abutting against one side of the first toe. A pair of mutually symmetrical structures for left and right feet may be provided for the treatment of dysarthrosis.
Patent GB-2588823-A (GB)
Title: Electrical machine
Inventor: NABEEL AHMED SHIRAZEE
IPC: F04D25/06
Filed: 2019-11-11
Abstract: An electrical pump with a sealed housing with an impeller 12 mounted on a shaft 28 to rotate inside the cavity. An electric motor has a stator 20 outside the housing and a rotor 29 inside the housing cavity on the shaft. When energised the stator creates a rotating magnetic field which radiates through the boundary wall 14 of the housing. This induces rotation in the rotor causing the shaft and impeller to rotate. There may be a rotary coupling device 24 that extends the magnetic field which radiates into the housing, and there may be a ferromagnetic member 27 on the opposite side of the stator to the rotor. The impeller and rotor may be integrally formed. This arrangement avoids the need for shaft seals. Also disclosed is an electrical generator of similar construction.
Patent GB-2590616-A (GB)
Title: Heating systems
Inventor: OLE JOHAN BJERKNES
IPC: H05B3/00
Filed: 2019-12-20
Abstract: A riser heating system arranged for heating a hydrocarbon-conducting riser 1 that comprises a riser steel pipe 2 and that extends from a surface structure 5 towards the seabed 3. The system comprises an electric power supply 13 comprising a first output line 15a and a second output line 15b, a first riser cable 17n, 17a connected to the first output line 15a and a second riser cable 17b connected to the second output line. The first and second riser cables extend along the riser steel pipe. The power supply is configured to supply electric alternating currents in the first and second riser cables, thereby inducing heat in the riser steel pipe.
Patent GB-2584520-A (GB)
Title: Patient support apparatus and method
Inventor: RAJ K GOWDA
IPC: A61G7/057
Filed: 2013-10-11
Abstract: A patient support comprising a cell 400 which is inflatable with a fluid to a pressure above an ambient pressure; a core positioned within the inflatable cell, the core including an elongated resilient member including at least one cavity 426; and a member 427 positioned in a first cavity of the at least one cavity of the elongated resilient member, the member maintains the first cavity in an open configuration when the resilient member is compressed. Preferably the cavity extends through the resilient member from a first side to a second side, and the resilient member is a foam core, which may comprise a first foam core 422 surrounded by a second 424, the second core preferably having a plurality of radially inward extending recesses. A third foam core may be present between the first and the second. There may also be a valve in fluid communication with an interior of the cell.
Patent GB-2585275-A (GB)
Title: Integrated active detuning for magnetic resonance imaging
Inventor: IAN ROBERT OLIPHANT CONNELL
IPC: G01R33/36
Filed: 2020-05-22
Abstract: A coil assembly suitable for performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) comprising: a radio frequency coil 321 operable to be placed over a subject immersed in a main magnet; a quarter-wavelength transformer 303,313 coupled to the RF coil 321 and operable to transform a characteristic impedance of the RF coil to match an impedance of a power amplifier that drives the RF coil; a diode 304,314 placed behind the quarter-wave transformer and away from the RF coil wherein the diode is operable to: when the diode is forward biased, the diode turns the quarter-wave transformer 303,313 into an open circuit such that the power amplifier drives the RF coil with sufficient electrical power for the RF coil to transmit an RF pulse into the portion of the subject, and when the diode is provided with zero or reverse bias, the diode 304,314 turns the quarter-wave transformer 303,313 into a short circuit such that the RF coil is detuned from a Larmor frequency of nuclei of interest immersed in the main magnet; and an associated method and MRI system. The diode may be a positive-intrinsic-negative diode (PIN diode).
Patent GB-2595720-A (GB)
Title: Electrosurgical apparatus
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER PAUL HANCOCK
IPC: A61B18/12
Filed: 2020-06-05
Abstract: An electrosurgical apparatus 22 has a rechargeable power source which may be charged wirelessly. The apparatus comprises: an oscillator 26 for generating electromagnetic energy (e.g. radio or microwave frequency); a controller operable to select an energy delivery profile for the oscillator; a feed structure for conveying the electromagnetic energy to an output; a rechargeable power source 36 arranged to supply power to the oscillator; and a receiver circuit 38 comprising an inductive coupler configured to wirelessly receive power from a transmitter 24 and supply received power to the rechargeable power source. The selection of an energy delivery profile may involve switching the oscillator on or off, or the selection of a pulse profile. The feed structure may be a transformer 32 having at least ten turns of a secondary coil for every turn of a primary coil. The secondary coil may function as the inductive coupler.
Patent GB-2587857-A (GB)
Title: Lubricant
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER MARTIN FRAPPELL
IPC: C10M125/22
Filed: 2020-06-19
Abstract: A cycle lubricant comprises or includes tungsten disulphide. A cycle may include bicycles, tricycles or motorcycles, and the drive train thereof may be lubricated. The lubricant may contain slack wax and/or water, and the tungsten disulphide may be infused. The tungsten disulphide may be present at 0.1 to 10 %.
Patent GB-2600154-A (GB)
Title: Drug optimisation by active learning
Inventor: WILLEM PAUL VAN HOORN
IPC: G16C20/70
Filed: 2020-10-23
Abstract: Method 60 for computational drug design, comprising defining 61 a population of compounds, each compound having one or more structural features; defining 62 a training set of compounds from the population for which one or more biological properties are known; selecting 63 a subset of compounds from the population which are not in the training set; and, determining 64 a subset score of the selected subset in dependence on structural features of the compounds in the selected subset, and evaluating the selected subset based on the determined subset score. The subset score is determined in dependence on a frequency of the structural features in the population and on a frequency of the structural features in a sampled set comprising the training set and the selected subset. The evaluation step may comprise determining whether the subset score satisfies a prescribed condition; which condition may be that the subset score is greater than a prescribed minimum threshold. The method may comprise, if the prescribed condition is satisfied, synthesising the compounds in the selected subset to determine biological properties of the compounds, and may comprise adding the synthesised compounds to the training set.
Patent GB-2600730-A (GB)
Title: Robotic vacuum cleaning system
Inventor: ANDREW JAMES SHAW
IPC: A47L5/22
Filed: 2020-11-06
Abstract: A vacuum cleaning system comprises a robotic unit ( 4, fig 1) comprising a traction arrangement 72, and a docking interface 84 for receiving a handheld vacuum cleaner 6. The robotic unit defines a suction flow path which extends from a suction port to the docking interface. The vacuum cleaning system further comprises a handheld vacuum cleaner configured to be docked with the docking interface via a suction port, the handheld vacuum cleaner comprising a vacuum motor for drawing air through the suction flow path when docked with the docking interface. The vacuum cleaning system further includes a suction tool 92 configured to attach to the suction port of the robotic unit and also to the suction port of the handheld vacuum cleaner.
Patent GB-2601003-A (GB)
Title: Lock actuator
Inventor: JOHN MCLOUGHLIN
IPC: E05B17/20
Filed: 2020-11-17
Abstract: A cylinder lock actuator comprising a first lock cylinder, a second lock cylinder, a cam comprising an axial bore and a clutch mechanism (13, including part 15), the clutch mechanism selectively engaging either lock cylinder with the cam, wherein a torsion ring 14 is located within the axial bore of the cam and in a first state transmits torque from the clutch mechanism to the cam and in a second state can rotate freely within the axial bore of the cam without transmitting torque from the clutch mechanism to the cam. The torsion ring may be held within the cam in the second state by a lip on the edge of the cam. A spring, for example a cone spring, may bias the torsion ring into the second state. In use, when the lock is attacked and a lock cylinder is removed, the spring pushes the torsion ring into the second state which means it does not transmit torque to the cam and as it rotates freely cannot be manipulated to rotate the cam and unlock the lock.
Patent GB-2591176-A (GB)
Title: Wind turbine blade inspection system
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER ROBERT CIESLAK
IPC: F03D80/50
Filed: 2019-02-11
Abstract: A robotic device includes four or more legs 14 and is configured to crawl over a surface of a wind turbine blade for inspection of and/or maintenance. The body 12 has row of legs on each side of the body, the legs having articulated limb segments 16, 18 and a foot 40 which may include a suction cup 28 connected to a pneumatic supply for securing the robotic device to the wind turbine blade. The foot is attached to the lower limb segment by an articulated joint, such as a ball and socket joint, allowing the foot and limbs to straddle the leading edge of the blade and actuators 24, 26 may effect the limb movement. The device may incorporate a camera, sensor, resin chamber, grinding device or cleaning apparatus and may be configured to crawl inside the blade.