baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2399097-A (GB)
Title: Gutter and support member and method for attaching them to a wall
Inventor: CARTER MARK
IPC: E04D13/064
Filed: 2003-03-03
Abstract: A method of attaching a generally U-shaped guttering member 30, having first and second limbs and a base connecting the first 34 and second 35 limbs, to a substantially upright structure, 18 the method including securing to the substantially upright structure 18 a support member 12; the support member 12 having a first part which extends along the substantially upright structure, and a second part 26 which extends outwardly, substantially transversely, of the first part at a lower end thereof, 26 the first part including a receiving formation 22 which opens downwardly towards the second part, wherein the method includes inserting an edge portion of the first limb 34 of the generally U-shaped guttering member 30 into the receiving formation 22, and supporting the base 30 of the generally U-shaped guttering member 30 on the second part 26 of the support member. Also disclosed is the guttering 30 and support member 12.
Patent GB-2399350-A (GB)
Title: Forming tungsten or tungsten containing films using krypton or xenon as sputter gas; Tungsten/tungsten nitride stacks
Inventor: RICH PAUL
IPC: H01L21/285
Filed: 2003-03-11
Abstract: A method of sputtering a tungsten or tungsten containing film from a tungsten target on to a semi-conductor wafer includes using krypton or xenon as sputter gas. The sputter gas may include nitrogen in which case tungsten nitride is deposited. The sputter gas may additionally include argon. The wafer may be placed on a platen which is negatively DC biased. In a different aspect a tungsten/tungsten nitride stock is produced on a wafer by first sputtering a tungsten nitride and then sputtering a tungsten film on the tungsten nitride film and is characterised by performing the two sputtering processes in a single chamber using a single target.
Patent GB-2390532-A (GB)
Title: 'Scarf' and matching body cover
Inventor: OSEKU-AFFUL SALOME
IPC: A41D1/14
Filed: 2003-06-25
Abstract: A clothing outfit 2 comprises a scarf-like garment 4 and a body cover 6 having matching designs. The two garments are sized such that can be worn in a number of different ways on various parts of the body, for example, the scarf-like garment can be worn as a head-tie (Fig 3) and the body cover can be worn around the waist as a skirt. Both garments may be made from the same or different materials such as silk or polyester. Also claimed is a package comprising the said clothing outfit, packaging and instructions detailing the different ways in which the two garments can be worn. A belt-type accessory (28, Fig 21) is also described.
Patent GB-2407007-A (GB)
Title: Adaptive Space Time Decoding using soft decisions
Inventor: SANDELL MAGNUS
IPC: H03M13/45
Filed: 2003-10-09
Abstract: A symbol estimator 29 for a wireless receiver feeds soft values <B>bextr</B> back into an equaliser 19 via a statistical computing block 21 in order to output further improved soft decisions. The received signal <B>r</B> may be block coded via several transmitters, thus requiring iterative Space Time Block Code (STBC) decoding, or from a single transmitter via multiple paths. The equaliser uses Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) correction, and the statistical block calculates the mean and covariance from the a priori information, comprising log likelihood values, supplied by the soft demodulator 23 and optionally also the Soft Input Soft Output (SISO) channel decoder 11. After 2 or 3 iterations, or once a certain reliability <B>Ree</B> is achieved, the soft bit estimates are output as final hard decision values via a deinterleaver (25).
Patent GB-2406405-A (GB)
Title: Portable data storage device with playback facility
Inventor: HU CHIA-CHE
IPC: G06F3/06
Filed: 2003-10-16
Abstract: A portable data storage device with a playback facility comprises a flash memory card reader 20, storage unit 40, control unit 50, playback device 60 and a data transmission unit 80. The control unit 50 may receive a storage command from an input unit 30 and cause the reading of first data from a memory card 21 and/or third data to be read from an external device 90 and stored as second data in the storage unit 40. An output command may also be received and cause the first or second data to be displayed on the playback device 60. The playback device may comprise a multimedia decoder and an image encoder and is preferably connected to the device by an RS232 or Firewire (IEEE 1394) connector. The playback device screen may be an LCD or OLED display. The data transmission unit may be a USB or Firewire interface.
Patent GB-2408868-A (GB)
Title: Authoring an audiovisual product to include menu data
Inventor: GREEN STUART ANTONY
IPC: G11B27/034
Filed: 2003-11-04
Abstract: A method and system for creating an audiovisual product. The method has three main stages. The first stage defines components implicitly representing functional sections of audiovisual content and transitions that represent movements between components. The second stage expands the components and transitions to provide a set of explicitly realised AV assets and an expanded intermediate data structure of nodes and links. Each node is associated with one of the AV assets and the links represent movement from one node to another. The third stage creates the audiovisual product in a predetermined output format, using the AV assets and the expanded intermediate data structure of the nodes and the links, wherein the audiovisual product comprises data representing a menu. Generation of the menu data may be achieved by creating a series of stills corresponding to views of the menu. By moving between these stills along a data structure of navigation between the stills in response to selection of a menu item by a user a windows type menu may be emulated.
Patent GB-2403071-A (GB)
Title: Detachable power pack
Inventor: CHANG RICHARD
IPC: H01M50/296
Filed: 2004-05-14
Abstract: A combination of power supply and a detachable electric implement (1) is constructed to include a housing (2) holding a power pack (4), a first coupling device (22) fixedly located on the housing (2), an electric implement (1), which can be an electric sealing apparatus, electric fan, flash light, a mobile phone or any of a variety of small handheld electric apparatuses, and a second coupling device (52) fixedly located on the electric implement for fastening to the first coupling device to secure the electric implement to the housing for enabling the electric implement (1) to obtain the necessary working electric power from the power pack.
Patent GB-2415860-A (GB)
Title: A method of providing a broadcast radio service to a remote terminal
Inventor: ROWSE GRAHAM
IPC: H04L9/00
Filed: 2004-06-30
Abstract: A method of providing a service at a remote terminal comprising: receiving information broadcast by a commercial radio station in a broadcast radio channel; discriminating an identifier of an application within the received broadcast information; initiating an authentication process for authenticating broadcast information received via the broadcast channel; and in response to a positive authentication, enabling use of information received via the broadcast radio channel by the identified application.
Patent GB-2402899-A (GB)
Title: Processing system
Inventor: CHEAH SINGEE
IPC: B25B5/06
Filed: 2003-06-26
Abstract: A processing system (fig 1, 10) which includes a work piece clamp assembly comprising a support frame member, a plurality of clamping devices 14 capable of being supported by the support frame member. The clamping devices are directed towards having a lower clamp unit 14a including a pair of lower jaws 30, 32 and a first actuation means; an upper clamp unit 14b which includes a first upper jaw unit 36 and second upper jaw unit 38 and a second actuation means; and an intermediate jaw unit 42. The lower jaw unit and the intermediate jaw unit have adjacent clamp surfaces to clamp a first work piece W1; and the upper jaw unit, and the intermediate jaw unit have adjacent clamp surfaces to clamp a second work piece W2.
Patent GB-2408386-A (GB)
Title: Latch with switch
Inventor: ICHIMARU TAKAHIDE
IPC: H01H13/56
Filed: 2004-10-19
Abstract: In a latch with a switch (L), when a movable member (41) is pushed into a housing (11) against a force of a coil spring (61), the movable member is locked in a pushed-in position by a lock mechanism and a switch is turned on. When the movable member is pushed again into the housing, the movable member is returned to a protruding position and the switch is turned off. The switch is formed of a pin (81) attached to the movable member and having both ends protruding from two opposite sides of the movable member; and a pair of fixed terminals (31) fixed inside the housing. When the movable member is at the protruding position, both ends of the pin become a conducting state, and when the movable member is at the pushed-in position, both ends of the pin become a non-conducting state. The conducting and non-conducting states can be reversed.
Patent GB-2420218-A (GB)
Title: DVD video on-screen timer
Inventor: SPURGEON PETER JOHN CHARLES
IPC: G11B27/10
Filed: 2004-11-16
Abstract: A DVD video includes titles of known duration. Once started, the DVD will play for a time corresponding to the sum of the durations of the title chosen and the following titles. The remaining running time will be continually displayed on the screen. The final minutes of the video may indicate the remaining running time with particular prominence and may include audible warning signals. The DVD can be played to fill the time before the start of a television program that the viewer does not want to miss.
Patent GB-2410170-A (GB)
Title: Stump grinding apparatus having a rotatable toothed disc
Inventor: PAUMIER JAMES
IPC: A01G23/06
Filed: 2004-12-15
Abstract: A stump grinding mechanism includes a disc (50) having recesses (60) formed in an outer peripheral surface thereof. Peripheral cutting assemblies (58A,58B) are mounted in respective recesses (60). Each cutting assembly (58A,58B) includes a holder (70) fixed in the recess (60), and a cutter tooth (90) mounted in the holder (70). The cutter tooth (90) includes a shank (92) extending through the holder and secured thereto by a nut (100). The nut (100) is disposed within a pocket (80) of the holder to be shielded during a cutting operation. The holder includes gauge marks (120-134) to facilitate a proper angular orienting of the cutting assembly (58A,58B) within the recess (60). Some of the cutter teeth [106] have flat cutter faces (108) optimized for cutting wood fiber, whereas others of the cutter teeth (90) have cutter faces defined by converging surface portions to be optimized for cutting/displacing rocks.
Patent GB-2421215-A (GB)
Title: Greetings card with confetti ejection apparatus
Inventor: NEWLAND ADAM PETER
IPC: B42D15/02
Filed: 2004-12-16
Abstract: A greetings card (10) formed from a pair of first and second leaves (11, 12) divided by a hinge line (13), includes confetti ejection apparatus, in the form of a confetti chamber (14) mounted on an inner surface of the second leaf (12). A confetti ejection member (26) is mounted for movement within the chamber (14). Deployment of the ejection member (26) is prevented when the card (10) is closed, by means of a retainer (23) mounted on an inner surface of the first leaf (11). However, when the card (10) is opened, the retainer (23) is released, allowing deployment of the ejection member (26), and thus causing ejection of a measure of confetti (25) held within the chamber (14).
Patent GB-2413606-A (GB)
Title: Clamped pipe connector seal arrangement
Inventor: MATZNER MARK D
IPC: F16L35/00
Filed: 2005-01-20
Abstract: A pipe connection comprising first and second tubular members 11 each having a bore 27, an end surrounded by a flange 29 and an annular recess 43 in the bore at the flanged end, the connection also comprising a metal ring 47 which has an outward extending rib 53 that locates between the ends of the tubular members 11, and a pair of legs 48 which extend in opposite axial directions from the rib 53, a pair of elastomeric seals 51 further being provided which each seal between one of the legs 48 and one of the recesses 43, as well as a clamp 15 that has cam surfaces 37 which engage the flanges 29 to pull the tubular members 11 axially toward each other. Each of the flanges 29 may have a tapered cam surface 35 which engages a cam surface 37 of clamp 15. Each of the legs 48 may have a conical outer surface 49 that engages a conical portion 43a of one of the recesses 43, both recesses 43 having respective conical portions 43a.
Patent GB-2421636-A (GB)
Title: Built-in antenna for mobile communications having spring connectors between antenna and circuit board
Inventor: NA GI LYONG
IPC: H01Q1/24
Filed: 2005-04-13
Abstract: A building antenna assembly for a mobile communications device comprises a circuit board 110, a case 120 mounted on the board, possibly with clips 126 and an antenna 130 mounted on the case, possibly by bonding or clips 127a,b. The case 120 has one or more passageways 125 formed through the case exposing the underlying circuit board to the overlying antenna. A resilient electrically conducting part 140, comprises contacting ends 141 143 and a resilent body part 140a such as a meander spring or a coil spring (fig 6). The resilient contact part is located in the or each passageway so that a resilient force is produced on both the circuit board (112 fig 3) and the antenna (143 fig 3) when assembled (fig 3). The coil spring or meander spring may have a narrowed part which co-operates with a narrowing in the passageway (figs 3,5,7). The meander spring may be flat or may be folded in many planes (fig 91-c) or may be a curved surface (fig 9d).
Patent GB-2414945-A (GB)
Title: Heated spray applicator
Inventor: SROKA JEROME J
IPC: B05D1/02
Filed: 2005-05-31
Abstract: A spray applicator (10) for spraying a polyurethane mixture (18) in a spray forming process is provided with a jacket (14) that partially encloses a portion of a spray tool (12) of the spray applicator (10) and retains a heated gas that is supplied from a source of heated gas. The spray tool (12) receives polyurethane mixture comprising polyurethane forming components at one end that are dispensed in a spray (18) via a nozzle (32) at the opposite end. The gas heats the polyurethane mixture (18) within the spray tool (12) and is then emitted from the jacket (14) to heat and shape the polyurethane spray (18) . A method of spray forming an article with a reactant mixture is also disclosed. The method comprises heating a reactant mixture (18) in a spray applicator (10) as it sprays the mixture (18) . The spray pattern is shaped by impingement of the heated gas on the reactant mixture (18) as the heated gas is released from the jacket (14).
Patent GB-2462996-A (GB)
Title: A moulding material
Inventor: KEMP GRAHAM
IPC: C08L63/02
Filed: 2005-07-19
Abstract: A B-staged moulding material comprises discrete fibre pieces embedded in an epoxy resin matrix. The matrix comprises at least one epoxy resin material and at least one further resin material together with at least one B-staging agent. The matrix further comprises a curing agent and a cure catalyst and/or cure accelerator. For preference the B-staging agent is a primary or aromatic amine, whilst preferably the resin is diglycididylethers of bisphenol-A.
Patent GB-2429583-A (GB)
Title: Solid State Capacitor
Inventor: BILER MARTIN
IPC: H01G9/042
Filed: 2005-08-26
Abstract: A method of manufacturing/ apparatus of a solid state capacitor comprises: a porous anode body of a conducting ceramic material preferably a nitride or niobium oxide; a dielectric layer formed on the said anode body; and a cathode layer formed on the dielectric layer, the cathode layer is formed from an electrically conducting polymer. Preferably the polymer is a monomer formed from acetylene, thiophene, pyrrole or an aniline. The polymer may also include a dopant such as a metal cation - Fe3 tosylate and an organic acid -sulphonic.
Patent GB-2429648-A (GB)
Title: Partial knee prosthesis
Inventor: CHANA GURSHARAN SINGH
IPC: A61F2/38
Filed: 2005-08-31
Abstract: The invention provides either a medial or lateral knee implant for use in a knee joint. The medial knee implant comprises (a) a tibial tray; (b) a tibial insert; and (c) a femoral component; wherein the knee implant does not comprise any lateral component for location on the lateral tibial condyle or the lateral femoral condyle. The invention also provides a lateral knee implant for use in a knee joint comprising: (a) a tibial tray; (b) a tibial insert; and (c) a femoral component; wherein the knee implant does not comprise any medial component for location on the medial tibial condyle or the medial femoral condyle. The tibial tray may be made from cobalt-chromium and/or cobalt-chromium-molybdenum and/or titanium. The superior face of the tibial tray may be cobalt-chromium whilst the osseus face of the tray may be titanium.
Patent GB-2419001-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for logging the use of hardware components in a computer system.
Inventor: HODGE HUNT
IPC: G06F11/22
Filed: 2005-09-21
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of collecting via the basic input/output system (BIOS) of a computer system data about the usage of hardware components of the computer. The usage data is logged into non-volatile memory on the computer. The usage data collected may be direct usage data, such as closures of the lid, power downs, docking to a docking station, the connection of an external device, interacting with a PCMCIA, or the number of times a wireless link was used. The data collected may be indirect usage data, such as maximum temperature of the CPU, duration time that the CPU is running, maximum temperature of a hard-drive or the maximum temperature of the battery. The system may log data about user triggered hardware events. The method may log usage data for a plurality of computer systems and based on the received data generate usage profiles.
Patent GB-2431230-A (GB)
Title: Electric flame effect fire with a tilting front panel
Inventor: WATTS JOHN LESLIE
IPC: F24C7/00
Filed: 2005-10-24
Abstract: Modern slim-line fire designs are now popular which are shallow from front to back and thus can be free standing, wall hanging or inset into a wall without much inset depth requirement. Fashion requires clean, unfussy lines and this invention can satisfy these requirements. When this fire is off the front face presents a substantially uniform flush (flat) face without sight of heater grill, slots or louvers. This is achieved by providing a housing (1), a heat source (8) located within the housing, a movable front panel (9) (e.g. of translucent glass) attached in the housing (1) and an actuating means (10) (e.g. a motor) capable of moving said front panel (9) relative to the heat source (8), arranged in such a way that the front panel (9) can be moved mechanically to allow heat (13) generated by the heat source (8) to exit the housing to the exterior. The heat source (8) may be electronically powered, the front panel (9) may pivot about an axis between its bottom and top edges, and actuating means (10) may be located near the top or bottom edges. A flame effect may be provided.
Patent GB-2419940-A (GB)
Title: Metal nano-void photonic crystal for enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Inventor: BAUMBERG JEREMY
IPC: G01N21/55
Filed: 2005-11-04
Abstract: A planar optical platform for generating a Raman signal from a foreign object (e.g. analyte molecules 211), comprises an input region and an output region, for respectively receiving and extracting optical radiation, optically coupled to a plasmonic band structure region. The plasmonic band structure region comprises a layer 103 of a first material, having a first refractive index, patterned with an array of sub-regions 201 of a second material, having a second refractive index, wherein at least a side-wall of each sub-region is coated with a metallic or metallodielectric layer 102, 105, 106. The array of sub-regions gives rise to a plasmonic band structure and, in use, each sub-region confines a plasmon resonance excited by optical radiation coupled into the plasmonic band structure region, which gives rise to a Raman signal from a foreign object placed proximate the plasmonic band structure region. The platform may be incorporated into a spectroscopic measurement system and is particularly useful for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of analyte molecules.
Patent GB-2425750-A (GB)
Title: Power cord handling device
Inventor: PARK JOUNG-SOO
IPC: B65H75/36
Filed: 2005-11-17
Abstract: A power cord (figure 3, C) handling device for a vacuum cleaner or power tool is described. The device comprises a grip unit 100 and a handle 200 connected to the grip unit 100. The grip unit 100 itself comprises: an operation lever 110, a lever housing 120 pivotably supporting the operation lever 110 with first and second roller assemblies 131, 132 mounted on the operation lever 110 and the lever housing 120 respectively. The roller assemblies 131, 132 are mounted so as to face each other with a resilient member 140 interposed between the operation lever 110 and the lever housing 120 to bias the first and second roller assemblies 131,132 towards each other.
Patent GB-2439579-A (GB)
Title: Target device programmer
Inventor: FORD SIMON ANDREW
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2006-06-30
Abstract: A development programmer 10 for a target device 16 is provided with a mass storage interface 12 for connecting to a host 2 so as to appear as a mass storage device to the host 2. A target programmer 18 is responsive to an image transferred from the host 2 to the programmer 10 to apply that image to the target device 16. Making the programmer appear as a mass storage device to the host avoids the need to load additional software or drivers; only a generic mass storage device driver is required. Mass storage interface 12 may be a USB mass storage interface. Target device 16 may be provided on a separate board (26, Fig. 2) and may be coupled to programmer (24) via a JTAG interface (28, 30). The target device may be a field programmable gate array (FPGA) and target programmer 18 may be operable to configure the FPGA. Host 2 may be coupled to a web-based compiler 6 or, alternatively, a web-based synthesis tool for synthesizing a high level design language (HDL) description for a FPGA.
Patent GB-2442023-A (GB)
Title: Memory access security management
Inventor: KERSHAW DANIEL
IPC: G06F1/00
Filed: 2006-09-13
Abstract: A data processing apparatus and method for generating access requests is provided. A bus master 200 (and 50, Figure 1) is provided which can operate either in a secure domain or a non-secure domain of the data processing apparatus, according to a signal TZ_NS_CTL received from external to the bus master. The signal is generated to be fixed during normal operation of the bus master, such that the bus master is fixed to operate in either the secure or non-secure domains. Control logic 230 is provided which, when the bus master device is operating in a secure domain, is operable to generate a domain specifying signal associated with an access request generated by the bus master core 210 indicating either secure or non-secure access, in dependence on either a default memory map or securely defined memory region descriptors 240. Thus, the bus master operating in a secure domain can generate both secure and non-secure accesses, without itself being able to switch between secure and non-secure operation.