baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2514756-A (GB)
Title: Ocean-wave energy conversion apparatus and float therefor
Inventor: OVADIA SHMUEL
IPC: F03B13/18
Filed: 2013-03-24
Abstract: A float 14 for an ocean wave energy conversion apparatus has an angled front face 70 to reduce stresses from wave impact. The front edge 64 may have angled upper 72 and lower 70 surfaces, which may meet at a curved front portion 74 at about 60% to 80% of the height of the float. The float may also have an angled rear surface 66, and angled side surfaces (see front view, figure 6) to facilitate calm flow past the float. The front and rear surfaces may be angled at between 35 and 55 degrees, e.g. 45 degrees. The float may be pivoted to a support structure and use a hydraulic power take off.
Patent GB-2497708-A (GB)
Title: Water intake riser assembly for an off-shore structure and method of producing a liquefied hydrocarbon stream
Inventor: EFTHYMIOU MICHALAKIS
IPC: B63J99/00
Filed: 2011-11-16
Abstract: Described is a water intake riser assembly (105) that is suspendable from an off-shore structure (102). The water intake riser assembly comprises at least a first tubular conduit (106) extending along a length direction. A distal portion of the first tubular conduit comprises a water intake section (109). The water intake section comprises a tubular section having a side wall circumferencing a round the length direction and defining a flow passage in the length direction with an aperture having a first transverse cross sectional area. The side wall is perforated with a plurality of through holes (405) forming a plurality of water intake openings. An aggregate area defined by the plurality of through holes is larger than the first transverse cross sectional area.
Patent GB-2500523-A (GB)
Title: Wireless portable battery capacity test system
Inventor: DEVEAU EDWARD W
IPC: G01R31/36
Filed: 2012-01-20
Abstract: A battery capacity test system includes one or more wireless battery capacity test ("BCT") sense modules, a continuous load unit, and a wireless data collection unit. The wireless data collection unit interfaces with a computer.. During a battery capacity test, the wireless BCT sense module (or modules) continuously monitors the voltage of the battery cell (or cells) to which it is connected. In an aspect, it also continuously monitors the temperature of the battery cell (or cells) and intercell voltage (or voltages) across an intercell connector (or connectors). Each wireless BCT sense module wirelessly transmits the voltage and temperature data it collects to the wireless data collection unit.
Patent GB-2518209-A (GB)
Title: Pole-piece Bonding
Inventor: KING CHARLES EDMUND
IPC: H02K21/24
Filed: 2013-09-13
Abstract: A radial wall 100 for a stator housing to be located in said gap between a rotor and the stator of a permanent magnet yokeless and segmented armature (YASA) machine having clamshells with stator coils and bars located there between is manufactured by providing a polymer material membrane 110, pressing at least said end or shoes of a set of stator bars 180 into said membrane whilst said polymer is mouldable wherein at least said end or shoe of the stator bars is formed of porous material, solidifying said polymer to hold said set of stator bars in their respective positions; and manufacturing said housing using said radial wall. The resin membrane which may contain woven glass fibre reinforcement 160, may be an engineering polymer (e.g. PPA, PEEK, PPS, ABS, PA) wherein said reinforcement inhibits said stator bars from pushing through said membrane. A thermoplastic polymer member 175 forming a supplementary resin supply and providing flashing 176. Fibre reinforced laminates 112 (eg fig7a) or injection moulded reinforcing features 120 may be applied to the membrane, the latter forming pockets for the bar ends. In an alternative embodiment the end face or shoe may fit into an opening in the membrane.
Patent GB-2522912-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum cleaner tool
Inventor: TUCKER MATTHEW ADAM
IPC: A47L9/06
Filed: 2014-02-10
Abstract: A tool 1for a vacuum cleaner comprising a nozzle 2 and a duct 3 for attachment to a wand, hose or the like of the vacuum cleaner. One or more suction openings 15 are provided in a base 6 of the nozzle. A front 9 of the nozzle 2 comprises a chamfered section 11 and a further section 12. A suction opening17 is then provided in the further section 12, and the chamfered section 11 is at least partly closed. An internal angle formed between the chamfered section and the further section is greater than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees (see fig 4). One or more dirt-sweeping elements 4 may be position on base 6.
Patent GB-2527490-A (GB)
Title: A bearing block for a slat support assembly
Inventor: PARKER SIMON
IPC: B64C9/26
Filed: 2014-04-17
Abstract: A bearing block 22 for supporting and guiding movement of a slat support arm 15 comprises a plurality of bearings 23,24,25,26 mountable therein so as to lie in rolling contact with an associated bearing track 16,17 on a slat support arm extending through the bearing block. The bearing block forms part of a slat support assembly in which the slat support arm is movable to deploy a slat attached to one end of said slat support arm from a leading edge of an aircraft wing. Each bearing comprises a bearing element 30 rotatable about a shaft 32 fixed to the bearing block and is configured so that an axis of rotation of each bearing element angularly adjusts relative to an axis of the shaft on which it is rotatably mounted. The arrangement is intended to compensate for misalignment between said shaft and an associated bearing track.
Patent GB-2525613-A (GB)
Title: Reduction of processing duplicates of queued requests
Inventor: STEELE GABRIELLE ZARA
IPC: G06F13/16
Filed: 2014-04-29
Abstract: Method, system and implementing computer program for reducing the processing of duplicated queued requests. The method including: accessing a queue of requests 101, wherein the requests include multiple read requests; determining at runtime if grouping requests is efficient for one or more selected resources 102. Efficiency may be measured against savings in, for example, processing time, memory, disk, database or network, usage. If it is determined to be efficient to group requests then grouping requests by: grouping together two or more identical read requests for processing as a single request 104; and determining if there are any intervening write requests between grouped read requests (202 figure 2) and, if so, ungrouping the one or more read requests (204 figure 2) after the intervening write request. The grouping priority may also conform to grouping identical read requests after more general read requests. The general read request may return a response which is a superset of a less general read request. Determining efficiency at runtime may include selecting a resource, determining an average response usage of the response request, determining an average grouping processing usage of the response per request, and if the average request response usage of the resource is greater than the average queue grouping response usage of the resource per request then grouping request is denoted as efficient for that selected source.
Patent GB-2527062-A (GB)
Title: Pressure switch
Inventor: NICHOLAS SIMON
IPC: H01M8/06
Filed: 2014-06-10
Abstract: A pressure sensing switch comprises a dome member supported on a substrate such as printed circuit board 3 at an intermediate position 4. An actuator 15 displaces an actuation portion of the dome inboard of intermediate position 4, flattening the dome and causing it to transition from a first configuration where an outboard contact 53 is in contact with a connector 54 to a second configuration where contact 53 is not in contact with connector 54. The dome may have a second contact 57 to contact a second connector 55 in a third, partial configuration intermediate the first and second configurations. Contact regions 53,57 may be on opposite legs of the dome (fig 3) which can flex with a non-linear characteristic including a negative stiffness portion for hysteresis. The actuator can comprise coaxial rods 7,15 and spring 14 and transmit force from a diaphragm 10. The pressure-sensing switch is optimal for use in sensing a high pressure condition in a reaction chamber to disable a pump pumping reactant to the reaction chamber. A particular application is to fuel supply cartridges for fuel cells.
Patent GB-2530474-A (GB)
Title: A drying apparatus for a medical device
Inventor: BURTON CHRISTIAN
IPC: A61L2/26
Filed: 2014-06-16
Abstract: A drying apparatus for a medical device such as an endoscope valve comprises an enclosure 1 configured to house and retain at least one such device. The enclosure includes an air inlet 14 and at least one air outlet. A connection port 16 is arranged to connect the inlet to an air supply source, which may be pressurised, such that air that is supplied to the connection port flows through the air inlet into the housing. The at least one air outlet is arranged to allow air to flow out of the housing. There may be air entrainment means between the port and inlet to create a Venturi effect in order to draw in atmospheric air and increase the flow mass. The housing may be able to be opened and closed to insert devices, and locked permanently, with a frangible portion allowing re-opening only when broken.
Patent GB-2529713-A (GB)
Title: Container
Inventor: NELSON WAYNE
IPC: A47K11/06
Filed: 2014-09-01
Abstract: An expandable container 10 with an enclosing wall and an aperture 94. The container has a first, collapsed configuration and second, expanded configuration in which the wall defines a receiving volume. The container is made from a sheet of material folded along fold line 18 to form a base portion (B, fig 2) and an overlying roof portion T. Preferably the fold line defines an edge of the enclosing wall. There may be material 48, 50 on opposite sides of the fold line which is secured to each other, preferably sealingly. Preferably there is material extending from the ends of the fold line, which is secured together to form flaps 44, 46. There may be handles 90, 92 hingedly or foldably attached above the roof portion. The handles may be made from material either side of the fold line which is secured together. The aperture may be located at the end of a tubular neck portion.
Patent GB-2538931-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for identifying data sessions at a VPN gateway
Inventor: YING KWAN
IPC: H04L29/08
Filed: 2014-03-27
Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying Internet Protocol (IP) data sessions at a VPN gateway. The VPN gateway receives encapsulating packets, wherein the encapsulating packets encapsulate IP packets. A corresponding VPN connection through which the encapsulating packets are received is identified. The VPN gateway decapsulates the encapsulating packets to retrieve the IP packets and performs deep packet inspection (DPI) on the IP packets in order to identify one or more data sessions that the IP packets belong to. A DPI database is updated accordingly, based on, at least in part, the one or more data sessions.
Patent GB-2525696-A (GB)
Title: Arrangement for choosing transceiver nodes in a mobile telecommunications network
Inventor: BOCCARDI FEDERICO
IPC: H04W76/02
Filed: 2014-11-12
Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a mobile telecommunications device UE , a plurality of transceiver nodes , and control means operable to choose at least one of the transceiver nodes for use by the mobile telecommunications device for uplink communications and to choose at least one of the transceiver nodes for use by the mobile telecommunications device for downlink communications. The uplink and downlink nodes may be different i.e. an uncoupled network. The control means is operable to choose the at least one of the transceiver nodes for use by the mobile telecommunications device for uplink communications based upon at least one criterion that is independent of received signal power/path loss at the UE, such as: the number of the transceiver node antennas; the antenna gain of the or each of the transceiver node antennas; the maximum uplink transmit power allowed by the transceiver node from the mobile telecommunications device: the load of the transceiver node; the backhaul capacity of the transceiver node; and/or the interference level in the uplink to the transceiver node from the UE. An additional method of selecting a transceiver using transceiver characteristics and the received signal power is also disclosed. An arrangement for reducing interference in situations where mobile telecommunications devices engage in Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is also disclosed
Patent GB-2516400-A (GB)
Title: Method, apparatus and system for a per-dram addressability mode
Inventor: BAINS KULJIT
IPC: G11C11/4096
Filed: 2013-06-05
Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for programming an operation mode of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device. In an embodiment, a memory controller stores a value in a mode register of a DRAM device, the value specifying whether a per-DRAM addressability (PDA) mode of the DRAM device is enabled. An external contact of the DRAM device is coupled to the memory controller device via a signal line of a data bus. In another embodiment, the memory controller sends a signal to the external contact while the PDA mode of the DRAM device is enabled, the signal to specify whether one or more features of the DRAM device are programmable.
Patent GB-2532789-A (GB)
Title: Absolute rotary encoder
Inventor: JINDONG LIU
IPC: G01D5/14
Filed: 2014-11-28
Abstract: A rotary encoder is provided for measuring absolute rotation around an axis 112 of the rotary encoder. The rotary encoder comprises a magnetised element 100 comprising first and second surfaces at an angle to one another; a first magnetic track 102 provided on the first surface and a second magnetic track 104 provided on the second surface, wherein the first and second magnetic tracks subtend an angle θ around the axis of the rotary encoder, and wherein each magnetic track comprises a number of magnetic pole pairs, a magnetic pole pair being formed of two poles defining regions of opposite magnetic polarization. The numbers of magnetic pole pairs in each track are different and have a greatest common factor of one. Also included are first and second magnetic sensor arrangements 106, 108, the first magnetic sensor arrangement arranged to detect a magnetic field of the first magnetic track and the second magnetic sensor arrangement arranged to detect a magnetic field of the second magnetic track, wherein the magnetic sensor arrangements are rotatably coupled to the magnetised element around the axis of the rotary encoder.
Patent GB-2528747-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle door latch device
Inventor: YODA YUJI
IPC: E05B85/02
Filed: 2015-05-18
Abstract: A vehicle door latch device, a body has an engagement mechanism engagable with a striker of a vehicle body to close a door. A casing 11 and a cover 12 are provided. In the casing, an operation mechanism is provided and switched between unlocking state enabling the engagement mechanism to disengage from the striker and a locking state disabling it. A metal protector cover 31 comprises an upper protection wall 311 which covers and protects an upper bound portion of the casing and cover and a whole upper area thereof, and holds upper parts of the casing and cover, thereby improving antitheft performance against a burglar prying casing and cover apart. The protective cover may include a protection wall 314 for a key cylinder mounting portion 119. A water proof cover 30 may be provided.
Patent GB-2538986-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for adaptive motion compensation
Inventor: Antonio Nevado
IPC: G05D3/12
Filed: 2015-06-02
Abstract: Controlling the motion of a load suspended from a vessel to decouple it from the vessel motion, comprising: a) measuring vessel motion data for a first time period; b) measuring a performance parameter of an actuator; c) generating a predicted motion model of the vessel for a subsequent second time period from the motion data, and generating a predicted performance parameter of the actuator for the second time period; d) generating a control algorithm for the actuator to effect a predetermined response during the second time period using the predicted motion model and the predicted performance parameter; e) determining a first correction factor from differences between motion data and the predicted motion model and a second correction factor from differences between the actuator performance parameter and predicted performance parameter; f) repeating steps a e iteratively utilising the first and second correction factors. The actuator may be a winch. The performance parameter of the actuator may be a deviation from a predefined standard performance parameter such as the inertia, speed, acceleration or position of the actuator, the coupling force on the actuator from the load, or the response time of the actuator to implement a control signal.
Patent GB-2540187-A (GB)
Title: Agricultural building
Inventor: BRUCE HUTCHON
IPC: A01K31/18
Filed: 2015-07-07
Abstract: An agricultural building for rearing animals comprises a multi-level structure 5 having a plurality of levels for rearing animals. Each level comprises a floor 11, 14 and animal access 17 between the levels to allow animals to move between the levels. The animal access 17 may comprise a movable floor section or a ramp. At least an upper portion of the structure may be domed. The levels of the structure can have a circular footprint. The structure may have a core 12 which communicates with each of the levels of the structure. The arm may be configured to supply either food or water. The arm may comprise cleaning means for cleaning the floor. One or each level may have an arm (30 figure 4) which is movable across a surface of the floor. The arm may rotate about the core of the structure.
Patent GB-2540749-A (GB)
Title: A system for use in a vehicle
Inventor: EDWARD HOARE
IPC: B60W50/00
Filed: 2015-07-17
Abstract: The system is for use in a vehicle, where the vehicle includes at least one vehicle-mounted acoustic sensor operable in a proximity detection mode and terrain identification mode. In these modes sensor output data is sent to the relevant proximity or terrain identification subsystems. The system includes an input arranged to receive vehicle output data from at least one vehicle subsystem or sensor, a processor arranged to determine whether to operate the vehicle-mounted acoustic sensor in the proximity mode or in terrain identification mode dependent upon the received vehicle output data, and an output arranged to send a control signal to the at least one acoustic sensor. The system is operable to send a control signal from the output to instruct the at least one acoustic sensor to operate in the determined proximity detection mode and terrain identification mode. The proximity mode can be a parking assistance mode, and the terrain identification mode informs the user of the road terrain ahead and can also alter the setup of the car. The same sensor being used to different modes for separate roles allows for decrease in the total number of sensors needed for multiple functions, which reduces the weight, cost and complexity of the system.
Patent GB-2542123-A (GB)
Title: Transfer device
Inventor: Christopher Eccles
IPC: B65G53/46
Filed: 2015-09-08
Abstract: An assembly 10 having a passive beta port 12 and an active alpha port 14, the passive and the active are complementarily shaped such that they can engage with one another. The passive beta port 12 has an annular flange 16 defining an annular opening to which is releasably securable a passive port door 18. Disposed at the distal end of the passive 12, at the opposite end to the annular flange 16 is an annular clamp 22 having two handles 24. Disposed between the annular ring 16 and the annular clamp 22 is the gaiter 26 of the protective member 28. The protective member has a cylindrical body (30, Fig 2) forming a funnel through which material may pass. Afree end (32) is sized so as to be capable of passing through the port formed between the alpha and beta ports 12, 14.
Patent GB-2545238-A (GB)
Title: Drill
Inventor: MARKUS ROMPEL
IPC: B25F5/00
Filed: 2015-12-10
Abstract: The drill includes a motor 100 mounted in a housing 2, 4, having a drive spindle 16, an output spindle 60 driven by the drive spindle via a torque clutch which slips when the torque exceeds a predetermined value. The output spindle has an impact surface 136 and a central axis 102. A tangential impact mechanism is for superimposing impacts onto the output spindle, and includes a sleeve 74 mounted on the output spindle, rotationally driven by the drive spindle, and an anvil 116 rotatably mounted onto the output spindle and which is connected to the sleeve. The output spindle and the sleeve are rotationally driven by the drive spindle via a gear system 70, 78, 94. The drive spindle drives the sleeve via the gear system at the same rate and direction as the output spindle so that there is no relative rotation between the sleeve and output spindle when the torque clutch is not slipping and at a different rate and/or direction so that there is relative rotation between the sleeve and output spindle when the torque clutch is slipping. A predetermined value of the torque at which the torque clutch starts to slip can be adjusted.
Patent GB-2536542-A (GB)
Title: Haptic vehicle alert based on wearable device
Inventor: MARK A CUDDIHY
IPC: G08B6/00
Filed: 2016-01-15
Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a controller to output an alert to a wearable device 202 with a haptic alert mechanism upon detecting alert events indicative of lane departure, pedestrian detection, a distracted/drowsy driver or imminent collision. The alert event may be generated by a vehicle navigation system. The wearable device may be a smart watch or smart wristband, wirelessly connected to a vehicle control system via Bluetooth (RTM) or Wi-Fi (RTM) for example. The wearable device may detect physiological or biometric information such as pulse rate where the controller outputs an alert to the wearable device when the pulse rate is below a threshold limit and an alert event is detected. Additionally, the controller may output an alert to the wearable device when an alert event is detected when a vehicle is operating autonomously.
Patent GB-2536772-A (GB)
Title: Tape drive and method of operation
Inventor: PHILLIP LAKIN
IPC: B41J33/54
Filed: 2013-02-12
Abstract: A tape drive 11 and a method of operating a tape drive to reduce tension in the tape during a period of inactivity, when the drive is operational and the tape is stationary. The tape drive has a pair of spool supports 14 upon which a supply spool 17 and a take up spool 15 are mounted. Each support 14 is driven by a motor 16, 18, which are both controlled by a controller 24. The controller reduces the tension in the tape extending between the two spools during a pre-determined period of inactivity which is selected before the period of inactivity begins. Preferably, reducing the tension decreases the amount of energy required to operate the tape drive. The controller may control at least one of the motors to rotate by an amount required to reduce the tension.