baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2571280-A (GB)
Title: Method of manufacture
Inventor: YOGIRAJ PARDHI
IPC: C22F1/10
Filed: 2018-02-22
Abstract: Method for providing a precipitation strengthened alloy with a solution treatment step at a temperature between the gamma’ solvus and solidus temperature for the alloy. The solution treatment occurs where the solution treatment is carried out at elevated pressure, or for a predetermine time period, at less than 150 ºC below the solidus temperature, or where the first cooling step cools the article at up to 20ºC per minute to an aging temperature or ambient temperature, or where the first cooling step cools the article to an aging temperature and the solution treatment and/or cooling is carried out at elevated pressure. Preferably hot isostatic pressing is used conventionally before the solution treatment. Preferably the article is manufactured by additive layer manufacturing. Preferably the article is a Nickel alloy with c. 20% Chromium. Preferably the article is for a gas turbine engine. A second cooling rate may be faster than the first. The microstructure has a coarser secondary γ’ (fig 3) such that a material of known properties which won’t lose performance further can be put into service. Serrated grain boundaries may improve resistance to crack growth.
Patent GB-2565615-A (GB)
Title: Agent for decolorizing dyed keratinous fibers
Inventor: Juergen Schoepgens
IPC: A61Q5/10
Filed: 2018-03-15
Abstract: An agent for the reductive decolourization of dyed keratinous fibres, preferably hair, comprises, in a cosmetic carrier (a) formamidine sulfinic acid and/or salts thereof, and (b) at least one compound of formula (I), where R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, a carboxy group (-COOH) or salt thereof, a C1-C6alkyl group, a hydroxy C1-6alkyl group, or a C1-C6alkoxy-carbonyl group, X is a bivalent organic radical of formula (II) or a direct bond, where R3 is a hydroxy group, hydrogen, a carboxy group (-COOH) or salt thereof, a C1-C6alkoxy-carbonyl group, a C1-C6alkyl group, or an amino group, and n is an integer from about 1 to about 4. Preferably the compound of formula (I) is (2R,3R)-1,4-dimercapto-2,3-butanediol. Preferably the agent has a pH value in the range of from about 7.5 to about 12.5. A multi-component package unit (kit-pf-parts) for reductive decolourizing of keratinous fibres comprises, separately packaged: a first container (1) comprising cosmetic agent (1), and a second container (2) comprising a cosmetic agent (2); wherein agent (1) in container (1) comprises (a) formamidine sulfinic acid and/or salts thereof, and (b) at least one compound of formula (I); and agent (2) in container (2) comprises (c) one or multiple alkalizing agents.
Patent GB-2572559-A (GB)
Title: Pressure vessel
Inventor: MATTHEW WILLIAM LEWIS ROBERTS
IPC: F17C13/08
Filed: 2018-04-03
Abstract: A pressure vessel (1000, figure 1) comprises at least one rectangular folded sheet 100, with lateral folded sides 101, 102, which are joined to a lateral side of an adjacent sheet to form a hollow hexagonal form, with portions 104 of the sheets adjacent to at least one of the hollow ends folded inwards for sealing. In some embodiments, there may be two or three sides to each sheet, or there may be only one sheet with seven sides, where the two lateral sides overlap one another. In some embodiments a second hexagonal hollow form may lie coaxial within the first hollow form. In some embodiments there are endcaps (600, 700, figure 1) overlapping the folded portions. Also disclosed is a pressure tank (3000, figure 4) formed of multiple folded sheets 100, each sheet having two lateral sides 101, 102, where at least one of the sheets is folded so that it faces concave outwards.
Patent GB-2573137-A (GB)
Title: CMC aerofoil
Inventor: STEVEN HILLIER
IPC: B32B3/04
Filed: 2018-04-25
Abstract: An aerofoil (300) comprising first and second tubular CMC cores (302, 303) extending along a longitudinal axis of the aerofoil and an outer CMC layer (304) surrounding the cores and defining the outer aerofoil shape having leading and trailing (305) edges, wherein the fibres within the wall of the second CMC core extend to the trailing edge of the aerofoil. The aerofoil may comprise a plurality ofcooling passages connecting the inner volume of the second core with an external surface of the aerofoil. The passages may be defined by corrugations of the second tubular core. The aerofoil may comprise an insert between the adjacent facing portions of the inner surface of the second core, the air passages may be defined by passages therein. The insert may comprise ceramic foam which may be opened celled. Also included is a method of manufacturing such an aerofoil comprising forming the CMC cores, forming an outer CMC layer around the cores with fibres from the second core reaching the trailing edge of the formation thus formed before consolidating the layers to form the aerofoil.
Patent GB-2565224-A (GB)
Title: Firewall for encrypted traffic in a process control system
Inventor: GARY K LAW
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2018-06-26
Abstract: A method for decreasing the risk of unauthorized access to an embedded node in a secure subsystem of a process control system includes receiving a message comprising a message header and a message payload, and determining that the message is an unlock message configured to access one or more protected functions of the embedded node, at least by analyzing a bit sequence of one or more bits in the message header 132. The method also includes determining whether a manual control mechanism (intrusion protection device IPD) 134 has been placed in a particular state by a human operator, and, based upon those determinations, either causing or not causing the embedded node to enter an unlocked state in which one or more of the protected functions are accessible. The IPD may be a manually operated button or switch.
Patent GB-2577098-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for detecting level of urine
Inventor: MARTIN GOSSLING
IPC: G01F23/292
Filed: 2018-09-13
Abstract: An apparatus configured to couple to a bag 300 for receiving urine, the apparatus comprising an array of emitters 103 in communication with a corresponding array of detectors 105, with the array of emitters arranged to face the array of detectors on opposing sides of the bag in use. Each emitter is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation, preferably light in the infrared or red portion of the spectrum, through the bag towards a corresponding detector, with a controller 101 configured to determine the fill level of the bag based on the received level of electromagnetic radiation from the array of detectors. The apparatus preferably comprises a pair of elongate arms 15 extending parallel to each other, with the array of detectors equally spaced along the length of one of the arms and the array of emitters equally spaced along the length of the other. The arms may be coupled at their distal end by a head portion in which the controller is located. The controller may also be configured to determine the degree of hydration of a patient based on the level of radiation passing through the urine in the bag.
Patent GB-2568393-A (GB)
Title: Focusing position adjustment device, focusing position adjustment system, program and focusing position adjustment method
Inventor: MASAHIRO INOUE
IPC: H04N9/04
Filed: 2017-06-27
Abstract: A focusing adjustment unit changes the relative positions of an optical system and an element of a camera the imaging direction of which faces a predetermined imaging target position from a first side of the imaging direction to a second side of the imaging direction. Every time the focusing adjustment unit changes the relative positions of the optical system and the element, an evaluation unit calculates, regarding an adjustment range that is a range in which an adjustment member provided at the imaging target position and having a pattern comprising a plurality of colors appears within an image captured by the camera, an evaluation value that increases monotonously with respect to the standard deviation of the density of pixels included in the adjustment range. A focusing position determination unit determines a focusing position of the camera on the basis of the change of the evaluation value calculated by the evaluation unit.
Patent GB-2582893-A (GB)
Title: Positioning reference signal
Inventor: Yinan Qi
IPC: H04W64/00
Filed: 2019-02-15
Abstract: In a wireless communication system, position reference signals (PRS) are mapped to the bandwidth parts (BWP) of one or more user equipments (UE). Where bandwidth parts for two UEs fully overlap, the PRS may be mapped across the larger or the smaller bandwidth part. Where the bandwidth parts do not overlap, the PRS patterns and densities may be configured independently or jointly. Where there is a partial overlap, the PRS may be mapped in a joint configuration with a uniform pattern across the overall band. Alternatively, separate configurations may be used, and where collisions occur, an offset or puncturing may be applied. In a second embodiment, the PRS is mapped to predefined positions which may be within or near the central region of the system bandwidth. The configuration may be switched based on a UE capability report, indicating whether the UE can operate with the full system bandwidth. In a third embodiment, the PRS is mapped around the synchronisation signal block (SSB). The communication system may be a fifth generation (5G) New Radio (NR) network.
Patent GB-2582135-A (GB)
Title: Mass spectrometry apparatus
Inventor: ANDREW BOWDLER
IPC: H01J49/04
Filed: 2019-03-11
Abstract: A mass spectrometer is configured to perform mass spectrometric analysis of a sample only when the sample is located on a sample plate that is held in an engaged position by a sample plate holder 42. The mass spectrometer includes one or more engagement features 43 configured to engage with corresponding features on a sample plate so as to prevent the sample plate from being held in the engaged position by the sample plate holder unless the sample plate is limited to use in a specific analytical technique or a range of analytical techniques to be performed using the mass spectrometer. Alternatively, the engagement features may be used to ‘lock-down’ the mass spectrometer for other purposes, such as for use only with proprietary sample plates made by a particular manufacturer. The engagement features may, for example, comprise slots and matching projections 43, slots (71, Fig 7b) and corresponding pegs, dowels or ridges (73), or grooves (101, Fig 10a) and matching blades (103, Fig. 10b).
Patent GB-2583909-A (GB)
Title: A connector assembly
Inventor: SEAN PHILLIPS
IPC: F16B12/32
Filed: 2019-05-01
Abstract: A connector assembly for connecting objects to one another, such as in self-assembly furniture comprises a male connector 10 comprising an elongate body having a base portion and an enlarged head portion, the head portion being wider than the base portion, and a substantially U shaped receiving slot adapted to receive the male connector, a receiving portion 32 of said receiving slot having a narrowed neck region defined by opposing inwardly facing shoulders. The enlarged head portion of the male connector 10 is adapted to engage the opposing shoulders of the receiving slot when the male connector is inserted into the receiving slot and displaced laterally into said receiving portion 32 of the receiving slot to retain the male connector 10 in engagement with the receiving slot. The depth of the head portion of the male connector 10 increases away from a leading end of the male connector 10 such that the increasing depth of the enlarged head portion of the male connector 10 away from the leading end causes the head portion to engage the shoulders of the receiving portion 32 of the receiving slot with a wedge effect as the male connector 10 is slid laterally into the receiving portion 32 of the receiving slot, thereby biasing the male connector 32 towards a base of the receiving slot.
Patent GB-2570250-A (GB)
Title: Method for archiving a microbiome
Inventor: REBECCA ANN VONGSA
IPC: G01N33/50
Filed: 2017-10-25
Abstract: Methods for archiving and reconstituting a microbiome are disclosed. A method for archiving a microbiome can include collecting a sample including a microbial community defining the microbiome. The method can also include expanding the microbial community in the sample and preserving the sample to provide a preserved sample. Packaging the preserved sample to archive the microbiome can also form part of the method of archiving the microbiome.
Patent GB-2583963-A (GB)
Title: Rear suspension system for a vehicle
Inventor: MATT NUTTING
IPC: B60G21/05
Filed: 2019-05-16
Abstract: A rear suspension system (101, Fig. 4) for a vehicle, including a twist beam axle assembly and two bump stops 137. The assembly includes a twist beam axle 105 and two wheel hubs 115a, 115b. The bump stops 137 limit pivoting movement of the axle assembly relative to the vehicle body; and compress when the assembly moves towards an underside of the vehicle body. Each bump stop 137 has a body 139 with a central longitudinal axis Z-Z, with the axes Z-Z of the respective bump stop bodies 139 being inclined in respective directions with respect to the twist beam axle 105. When each bump stop 139 is compressed, a component of force is transmitted along the twist beam axle 105. The invention includes a vehicle with a body and a suspension system 101. The system may include two dampers 119a, 119b that each compress a bump stop 137.
Patent GB-2572871-A (GB)
Title: Climate controlled container for vehicle
Inventor: BRUCE W WILKINSON
IPC: F25B21/00
Filed: 2017-11-16
Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein useful to maintaining a condition of a removable container. In some embodiments, a system for receiving one or more products comprises a personal vehicle, the personal vehicle including a power source and a removable container, the removable container configured to house the one or more products, the removable container comprising a condition control device, wherein the condition control device is coupled to the power source, and a control circuit, the control circuit configured to receive, from a remote device, an indication of a condition for the removable container and cause the condition control device to maintain the removable container with respect to the condition.
Patent GB-2584315-A (GB)
Title: Control system and method
Inventor: HENRY HYDE-THOMSON
IPC: H04N19/00
Filed: 2019-05-30
Abstract: A control system for displaying images from first and second cameras. The system has one or more controllers and receives first and second data streams comprising image data from each of the cameras 110, which are processed into first and second analytics image data respectively 135. First or second image data is displayed 165 following a selection of the associated image 140. When the control system determines a change in which image is selected 175, analytics image data of the selected image is output 160, before the associated viewer image data. The use of analytics image data may depend on whether a reference frame is available for the chosen image 145. The system may analyse the analytics data to identify an object/person of interest and may be used for surveillance. The system may augment composite image data with analytic data, and the analytics image data may comprise decoded image date.
Patent GB-2588384-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to reactor fluid supply systems
Inventor: MARVINE BESONG
IPC: F23G5/027
Filed: 2019-10-16
Abstract: A reactor fluid supply system, a reactor system comprising such a fluid supply system, a method of supplying fluid into a reactor, and a method of operating a reactor system are provided. Preferably, the reactor system comprises a fluidised bed pyrolysis or combustion reactor and a fluid injector. The injector may comprise an internal flow passage extending from an inlet to an outlet, and have a first section including the inlet and a first portion of the passage and a second section including the outlet and a second portion of the passage. There may be a temperature regulator for controlling fluid temperature in the second section of the injector, the regulator comprising a cooling fluid jacket surrounding the second portion of the internal flow passage. The second section of the injector may be located inside the reactor so that the outlet of the injector is positioned in the fluidised bed of the reactor.
Patent GB-2588235-A (GB)
Title: Joint sensing
Inventor: NICHOLAS HENRY REDDALL
IPC: A61B5/11
Filed: 2019-10-18
Abstract: Method of calibrating a pair of body mounted sensors (10 figure 3) mounted either side of a joint (9 figure 3), the method comprising: determining a first offset between a measured joint angle and the angle between the sensors (figure 6) with the joint in a baseline position 51 to calibrate the sensors; and after at least one of the sensors has been removed and reapplied 53, repeating the calibration process 55 with the joint in the same baseline position 54 such that the sensors report the same joint angle before and after removal and reapplication. A system is also claimed, comprising a pair of sensors, each including a data transmission device A single data storage device receives data from the sensors, and a control system is configured to recognise when one or more sensor has been removed from the joint and to require recalibration before recording data. A third independent claim to a system for mounting removable sensors on an animal body is also claimed (figure 4).
Patent GB-2592030-A (GB)
Title: Multiple stage vacuum pump
Inventor: ALAN ERNEST KINNAIRD HOLBROOK
IPC: F04C25/02
Filed: 2020-02-12
Abstract: A multi-stage vacuum pump comprises a stator defining multiple pumping chambers. The stator comprises a plurality of transfer channels providing a fluid passage from an outlet port of one pumping chamber to an inlet port 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 of a subsequent pumping chamber. At least one of the transfer channels comprises two side channel sections 12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 26, 28 on opposing sides of the stator. At least one of the transfer channels comprises a single side channel section 30 on one side of the stator. The vacuum pump further comprises a gas ballast inlet channel 70 arranged on the other side of the stator from the side of the stator comprising the single side channel section. At least some of the transfer channel sections between chambers closer to the pump inlet have a larger cross-section than that of transfer channel sections between chambers closer to the pump outlet. The single side channel section may though have a larger cross -section than that of an adjacent upstream channel section.
Patent GB-2580234-A (GB)
Title: Applying triaxial stresses to a core sample during perforation and flow testing
Inventor: JOHN DOUGLAS MANNING
IPC: G01N3/12
Filed: 2017-10-04
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for applying triaxial stresses to a core sample during perforation and flow testing. A core sample of rock is positioned within a fixture shell of an overburden stress apparatus, which is placed within a pressure vessel. The pressure vessel applies a vessel pressure to the overburden stress apparatus. The overburden stress apparatus contains a plurality of stress members which apply overburden stresses to the core sample along its three principal axes. The applied overburden stresses are resisted by a combination of the structural integrity of the overburden stress apparatus and the circumferential support applied to the overburden stress apparatus by the vessel pressure. With the overburden stresses applied, the core sample can undergo perforation testing, production testing, and injection testing.
Patent GB-2583574-A (GB)
Title: Handling exceptions in a multi-tile processing arrangement
Inventor: Alan Graham Alexander
IPC: G06F15/177
Filed: 2018-12-21
Abstract: A multi-tile processing system having an interconnect wherein tiles participate in a bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) scheme wherein a debug tool accesses an exception raised by one of the tiles. In BSP each of the tiles in a group perform an on-tile compute phase followed by an inter-tile exchange phase with the exchange phase being held back until all tiles have completed the compute phase. A debug tool (1120) accesses an exception raised signal (1114) of one of the tiles (4) to ascertain a cause of the exception raised by the tile, performs a debug operation to resolve the exception, and deasserts the exception. The tiles which are not in an excepted state continue to perform their on-tile compute phase, but do not commence their inter-tile exchange phase while one or more other tile is in an excepted state. After the excepted state has been resolved, the tile that issued the exception raised signal continues with its compute phase until it reaches a synchronisation point at which it issues a synchronisation request.
Patent GB-2593478-A (GB)
Title: Bracketing fluidic sample using strong solvent
Inventor: STEPHEN BUCKENMAIER
IPC: G01N30/34
Filed: 2020-03-24
Abstract: A sample separation device (e.g. for high performance liquid chromatography, HPLC) comprising a control unit (70, figure 1) configured for bracketing or stacking a fluidic sample 120 between two mobile phase portions 122,124. The fluidic sample may be bracketed between two mobile phases wherein at least one of the mobile phases is directly next to the fluidic sample and has a higher solvent strength compared to a solvent of the fluidic sample. There may be further mobile phase portions of lower solvent strength 126 compared to the fluidic sample and these may be placed directly following the mobile phase portion following the fluidic sample. A further sample separation unit may be present for further separating the fluidic sample after separation by the sample separation unit (e.g. for two-dimensional chromatography).
Patent GB-2585456-A (GB)
Title: Piling gate for automating pile installation
Inventor: DAVID MAGEE
IPC: E02D13/04
Filed: 2020-04-24
Abstract: A pile gate apparatus to facilitate automated pile installation has a frame, guiding inserts 160, electronic sensors 190 for detecting the position and/or orientation of the frame and a control means 180a, 180b for adjusting the frame in response to the detected position and/or orientation. The pile gate apparatus also has attachment means 170 for attachment to heavy equipment apparatus. The control means may be hydraulic, and may control the frame’s pitch and yaw. The frame may be hinged 140 to allow the frame to open and close. A heavy equipment apparatus configured for attachment to and operating of the piling gate and a method of operating the piling gate are also provided.
Patent GB-2593782-A (GB)
Title: Non-contacting seal including an interference fit seal ring
Inventor: Robert F Mcmanus
IPC: F16J15/36
Filed: 2020-04-27
Abstract: A seal assembly for use with a rotating machine that includes a rotating shaft includes a mating ring (16, fig 1) having a seal face (17, fig 1), and a seal ring 14 having an axially extending annular surface (53, fig 4) and a radially extending seal face 15. A bellows 18 urges the seal ring toward the mating ring. At least one of the mating and seal ring seal faces includes one or more surface features (202, fig 2a), such as grooves, that cause a gas to be drawn between the mating ring and the seal ring due to relative rotation and form a gas layer that urges the seal ring away from the mating ring. An annular seal ring shell 62 with a foot portion 30 is in an interference fit with the annular surface of the seal ring that keeps the faces flat during operation, the foot portion having an axial length greater than an axial length of a radially extending shin portion 48 connected to the foot portion. A dual pressurised non-contacting seal assembly also includes an atmosphere side non-contacting seal (802, fig 8).