baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2538686-A (GB)
Title: State estimation and run life prediction for pumping system
Inventor: DAVID MILTON ESLINGER
IPC: F04D13/10
Filed: 2015-03-31
Abstract: A technique facilitates formulation of predictions regarding the run life of a pumping system. Based on the predicted run life, and factors affecting that predicted run life, corrective actions may be selected and implemented. The corrective actions may involve adjustment of operational parameters regarding the pumping system so as to prolong the actual run life of the pumping system. The technique utilizes an algorithm which combines various models, e.g. physical models and degradation models, to provide various failure/run life predictions. The various models may utilize a variety of sensor data, such as actual sensor data and virtual sensor data, to both evaluate the state of the pumping system and the predicted run life of the pumping system.
Patent GB-2558314-A (GB)
Title: Improved attribute mapping to encode and decode 3D models
Inventor: GUILLAUME LAROCHE
IPC: G06T17/00
Filed: 2017-01-02
Abstract: The invention relates to encoding and decoding of property data, such as colour values, associated with vertices forming 3D models. A spiral-like scanning path of the vertices V1-V25 within the 3D mesh is obtained and attribute values such as colour values are mapped to pixels C1-C25 of a 2D image which is then encoded. To increase redundancies in the image, the spiral-like path is split into path segments, each possibly forming a turn in the spiral; each path segment is assigned to a respective column or line of the picture; and color values of each path segment are mapped, in the same order, to respective lines of the image. Successive lines in the 2D image thus contain the colour values of neighbouring vertices in the 3D object, and a better encoding can be achieved. Also claimed are three dimensional model or point cloud encoding or decoding in which attribute values are mapped from a scanning path in the model to an image in a raster scan order, in which the two dimensional image is encoded using screen content coding or in which a mapping of attribute values to the image depends on an encoding method used to encode the image.
Patent GB-2560180-A (GB)
Title: Food package
Inventor: SIMON VILLIS
IPC: B65D85/60
Filed: 2017-03-02
Abstract: A package comprising two flexible layers 12, 14 (fig. 1b) adjoined to provide a cavity between the layers, movable between a first, closed configuration in which the layers are sealed around their periphery, and a second, open configuration in which the layers extend to form a cone shape defining the cavity between, where the base of the cone shape provides the opening into the cavity. The package may comprise a front surface 12 and a rear surface 14 (fig. 1b) provided by flexible layers, with each layer comprising a top end 16 and a bottom 18 end with a first corner 20 at the top end and a diagonally opposed second corner 22 at an opposed bottom end, with an openable seam 24 between. The seam may be resealable and may extend along a peripheral portion. The flexible layers may comprise a third corner 26 forming the apex of a cone when the package is open. The openable seam may comprise three seams, a first 28 extending from the first corner and parallel to the bottom end of the package, a second 30 extending from the second corner perpendicularly to the bottom end and a third 32 extending between the first and second.
Patent GB-2562261-A (GB)
Title: Motor Rotor
Inventor: RICHARD LEE HARKIN
IPC: H02K21/14
Filed: 2017-05-10
Abstract: A motor rotor 10 comprising a magnet carrier 20; a magnet 40 carried by the magnet carrier; a sleeve 60 surrounding the magnet; and first and second circumferential seals 52 located to seal the magnet within a void between the carrier and the sleeve. The seals are located to hermetically seal the magnet at axial ends 30 of the magnet, wherein the magnet extends between the first and second seals. The magnet carrier and sleeve may extend axially beyond the first and second seals. The carrier may have an annular shoulder 27B positioned to locate the magnet at an axial position on the carrier, where the seal is located proximate to the shoulder. The shoulder may also have a circumferential recess 27C to receive the first seal and the carrier may also be dimensioned to receive the second seal. The seals may comprise of a potting compound or an O-ring, where the seals comprise a synthetic rubber and fluoro-polymer elastomer compound. The magnet may comprise a ring magnet that comprise a plurality of C-shaped magnet segments, where the magnet comprises a rare earth magnet, or one of a group comprising iron boron and samarium cobalt. The motor rotor may be used in a vacuum pump.
Patent GB-2566749-A (GB)
Title: An electrical connector for mains power supply
Inventor: EMIL AMINOLLAH BARUCH
IPC: H02H3/08
Filed: 2017-09-26
Abstract: A mains electrical connector (10, figures 2A, 2B) with a hollow housing including: a power supply port 12 on a front face (4); a socket power port 14 on a rear face (2) capable of receiving another similar connector; and an appliance power port 16, wherein the power supply port includes a live pin 13L and a neutral pin 13N electrically communicating with live and neutral lines through the connector to corresponding live 14L 16L and neutral terminals 14N 16N of the appliance power port and socket power port; and an overcurrent protection assembly 24 having an upstream terminal 26.1 electrically communicating with the live pin and a downstream terminal 26.3; and a switch 28 biased to electrically connect the downstream terminal to the live socket power port terminal and, when the connector is plugged into the socket power port of another similar connector, disconnect the live socket power terminal from the downstream terminal and connect it to the upstream terminal whereby the conductor fails safe. The switch may include an actuator (201) or proximity sensor responsive to the proximity of the similar connector.
Patent GB-2566968-A (GB)
Title: Pre-processing in wireless uplink transmissions
Inventor: OLIVIER MARCO
IPC: H04W28/06
Filed: 2017-09-28
Abstract: Discarding of PDUs at the RLC level in a wireless communication system, particularly in co-ordination with a switch of RLC link. Pre-processing of Uplink UL RLC (Radio Link Control) PDUs (Protocol Data Units) from PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) PDUs allows the formation of PDUs before a transmission opportunity is available. This may impede an RLC SDU (Service Data Unit) discard procedure as a number of RLC protocol issues may arise due to the missing RLC PDUs. To prevent this in a communication link operating in unacknowledged mode, upon receiving an instruction to discard at least one PDCP PDU, RLC PDUs are discarded providing the RLC PDU has not been submitted to a lower level. For a communication link operating in an acknowledged mode, RLC PDUs are discarded provided the RLC PDU has not been submitted to a lower layer and is the latest PDCP PDU in the transmission window. The discarding step may be repeated for the next latest PDCP PDU in the transmission window until no more RLC PDUs can be discarded. Particularly applicable for a 5G or NR (New Radio) system in situations where a first and second communication link is present,
Patent GB-2569120-A (GB)
Title: Thermal management method and apparatus
Inventor: LAURENT MARC PHILIPPE
IPC: F16L53/37
Filed: 2017-12-05
Abstract: A thermal management system (TMS) 2 is configured to heat a conduit 4 composed of metal. The TMS includes an electrical generator 16 for generating alternating current at a high frequency, and first and second electrical connectors 19, 20 for connecting the electrical generator to the conduit. In use, the electrical generator outputs alternating current at a high frequency to the first and second electrical connectors, the alternating currentbeing introduced into the conduit and causing direct heating of the conduit by the Joule effect. An exhaust system 1 comprises the previously described TMS. The generator can be re-configurable to output alternating current at different frequencies. The first and second electrical connectors can comprise a cable with multiple strands of individually insulated wire. The TMS can further comprise a fault detection module for identifying when the electrical resistance exceeds a predetermined threshold, or is outside a predetermined operating range.
Patent GB-2557068-A (GB)
Title: Downhole telemetry systems and methods
Inventor: DANIEL JOSHUA STARK
IPC: H04B10/25
Filed: 2015-09-15
Abstract: A downhole telemetry system comprises an optical fiber, a downhole signal generator, a downhole amplifier, and a first downhole laser. The downhole signal generator can be in optical communication with the optical fiber to generate a signal to be transmitted along the optical fiber. The downhole amplifier can be in optical communication with the optical fiber to receive the signal from the downhole signal generator. The first downhole laser can be in optical communication with the downhole amplifier to generate a first laser light output to power the downhole amplifier. Additional apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed.
Patent GB-2570904-A (GB)
Title: Slot mode antennas
Inventor: EERO VARJONEN
IPC: H01Q13/10
Filed: 2018-02-08
Abstract: An antenna assembly 100 or a wristwatch using such an assembly, comprises at least one circuit board 102, a conductive body 101 and at least one conductive rim structure 105 where the conductive rim 105 is located along at least part of the periphery of the at least one circuit board 102 and two connection points 106, 107 between the conductive body 101 and the conductive rim 105 defining the length of a slot antenna and where a slot antenna feed 108 from the circuit board 102 is suitable for coupling to the slot antenna between the said conductive connection points. The conductive body, which may be a bezel 101, and the circuit board 102 may be in parallel planes and a portion of the periphery of the circuit board 102 may include a grounded conductive layer 104. The connection points 106, 107 may interconnect the rim, grounded layer and body. An electromagnetic Faraday shield may be connected to part of the conductive rim 105 to define part of the slot antenna and arranged to shield circuitry. The bezel 101 may be a ring, ellipse, rectangle, square or any other polygon formation. Multiple connection points may be used to form multiple slot antennas which can operate at different frequencies. The antenna assembly 100 may be used for satellite communications.
Patent GB-2561980-A (GB)
Title: Diaphragm walls
Inventor: JOHN COUPLAND
IPC: E02D29/16
Filed: 2018-03-20
Abstract: Apparatus for a diaphragm wall having a guideway tube 32 of preferably circular cross section suitable for casting into a concrete panel (24, 26 Fig 1) along a height of a face of the concrete panel (24, 26 Fig 1). The guideway tube 32 has an elongate guideway track 50 that has an elongate side wall 33 and an elongate slot 44 along the side wall 33. The guideway tube 32 also has an elongate closure panel 70 that has a preferably curved rear panel portion 72 that closes the slot 44, enclosing an internal volume V1 in the guideway tube 32, and a front panel portion 74 having a width W2 greater than the width W1 of the slot 44. The guideway track 50 may also have elongate wings 60 that extend externally from the side wall 33 adjacent to free end faces of the slot 44 to from an extended slot 144. There is also disclosed a guideway track, a method of constructing a diaphragm wall, a kit involving the guideway tube 32 and a concrete wall.
Patent GB-2572345-A (GB)
Title: Health eyeglasses capable of producing negative ions
Inventor: ZHAN JUN ZHANG
IPC: G02C7/10
Filed: 2018-03-27
Abstract: Eyeglasses which are capable of producing negative ions, comprising a frame front (10, figure 1) a pair of lenses 11 mounted at the frame front, and a pair of temples (12, figure 1) pivotally connected to two opposite sides of the frame front. The frame front and the temples are made from a resin material added with an anion material. Each lens includes an optical substrate 110 made from a methacrylic polymer material and provided therein with an anion material. A front surface of the optical substrate is sequentially provided with a layer of UV coating 111, a layer of blue-light filter 112, and a layer of anti-fog coating 113. An anti-reflective coating 114 may also be used. The frame may be made with nanometer anion powder.
Patent GB-2572829-A (GB)
Title: An air conditioning unit
Inventor: YUNSHUI CHEN
IPC: F24F1/00
Filed: 2018-04-19
Abstract: An air conditioning unit comprises an evaporating section 100 having an evaporator 122 and an evaporating section fan 121, and a condensing section 200 having a condenser 231 and a condensing section fan 232. The evaporating section is formed separately from, and in use located on and vertically above, the condensing section. The condensing section may have a condensing first chamber 230 housing the condenser and the condensing section fan, a condensing second chamber 220 which connects with an evaporating first chamber 120 of the evaporating section and houses the evaporator and the evaporating section fan, and a condensing third chamber 250 connecting with the condensing first and second chambers respectively. The condensing third chamber comprises an outdoor air inlet and a communication valve 241 for controlling a connection state of the condensing first and second chambers. The condensing section may have first and second front panels 211a, 211b constituting front wall portions of the condensing second and third chambers respectively. The first front panel is detachable and located above the second front panel. The outdoor air inlet is opposite the second front panel and a compressor 244 is located in the condensing second chamber.
Patent GB-2567733-A (GB)
Title: Rotor of spinning reel for fishing and spinning reel for fishing with the rotor
Inventor: KEI SAITO
IPC: A01K89/01
Filed: 2018-08-23
Abstract: A rotor 3 of a spinning reel 100 with a cylindrical portion 11, mounted rotatably on a reel body 1, a first rotor arm 12, a first bail support 13, a first coupling member 14, and a first cover 15. The first coupling member 14 couples the first bail support 13 to the first rotor arm 12 and has an engaged portion. The first cover 15 covers at least partially the first rotor arm 12 and the first bail support 13 and has an engaging portion that comes into engagement with the engaged portion of the first coupling member 14. The coupling member may be a screw and the engaging portion [15c, fig 4] may be a protrusion that comes into engagement with a recess [14c, fig. 4] of the engaged portion.
Patent GB-2569034-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle body
Inventor: MARK ROBERT CARTWRIGHT
IPC: B62D33/04
Filed: 2018-10-30
Abstract: A vehicle body 1 has a goods storage space defined by two side walls, a first end 12, a second end 13, a roof 14 and a floor 15, and a lifting assembly located at the second end of the body. The lifting assembly has two substantially adjacent loading platforms 21, 22, each independently liftable from a first position generally level with floor 15 and a second position raised from the first position. A second loading platform 22 is between a first loading platform 21 and first end 12, and both platforms 21, 22 are inside body 1 and occupy a region extending within a distance of 0.3 times the length L of body 1 from second end 13, and preferably within a distance of 0.25L or 0.2L from second end 13. The vehicle typically provides an intermediate deck 17 bisecting the storage space, and first and second platforms 21, 22 may be level with the intermediate deck in the second position. A third platform 23 may also be provided above first platform 21.
Patent GB-2566641-A (GB)
Title: Well cementing with water-based liquid anti-shrinkage additives
Inventor: THOMAS SINGH SODHI
IPC: C09K8/48
Filed: 2016-09-12
Abstract: A method including introducing a well cementing composition into a wellbore, the cementing composition including a pumpable slurry of cement comprising a liquid anti-shrinkage additive including: an aqueous base fluid; a calcined magnesium oxide; and an anti-hydration agent; and allowing at least a portion of the cementing composition to harden. A liquid anti-shrinkage additive for cement including an aqueous base fluid, a calcined magnesium oxide, and an anti-hydration agent.
Patent GB-2567092-A (GB)
Title: Controlling uplink transmit power in a plurality of basestations
Inventor: GBENGA SALAMI
IPC: H04W72/04
Filed: 2013-02-18
Abstract: A plurality of basestations in a mobile communications network form a second layer within the network. The network has a further plurality of basestations forming a first layer. The plurality of second layer basestations are clustered according to association with the first layer basestations. Second layer basestation loading information is exchanged between second layer basestations belonging to the same cluster. The uplink resource allocation for individual second layer basestations is dynamically controlled based on the exchanged loading information. The dynamic control of the uplink resource allocation involves at least one of time and/or frequency scheduling such that concurrent use of the same frequency resource by more than one second layer basestation is reduced. The loading information may comprise radio resource use of the second layer basestation.
Patent GB-2574090-A (GB)
Title: Long-haul safety system trips
Inventor: GARY K LAW
IPC: G05B19/418
Filed: 2019-03-19
Abstract: To transmit safety messages between remotely located portions of a process plant via a low-bandwidth long-haul link, a safety data concentrator combines 314 individual safety messages generated 310 by the safety logic solvers disposed at one portion of the plant into a concentrated safety message and transmits 316 the concentrated safety message to a safety data de-concentrator in the remote portion of the plant. The safety data de-concentrator recovers 318 the individual safety messages from the concentrated safety message and communicates the recovered safety messages to recipient safety logic solvers in the remote portion of the plant 320.
Patent GB-2582346-A (GB)
Title: Estimating an amount of charge of a battery
Inventor: ANDRE FRANCOIS THUNOT
IPC: G01R31/387
Filed: 2019-03-20
Abstract: A method of estimating an amount of battery charge comprising calculating a current offset error associated with a difference between a predicted amount of charge of the battery and an observed amount of charge of the battery S9d, the estimated current offset error indicating a measured current error; estimating the amount of charge of the battery using the estimated current offset error S9g. A second method comprising using a current offset error associated with errors manifesting in electronic device current measurements to estimate an amount of charge of a battery in the electronic device S9g. A third method performed by a processor comprised in an electronic device including a battery, comprising during a first recalibration phase, estimating a current offset error based on a static maximum capacity of the battery S9f; setting the estimated current offset error as a static current offset error; during a second recalibration phase, estimating a maximum capacity of the battery based on the static current offset error S9g. A computer program comprising instructions which cause performance of any of said methods for determining the state of charge (SoC) of a battery.
Patent GB-2574130-A (GB)
Title: Surface-mounted electronic apparatus
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER COOK
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 2019-06-20
Abstract: A support apparatus for a device has a housing having a mounting portion and a support portion. The mounting portion is configured to be received between the faceplate of a plug socket 58 and an associated wall (52, Fig 2). The support portion is connected to the mounting portion such that it covers the plug socket in use, and may be configured to support a device in an upright position. The device may be a charger 64 for a mobile phone 10, or a speaker (390, Fig 11). The device may charge a phone inductively, or a tablet using a plug (300, Fig 8) on a retractable cable (296, Fig 9).
Patent GB-2588175-A (GB)
Title: Fault detection response in a robot arm
Inventor: PAUL ROBERTS
IPC: H02P3/20
Filed: 2019-10-11
Abstract: A robot arm (202 fig. 1) for a robot (200 fig. 1) such as a surgical robot comprises a joint (205 fig. 1) permitting a second link (204 fig. 1) to move relative to a first link (204 fig. 1), a motor (208 fig. 1) for driving the joint (205 fig. 1) and a controller (209 fig. 1) for the motor (208 fig. 1) configured to electrically brake the motor (208 fig. 1) in response to detection of a fault in the robot arm (202 fig. 1) by applying a braking current to the motor (208 fig. 1) so as to maintain the position of the joint (205 fig. 1) against gravity. The motor (208 fig. 1) may be a multiple-phase motor and in response to detection of the fault the controller (209 fig. 1) may apply a braking current to all phases 301, 303, 305 of the motor (208 fig. 1) or between a first pair of phases of the motor (208 fig. 1) only. When the fault is a loss of power the braking current may be connected from a primary power supply external to the robot arm (202 fig. 1) or from a back-up power supply external to the robot arm (202 fig. 1). A fault may be indicated when a current limit is exceeded between a load switch 307, 308, 309 and a motor drive circuit 310, 311, 312 or if a Pulse Width Modulation signal is not generated in a motor drive circuit 310, 311, 312.
Patent GB-2581088-A (GB)
Title: Downhole device with signal transmitter
Inventor: ERLING KLEPPA
IPC: G01V11/00
Filed: 2018-10-09
Abstract: A downhole device (8; 9) for installation in a petroleum well (1), comprising a sensor (11), a controller (12) and a power source (15). The device (8; 9) further comprises an acoustic speaker(13) configured tooutputa sound signal from the downhole device (8; 9) to a fiber optic cable(7; 14) in the well.
Patent GB-2585755-A (GB)
Title: Multi-viewport transformation module for use in 3D rendering system
Inventor: JAIRAJ DAVE
IPC: G06T17/20
Filed: 2017-06-30
Abstract: A viewport transformation, which transforms vertices from a world window (i.e. world space coordinates) to a viewport (i.e. screen space coordinates) (see fig. 1A), is performed (608) in a 3D graphics system on untransformed coordinate data (602) for a vertex in a strip for each of a plurality of viewports to generate transformed coordinate data for each viewport. The viewports comprise a viewport associated with the vertex (604) and a viewport associated with (at least one) other vertex in the strip (606), the other vertex based on a provoking vertex of a primitive (e.g. triangle formed by a leading, middle and trailing vertex) to be formed by the vertices in the strip and several vertices in the primitive. The provoking vertex can be considered the definitive (master) vertex - the vertex which dictates the viewpoint transformation for that primitive. The transformed coordinate data is then written (610) to a vertex buffer, which involves storing the data in an order that corresponds to an order of the vertices in the strip associated with the plurality of viewports.