baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2493824-A (GB)
Title: Fibre Web Support and Guide capable of Directing Airflow within the carding machine
Inventor: LEINDERS CHRISTOPH
IPC: D01G15/46
Filed: 2012-07-30
Abstract: In a device on a carding machine arranged between a doffer 5 and two nip rolls 7, 8, there is provided below the stripper roll 6 a stationary element 17 whose upper surface faces the stripper roll and the front surface faces the lower nip roll. The edge between the upper surface and the front surface is arranged in the region between the stripper roll and the nip rolls. This edge is oriented in the direction towards the nip between the nip rolls. A fibre web passes over the upper surface and then through an open space to the nip between the nip rolls. In order to provide a way of improving guidance of the fibre web, the region of the supporting and guiding element 17 that faces the lower nip roll 8 is constructed with a surface, which may be curved, facing towards the lower nip roller 8 so that the flow of air B is guided in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the lower nip roller, 8a. The gap between the supporting/guiding element and the lower nip roller may be adjustable to alter the airflow profile over the machine width.
Patent GB-2508668-A (GB)
Title: Adaptive cruise control (ACC) means for a host vehicle having regenerative and non-regenerative braking means
Inventor: DEXTREIT CLEMENT
IPC: B60L50/16
Filed: 2012-12-10
Abstract: An adaptive cruise control (ACC) means 110A for a host motor vehicle 100 having regenerative and non-regenerative braking means is provided. The ACC means 110A is operable to allow a user to command the ACC means to maintain the host vehicle 100 at a first distance d_driver behind a followed vehicle 100. The ACC means 110A in turn controls a powertrain of the host vehicle 100 to maintain the vehicle 100 at a target distance d_target behind the followed vehicle 100, the target distance d_target being greater than the first distance d_driver. The ACC means 110A is operable to employ the regenerative braking means and not the non-regenerative braking means to slow the host vehicle 100 when the host vehicle is greater than the first distance d_driver behind the followed vehicle 100.
Patent GB-2510861-A (GB)
Title: Interstitial plate circuitboard
Inventor: WILLIAMSON BARRY
IPC: H04Q1/02
Filed: 2013-02-15
Abstract: An telephone socket interstitial plate (or face plate adaptor) circuit board (150) configured for connection to an NTE5 telephone socket, comprising: a pair of input tracks (156) connected to the interstitial plate circuit board by input solder pads (160), the opposing ends of which are configured to connect to the telephone socket; a telephony port located on the interstitial plate circuit board proximal to the input solder pads and configured to receive a telephone connector; and a plurality of output tracks (162) connected between the telephony port and a plurality of output solder pads (164) on the interstitial plate circuit board; wherein the output solder pads are spaced apart from the input solder pads by a predetermined spacing so as to avoid interference between them.
Patent GB-2512658-A (GB)
Title: Transmitting and receiving a composite image
Inventor: MRAK MARTA
IPC: H04N5/272
Filed: 2013-04-05
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of transmitting and of decoding a composite image that comprises at least a foreground image and a transparency mask. When transmitting an image a video encoder encodes the foreground image and the transparency mask and transmits these encoded images together with a flag signifying whether or not the encoded transparency mask is to be decoded as a binary transparency mask in which each pixel can take only two values. On the decoder side on receipt of the encoded foreground image, encoded transparency mask and flag, the decoded will decode the foreground image and, where indicated by the flag, decode the transparency mask as a binary transparency mask. Clipping values may be signalled to the decoder for use in clipping of a decoded binary transparency mask. Also disclosed is a system for transmitting and receiving a video sequence using the above method. The method may be used in systems in which the images are encoded according to the H.264/AVC or High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standards and the flag may be represented in the syntax header element Sequence Parameter Set (SPS) of these standards.
Patent GB-2513178-A (GB)
Title: Gokhman tidal power plant for lagoon
Inventor: GOKHMAN ALEXANDER
IPC: F03B13/26
Filed: 2013-04-19
Abstract: A tidal power plant for a lagoon 3 has a head reservoir 1 located on the lagoon shore 2, and a power house 7 separately located on the lagoon bed. At high tide, water from the lagoon 3 is admitted into the reservoir 1 via vertical sluices in a flow distributer 5 and an open channel 4. Energy is then generated as water from the reservoir 1 flows out into the lagoon 3 via power house 7. There may be a tail reservoir 8 around the powerhouse 7 outlet, with vertical sluices that release the collected water at low tide. This can allow the turbines to operate at a higher head, and continue generating at high tide. The reservoir may be constructed of several interconnected parts, some of which may be located on the lagoon bed along the lagoon shore edge.
Patent GB-2514339-A (GB)
Title: Bottle top closure
Inventor: PARTON BENJAMIN NICHOLAS
IPC: B65D51/18
Filed: 2013-05-19
Abstract: A closure for a vessel 103 designed to hold fizzy or gaseous liquid. The closure comprises of two parts, an inner portion 101 and an outer portion 102 which is moved between two different positions by a defined level of pressure in the vessel. The first position (Figure 2) is where the vessel can be opened as normal by a turning action and the second position (Figure 3) is where the outer portion of the closure is able to turn freely without opening the vessel. An element 9, such as a diaphragm, is configured to react to the pressure within the vessel and so move the outer portion between these two positions. Pressing down on the outer portion may reengage it with the inner portion via a series of opposing protrusions. The element may have means for indicating when the pressure within the vessel is fine to open the closure.
Patent GB-2515036-A (GB)
Title: Security device
Inventor: NAPTHINE RUSSELL
IPC: G08B13/24
Filed: 2013-06-11
Abstract: A security device 1 comprises: a housing 2; a cable 6 extending from the housing for placement around an object; a spool (8,fig.2) rotatably mounted on the housing 2, the cable 6 being attached to the spool such that rotation of the spool in a first direction causes the cable to unwind from the spool permitting placement of the cable around said object, and rotation of the spool in a second, opposite direction causes tightening of the cable around the object; a latch (38,fig.2) movable between a first position in which the spool is able to rotate freely in both the first and second directions, and a second position in which the spool is able to rotate in the first direction only; and retracting means (30,fig.2) arranged to apply a biasing force to the spool to urge it to rotate in said second direction when the latch is in the first position. The security device may include an alarm means such as an EAS tag whereby an alarm may be triggered if the cable 6 is cut. The retracting means may comprise a flat section torsion or coil spring. The latch may comprise a ratchet mechanism.
Patent GB-2519060-A (GB)
Title: Cooling of axial flux motors - centrifugal
Inventor: WOOLMER TIM
IPC: H02K21/24
Filed: 2013-08-08
Abstract: An axial flux motor comprises a rotor 20 having radially extending and axially extending portion 20r,20c, a stator 22 having an inner aperture 30 carrying a bearing member 32 supporting portion 20c and a front wall axially spaced from the rotor side 22a by a gap G. A casing 40 has an axially and circumferentially extending outer portion 48 surrounding said rotor 20 and a cover plate 42 confronts the said second side 20b of said rotor 20 to form with the stator wall a containment chamber 26. A coolant liquid sump (50 fig1) is present in the lower part of the chamber the rotor centrifuging liquid from the sump onto the radially outer surface of the chamber. One or more flow diverters 60 and a flow splitter 70 are formed on the inner surface 43 of casing 40, e.g. at a top portion thereof, to direct liquid towards said side surfaces of the chamber, liquid returning to the sump via the bearing assembly, heat being transferred to from the rotor to the chamber walls for removal. Returning liquid may cool/lubricate the bearing via passages 102/flow director (110 Fig10). Flow interrupters (80 Fig1) may span the surface 48.
Patent GB-2517214-A (GB)
Title: Lighting control module
Inventor: MANS PAUL
IPC: H05B37/02
Filed: 2013-08-16
Abstract: A lighting control module 1 comprises a housing 5, input ports for electrical connection to an electrical supply and output ports 2 for connection to a luminaire or other controlled device. The lighting control module comprises control circuitry for controlling the electrical supply between the input ports and the output ports and further comprises an expansion port 8 for an expansion module (10, figure 4) comprising at least one further output port. The expansion port comprises at least one electrical connector 13 for connection to the expansion module. The housing comprises a removable cover 11 for the expansion port. In the absence of an expansion module, the housing and the removable cover completely enclose the electrical connectors and the removable cover is mounted to the housing by fixings 12 which can only be released with a tool such as a screwdriver. The lighting control module has the advantage that the expansion module can be connected by simple electrical connections which saves both space and cost.
Patent GB-2522640-A (GB)
Title: Synthetic method
Inventor: JULIS JENNIFER
IPC: C07C69/92
Filed: 2014-01-30
Abstract: A method of alkene metathesis comprising the reaction of at least one monoalkene with ethene in the presence of a diene. The invention also relates to the use of a diene to promote an ethenolysis reaction conducted on a monoalkene. The metathesis catalyst is preferably an alkylidene ruthenium catalyst such as the benzylidene and indenylidene catalysts shown in a). Preferred ethenolysis reactions include those on cashew nut shell liquid comprising the ethenolysis of cardanol to prepare 3-nonen-8-ylphenol and 1-octene. The ethenolysis of methylated anacardic acid (14) to form methyl-2-methoxy-6-(non-8-en-1-yl)benzoate (15) is also disclosed. Hydrogenation of 3-non-8-enylphenol, ethoxylation of the resultant 3-nonylphenol to provide ethoxy-3-nonylphenol or oligoethoxy-3-nonylphenol (as defined herein) is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2508313-A (GB)
Title: Rotatable plate and post for alignment of railway signals
Inventor: BARRY WRIGHT THOMAS
IPC: B61L5/18
Filed: 2010-03-15
Abstract: A railway signal 50 is aligned (e.g. rotated or levelled) relative to a base portion of its support by means located between the signalling unit and base. The signal may include a signalling unit 52 mounted on a support comprising a post 60 and a base portion 62 and include an enclosure 66 for signal controls attached to the base. The signalling unit may be fixed relative to the post. The alignment means may be a rotatable plate (22, Fig.7a) attached to signal box (102, Fig.7a) and comprising arc-shaped apertures which engage with elogate bolts 70 in concrete foundations 72 and act as guide paths such that the plate, post and signal are constrained to turn in a limited range of orientations. Thus the signalling unit may be aligned so as to be visible from a train without moving the base portion.
Patent GB-2513020-A (GB)
Title: Collar
Inventor: HABESLAND GEIR
IPC: E21B17/10
Filed: 2012-09-13
Abstract: There is disclosed a tool for centering a casing or liner In a borehole. The tool Includes a tubular section Inserted In the casing/liner. A number of pressure cylinders (4) are mounted in the tubular section along the circumference. The pressure cylinders may be expanded by pressure from the Inside of the tubular section. In use, the casing/liner with the tubular section is run into the borehole with the pressure cylinders retracted. Thereafter, the pressure Inside the caslng/llner Is Increased pressing the pressure cylinders out and centering the casing/liner.
Patent GB-2526796-A (GB)
Title: Checking layout integrity
Inventor: RIVIER MICHEL
IPC: G06F17/50
Filed: 2014-06-02
Abstract: A method of checking layout integrity comprises the steps of receiving inputs defining a plurality of devices for a layout, generating a signature for each device in the layout, when created, from one or more parameters of the device, storing the generated signatures with the layout, receiving the stored layout and signatures, regenerating each signature for each device in the stored layout, and comparing each regenerated signature with the corresponding stored signature. The signature comprises the sum of coordinates, perimeter and area of the devices.
Patent GB-2529727-A (GB)
Title: Electronic smoking device
Inventor: REHDERS THORBEN
IPC: A24F40/42
Filed: 2014-11-04
Abstract: An electronic smoking device 1 includes a mouthpiece 2, a heating element 4 and a body portion 5 which contains a liquid reservoir 6. The heating element is adapted to vaporize liquid 7 supplied from the reservoir to generate an aerosol. A flow path 8 extends from the heating element to the mouthpiece and receives the generated aerosol. The smoking device also comprises a plurality of flavour carrying units 9, 10 which are permeable to the aerosol and which carry flavoured material 11, 12. The flavour carrying units are selectively and individually exposed to the flow path to create a flavoured aerosol which can be inhaled by a user. Preferably, each of the flavour carrying units is selectively rotatable or switchable into the flow path. The flavour carrying units may be formed as separate chambers 14 of a multiple chamber device 15. Alternatively, the flavour carrying units can be formed as separate divisions (16, Fig. 3) of at least one multiple division disc (17, Fig. 3).
Patent GB-2522523-A (GB)
Title: Closable air guiding device on a vehicle
Inventor: RITZ THOMAS
IPC: B60K11/08
Filed: 2014-11-27
Abstract: An air guiding device 5 for regulating an air flow flowing through at least one air opening in a front cowling 1 arranged on a vehicle. The at least one air inlet opening is arranged laterally in the front cowling 1 and, in a closed state (Figure 2), should be completely covered to the outside by the air guiding device. The air guiding device 5 comprises a retaining frame 9 and at least one slat 7 arranged movably in the retaining frame 9. The at least one slat 7 is mounted movably in the retaining frame 9 and the angle of incidence of said slat can be changed by a servo motor, which is connected to an adjusting mechanism, in such a manner that an air flow approaching the at least one air inlet opening is at least partially guided around the vehicle. The angle of incidence of the slat(s) 7 may be controlled by vehicle speed, coolant temperature in a radiator located behind the device and readjustment of the angle of the slat(s) 7 may only be possible after a period of time has elapsed.
Patent GB-2520472-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus, method and system for variable commission structure affiliate sales negotiation and tracking
Inventor: ROMNEY MILES
IPC: G06Q50/18
Filed: 2013-09-18
Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for variable commission structure affiliate sales negotiation and tracking. An apparatus is disclosed that includes a receiving module (120) that receives a plurality of sales terms upon which a vendor's product may be made available for resale, a connection module (140) that connects the vendor to one or more resellers based on the sales terms, and a negotiation module (160) that negotiates between the vendor and the resellers, the negotiation module (160) rejecting modified offers from resellers that have not met a performance threshold.
Patent GB-2531093-A (GB)
Title: Use of cannabidiol in the reduction of convulsive seizure frequency in treatment-resistant epilepsy
Inventor: GEOFFREY GUY
IPC: A61P25/08
Filed: 2015-04-17
Abstract: Cannabidiol (CBD) for use in the treatment of epilepsy where the epilepsy is a treatment-resistant epilepsy (TRE) and where the CBD is present in an amount that reduces total convulsive seizure frequency by greater than 50% with respect to seizure frequency achieved on concomitant anti-epileptic drugs (AED). The TRE may especially be Dravet syndrome, myoclonic absence seizures, or febrile infection related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES). CBD may be administered in combination with two or more concomitant AEDs, especially clobazam, levetiracetam, topiramate, stiripentol, phenobarbital, lacsamide, valproic acid, zonisamide, perampanel, and fosphenytoin. An especially preferred AED is clobazam (Onfi). Preferably the dose of CBD is from 5 mg/kg/day to 25 mg/kg/day.
Patent GB-2530833-A (GB)
Title: Optoelectronic switch
Inventor: RICKMAN ANDREW
IPC: H04Q11/00
Filed: 2015-04-21
Abstract: An optoelectronic switch comprising: N switch modules; and an optical full-mesh interconnect (C5); each switch module comprising: M client facing input ports, and M output facing ports; a pre-mesh Array Waveguide (AWG) (C4) having M inputs and N outputs, each of the N outputs connected to a respective input on the optical full-mesh interconnect (C5); a post-mesh AWG (C6) having N inputs and M outputs, each of the N inputs connected to a respective output of the optical full-mesh interconnect (C5) and each of the M outputs for communicating a signal to one or more of the M outputs (0P1, OP2, OPM) of the switch module; and a first array of Detector Remodulators (DRMs) (C3) located before the pre-mesh AWG, each DRM of the first array configured to receive a signal from an input of the switch module (IP1, IP2, IPM) and to regenerate and/or change the wavelength of the received signal to produce a DRM output, the DRM output forming an input at a respective port of the pre-mesh AWG.
Patent GB-2525994-A (GB)
Title: Antimicrobial ophthalmic contact lenses
Inventor: ZHU PETER
IPC: G02C7/04
Filed: 2013-12-20
Abstract: Antimicrobial ophthalmic devices such as contact lenses, ocular inserts, ocular bandages, and intraocular lenses comprise a hydrogel and an antimicrobially-effective amount of epsilon polylysine non-covalently attached to the hydrogel.
Patent GB-2543079-A (GB)
Title: A work bench and fixing
Inventor: JAMES GERARD MCCOY
IPC: B25H1/14
Filed: 2015-10-08
Abstract: A workbench may have removable worktops 40, 41 extending along at least part of an upper frame 20. The workbench may have bracing bars 10, which can act as a hinge to allow legs 30 two pivot to allow the workbench to fold and be carried, e.g. via a handle or crane points. Notches (21, 22, fig 7) in the frame may keep legs 30 in place. Worktops 40, 41 may be sacrificial wood. A mini-workbench may be made from bracing bars 10 and ends 90 (figures 25 to 27). Work benches or mini-workbenches may be joined together in a daisy-chain arrangement by using a beam 7 and clamps on the bracing bars 10 (figs 25-29).The workbench may have an electrical, lighting or vacuum system. The workbench may be formed from a kit of parts. A fixing (figs 17-20) may have a main body, backplate and a protruding front portion having a hole to secure an attachment. The backplate may have an upper bracing surface with secondary holes for removably attaching the fixing to another object.
Patent GB-2543308-A (GB)
Title: System of power generation
Inventor: ARNALDO GALBIATI
IPC: H02S10/10
Filed: 2015-10-14
Abstract: A power generation system 200 comprises a photovoltaic device 201 and a voltage source 202. The voltage source 202 is arranged to increase the bias voltage across the photovoltaic device 201, increasing the power output of the power generation system 200. The voltage source 202 may be a battery or capacitor and may be arranged to maintain the bias voltage at a level which maximizes the power of the power generation system, or may be arranged to reverse bias the photovoltaic device such that the width of the depletion region is increased. The power generation system may contain a second photovoltaic device or a power regulator to adjust the power output of the system by adjusting the voltage source. A diode may be arranged between the photovoltaic device 201 and the voltage source 202 to protect the voltage source from an overcurrent condition.
Patent GB-2530672-A (GB)
Title: Downhole fluid flow control system and method having autonomous closure
Inventor: VEIT JAN
IPC: E21B43/12
Filed: 2013-07-19
Abstract: A fluid flow control system includes a flow control assembly having a fluid flow path for a flowing fluid. First and second flow control components are disposed in parallel in the fluid flow path, the first having a positive flowrate response to decreasing fluid viscosity and the second having a negative flowrate response to decreasing fluid viscosity. A valve is disposed in the fluid flow path in downstream series with the first and second flow control components. The valve has first and second inlet paths for fluid from the first and second flow control components, respectively, such that decreasing the fluid viscosity of the flowing fluid increases a ratio of the flowrate through the first control component to the flowrate through the second flow control component and such that when the ratio reaches a predetermined level, the valve autonomously shifts from an open position to a closed position.
Patent GB-2550372-A (GB)
Title: Imaging system having multiple imaging sensors and an associated method of operation
Inventor: NEIL TOCHER
IPC: H04N5/353
Filed: 2016-05-17
Abstract: An imaging system having a plurality of imaging sensors, each imaging sensor comprising a plurality of pixels or sensing elements configured to detect incident radiation and output a signal representative thereof. Each imaging sensor is operable to sample different subsets of pixels or sensing elements at different times to collect output signals representative of radiation incident thereon. The imaging system is configured to sample one or more of the subsets of pixels or sensing elements of one or more or each imaging sensor that are towards and/or closest to at least one or each neighbouring or adjacent sensor whilst collecting output signals from one or more subsets of pixels or sensing elements of the at least one or each neighbouring or adjacent imaging sensor that are towards and/or closest to the imaging sensor. Optionally, the imaging system is configured such that the subsets of pixels or sensing elements of at least one or each imaging sensor are sampled or swept in a pattern that is a mirror image or inverse to that of at least one or each imaging sensor that neighbours or is adjacent to it. For example, at least one or each of the imaging sensors and at least one or each of its neighbouring imaging sensors are scanned or swept in directions that are mutually towards and/or away from each other.
Patent GB-2541777-A (GB)
Title: Control of a car park sensor
Inventor: STEFAN NORDBRUCH
IPC: G08G1/14
Filed: 2016-06-14
Abstract: A car park sensor 120 comprises a sensor 160 for scanning a parking place 110 for a vehicle 115. An activity of vehicles 115 in the car park 105 is determined and a scanning frequency is determined based upon this activity. The sensor 160 is then activated, in dependence on this scanning frequency, to perform a scanning operation. In one embodiment, the activity of vehicles is determined by scanning an infrastructure device 175, which may be configured to determine a speed or a wait time of a vehicle 115 in a traffic area. The scanning frequency may be determined for an individual, for a group of, or for all car park sensors 120. The car park sensor 120 may have a limited energy supply 170 and may be designed to put the sensor 160 into an energy-saving state between scanning operations.