baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2420036-A (GB)
Title: Optical transceiver with a composite electrical input
Inventor: SICARD STEPHANE
IPC: H04B10/50
Filed: 2004-11-05
Abstract: This invention relates to an improved optical transceiver. The invention provides an optical transceiver comprising a photodetector for receiving an optical signal and generating and electrical signal; an optical source for generating an optical signal in response to an electrical signal; and a modulator/demodulator arranged to receive a modulated electrical signal and to generate therefrom a plurality of transmission electrical signals; and receive a plurality of received electrical signals and to generate therefrom a modulated electrical signal; wherein the said plurality of transmission electrical signals are coupled to the optical source for transmission of corresponding optical signals; and the photodetector receives a plurality of optical signals and generates therefrom the said plurality of received electrical signals.
Patent GB-2409660-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method of processing materials
Inventor: SPENCER DICK B
IPC: B27B31/00
Filed: 2003-08-20
Abstract: A linear positioning device for a table saw couples a moveable carriage to a fence. Movement of the carriage is governed by a controller.
Patent GB-2414636-A (GB)
Title: Radio channel control method in a cellular system
Inventor: HAMABE KOJIRO
IPC: H04M3/00
Filed: 2005-04-15
Abstract: When a cell load becomes higher than a call setup threshold value for a first channel (CS channel), a second channel (PS channel) is changed into a channel having a low transmission rate. Consequently, the cell load is reduced and no call loss occurs in the first channel. Therefore, the call loss rate of a first communication service is lowered. Simultaneously, a handover threshold value is higher than the call setup threshold value for the first channel so that a failure rate of handover is lowered. The first channel may be a circuit switched, high priority voice channel, and the second channel a packet switched, low priority data channel. In a second embodiment, if no high transmission rate data channel is present, a low transmission rate data channel, if present, is released and the common channel used.
Patent GB-2411184-A (GB)
Title: Easily mountable fence, due to the method used
Inventor: UYANIK VAHIT
IPC: E04H17/14
Filed: 2005-05-05
Abstract: The fence, which can easily be set up, in general, comprises of a fence module (1), the slots/recesses (2), through which the connecting element (3) passes and that provides the connection and the fixing nut (4); and in the end all these are being combined together to form the fence.
Patent GB-2413022-A (GB)
Title: Laser doppler perfusion imaging using a two-dimensional random access high pixel readout rate image sensor
Inventor: SEROV ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH
IPC: G06T7/20
Filed: 2003-02-03
Abstract: Laser doppler perfusion imaging system including a laser light source (2), an image detector (4), and signal detector (6); the laser light source (2), in use, being arranged for illuminating a selected area of interest (12) on a sample (10) for determining perfusion-related data of the sample (10), the image detector, in use, being arranged for capturing an image of the sample (10), and the signal detector (6), in use, being arranged for detecting a laser doppler signal from the selected area of interest (12) on the sample (10), and in which said image detector embodies said signal detector, said image detector being a two-dimensional random access high pixel readout rate image sensor device.
Patent GB-2418177-A (GB)
Title: Inflatable means for securing cargo
Inventor: PRENTICE MARK E
IPC: B65D81/05
Filed: 2005-09-19
Abstract: Cargo is secured in a cargo container, such as the hold of a ship by placing dunnage bags between the cargo items. Each dunnage bag 3 is connected to a manifold 7 by an individual bag hose 8 and the manifold is connected to a source of compressed air. The manifold 7 supplies compressed air to each bag 3 so that a substantially constant pressure is maintained in each bag. A method of automatically monitoring the pressure in each bag over a period of time and, if the pressure drops, automatically introducing air to the bags, is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2422869-A (GB)
Title: Mastic application with adjustable trowelling bar
Inventor: CASTAGNETTA DAVID JOSEPH
IPC: E04F21/08
Filed: 2005-11-16
Abstract: A tool for applying mastic to drywall, having a flexible trowelling bar 16 for smoothing and shaping the applied mastic. The curvature of the trowelling bar 16 is controlled by the rotation of a cam 34 that is positioned on a rigid support 36 and that is directly coupled to the trowelling bar through a link 52. Springs 72, 74 are positioned between the rigid support 36 and the trowelling bar 16 to maintain tension on the link 52 during rotation of the cam 34. The springs 72, 74 exert pressure on the trowelling bar 16 through plungers 57, 58 having rounded feet 64, 66 that maintain consistent contact with the trowelling bar 16 as the curvature of the trowelling bar changes.
Patent GB-2420405-A (GB)
Title: Laser distance measuring device with coincident emitting and receiving optical axes
Inventor: LIU YI
IPC: G01S17/08
Filed: 2005-11-16
Abstract: A laser distance measuring device is provided for measuring distance to an object. The laser distance measuring device comprises a laser emitter 20, a collimator objective lens 22, an optoelectronic converter 30, a receiving objective lens 33, and a control and analysis system, wherein the collimator objective lens 22 and the receiving objective lens 33 are aligned along a common axis. The laser emitter is positioned at the focal point of the collimator objective lens on the optical axis, and the light receiving surface of the optoelectronic converter is positioned at the focal point of the receiving objective lens on the optical axis. An internal beam path in the form of an optical fibre 40 is formed between the collimator objective lens 22 and the light receiving surface 300 of the optoelectronic converter 30. The laser emitter and collimator lens may both be fixed in an aperture 331 in the receiving lens 33 via a fixing element 24.
Patent GB-2426519-A (GB)
Title: Collagen-coated carrier and method for manufacturing collagen-coated carrier
Inventor: KATO MACHIKO
IPC: C12N5/071
Filed: 2006-05-25
Abstract: A collagen-coated carried that can provide excellent cell adhesion properties and that allows excellent cell growth thereon is provided. Further, a method for manufacturing such a collagen-coated carrier efficiently and reliably is also provided. The collagen-coated carrier includes a base material (carrier) (2) composed of a calcium phosphate-based compound and a coating layer (3) provided so as to cover the surface of the base material. The coating layer is composed of collagen and a protein having a high affinity for the collagen. Such a coating layer covering the surface of the base material is formed by allowing the base material to firmly adsorb the collagen via the protein. The protein preferably has a collagen receptor. More preferably, the protein contains at least one of fibronectin and integrin as a main ingredient.
Patent GB-2426750-A (GB)
Title: Mixing tiles on a production line
Inventor: LAMBERT JOHN
IPC: B28B15/00
Filed: 2006-05-31
Abstract: The invention contemplates a method of manufacturing tiles in a production line having at least two stations, the method including forming the tiles in a series along a conveyor path, and re-arranging the order of the tiles in the series at the stations. It also includes a method which includes loading in a first direction a plurality of tiles to form an array of columns of tiles, and unloading the tiles from the array in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Also included is a method of manufacturing tiles including successively feeding a first batch of a plurality of tiles in a series of tiles to form a column of tiles, and interleafing a second batch of a plurality of tiles in the same series of tiles inbetween the tiles of the first batch in the column. It also includes a method of manufacturing tiles in a production line including controllably colouring a cementitious tile during manufacture by adding pigment to a cementitious mix in a screw mixer at a plurality of points along the length of the screw mixer, and mixing the cementitious mix in the screw mixer.
Patent GB-2440759-A (GB)
Title: Selecting a download cache for digital data
Inventor: TWISS ADAM
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2006-08-11
Abstract: In a network with several network caches 312a-c, the cache used to download data is based on the location of the client 102a requesting the data. The location may be the IP address of the client. The availability of caches, network costs and the location of the data may also be used to select the cache. A request may be sent to a location server 302, a domain name server 306, 308 or a tracker to determine the appropriate cache. A proxy may modify the response of a tracker to insert the address of the cache. The request may return a handle identifying the cache which is then converted to an address by a cache name server 310.
Patent GB-2441366-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle video and audio entertainment system delivering individual content to multiple users
Inventor: CHEN YING-CHUNG
IPC: H04N5/00
Filed: 2006-10-02
Abstract: A car theater video and audio entertainment system is provided with a host box (10, Figure 1) installed with an interior memory (SD card) 11, a wireless signal receiving antenna, a booster 12, and plural sets of video and audio multiplexers 25. An input end of the host box is connected to a VCD/DVD player 13, and an output end is connected to a plurality of display screens 14 and a plurality of control panels (15, Figure 4). The control panels are provided with more than two insertion holes (151, 152) for receiving a game controller (16), earphones (17), or a pair of head-mounted virtual glasses. The memory 11 stores video files, music files, image files, and video game software. By using the control panel to control the host box, each user can choose a channel or other media without interfering with or distracting other users. Thus, an individual entertainment system for a tour bus, aircraft, ship or the like is provided.
Patent GB-2431892-A (GB)
Title: Creating layers in thin-film structures
Inventor: WAITE MICHAEL STUART
IPC: C04B35/111
Filed: 2007-02-19
Abstract: A layer of a material is created in a thin-film structure by coating a substrate 14 in one pass with an ink having a major, fugitive component 13 and at least one minor, non-fugitive component 12 and treating, for example by pyrolysis, the ink to expel the major component 13 to leave the layer 15 of material. The non-fugitive component comprises one or more water soluble ceramic precursors such as water soluble compounds of a transition metal element, rare earth element or main group element or sols or water compatible organometallics and organic compounds containing non-metallic elements. The non-fugitive component may comprise colloidal ceramic nanoparticles having a size in the range 10 to 100 nanometres. The coating is performed by screen printing, offset lithography or pad printing.
Patent GB-2447660-A (GB)
Title: Control system integrated with sensing and audio/image identification functions which control a door lock and/or an engine ignition
Inventor: LI SHIH-HSIUNG
IPC: B60R25/25
Filed: 2007-03-20
Abstract: A control system integrated with sensing and audio/image identification functions includes three identification means. First, a RFID card reader (22) obtains an identification code of a user's RFID card to perform a first identification check. After the first check is passed, the user is asked to make a voice to be compared with a pre-stored voice for a second identification check. After the second check is passed, an image of the user is taken to be compared with a pre-stored image for a third check. A first embodiment relates to a door lock control system in which a RFID card is read to perform a first identity check, a voice sample is taken to perform a second identity check and an image (of the user) is taken to perform a third check after which the electronic door lock is opened. A second embodiment relates to a control system in which a RFID card is read to perform a first identity check, a voice sample is taken from a second identity check, a vehicle door is unlocked in dependence of these checks, a voice command is given to start a vehicle engine an image of the driver is then checked and a control signal is output to the ignition control system. An abnormal voice command may be used to start the engine, the engine will then run for only a limited time or distance thus preventing a would-be robber who intercepts a user getting into their vehicle.
Patent GB-2442542-A (GB)
Title: Door having an external anti-microbial cover
Inventor: REED PHILIP
IPC: A61L2/23
Filed: 2007-03-22
Abstract: A fingerplate 4 and/or a door handle cover 3 incorporates an antimicrobial substance in the form of glass particles which release silver ions (Ag+). The antimicrobial substance is incorporated into the thermoplastic moulding material. The cover may be of tubular form with a longitudinal slit to assist application to the door handle.
Patent GB-2450096-A (GB)
Title: Network Authentication and Reauthentication
Inventor: NASLUND MATS
IPC: H04L9/32
Filed: 2007-06-12
Abstract: A method of authenticating a user (UE) to a network, the user being in possession of first and second authentication credentials associated respectively with first and second authentication procedures. The method comprises sending a challenge from the network to the user according to said second authentication procedure, receiving the challenge at the user and computing a response using said first credential or keying material obtained during an earlier running of said first authentication procedure, and said second credential, sending the response from the user to the network, and receiving the response within the network and using the response to authenticate the user according to said second authentication procedure. The first and second authentication procedures may be different, e.g. AKA and PKI, or the same but using different keys and/or algorithms. The first and second procedures may take place on different networks (AN_1,AN_2) or on the same network for accessing different applications.
Patent GB-2451626-A (GB)
Title: Protective sheets used to protect occupants of a vehicle
Inventor: ROGERS JAMES PETER PAUL
IPC: F41H5/013
Filed: 2007-08-03
Abstract: A vehicle has a passenger compartment comprising external walls and/or doors. Protective sheets 5 are attached to internal surfaces of the external walls and/or doors. Each protective sheet 5 comprises a plurality of layers of soft ballistic armouring material such as KEVLAR (RTM) encased in a water -impermeable plastics casing. The protective sheets 5 may be attached to the vehicle by adhesion or by using a burr fastener system 6.
Patent GB-2446901-A (GB)
Title: Dynamo powered amusement device
Inventor: YU SUN
IPC: A63H3/28
Filed: 2007-02-07
Abstract: A dynamo powered amusement device is provided that has multiple amusement functions integrated into a housing. The amusement functions include two or more of a movement, a light emitting diode illumination, an auditory output and a video presentation. The electrical power source for the amusement functions is a manually powered dynamo. The direct current generated by a dynamo is provided to a printed circuit board in electrical communication with the amusement functions so as to provide power directly from the manually powered dynamo or, if a chargeable battery is present, to supply power from the chargeable battery. The amusement device provides enhanced performance relative to mechanical amusement devices while avoiding costs and environment problems associated with disposable battery containing amusement devices.
Patent GB-2444364-A (GB)
Title: Intumescent multi-component epoxy resin coating composition for fire protection
Inventor: REINHEIMER ARNE
IPC: C08L63/10
Filed: 2007-11-14
Abstract: Intumescent multi-component epoxy resin coating composition for fire protection has a component (A), which contains at least one epoxy resin, and a hardener component (B), which contains at least one hardener for the epoxy resin, and an intumescence component (C), which includes at least one acid constituent, at least one carbon source and at least one gas former, and where the components (A) and (B) are present separated from one another to inhibit reaction and do not react under polymerisation until they are mixed together, characterised in that the component (A) contains at least one vinyl ester, selected from as variety of (meth)acrylic or (meth)acrylate compounds. This coating composition is used for fire protection of steel structural elements, such as steel structures on oil platforms.
Patent GB-2455764-A (GB)
Title: Manually-deployable access ramp assembly
Inventor: ALLEN ROBERT JOHN
IPC: A61G3/06
Filed: 2007-12-20
Abstract: A manual ramp assembly is installed on an underside of a bus 13 adjacent a door. To deploy the ramp assembly a support 20 is manually drawn away from the bus 13 by means of a handle 27. First and second platforms 24, 25, which are pivotally attached to the support 20, are then manually rotated until the free end of the second platform 25 contacts a kerb or road and, after the support 20 has been pushed slightly back towards the bus, a flanged portion 26 of the first platform <B>24</B> is manually secured to a threshold of the bus 13. The first and second platforms 24, 25 thereby define a fairly smooth access ramp 22 for facilitating access to the bus, for example by a wheelchair. The first and second platforms <B>24</B>, 25 may be telescopically connected, rather than being pivotally connected. The support 20 is mounted on runners 21 and the compartment in which the ramp assembly is stowed is closed by a flap 14.
Patent GB-2457064-A (GB)
Title: Manhole cover lifting device
Inventor: HARRIS MARK
IPC: B66F19/00
Filed: 2008-01-31
Abstract: The device comprises a lever bar mounted 4 mounted on a tripod 5 to pivot about a vertical axis and a horizontal axis, the bar 4 carrying a lifting cradle 3 which may be secured to a cover by means of adjustable multi-headed locking keys (fig D). The bar 4 may comprise a telescopic handle bar 6 at one end and a telescopic hook bar 7 at the other end. The tripod 5 may have adjustable, chain-braced legs and stabilising feet (1 fig E) or wheels (fig H). The adjustable keys may be arranged around a central pivot (4 fig D). The lifting cradle 3 may including a stabilizing feet (1 fig C) and a locking system comprising a nut, pressure washer and plate (2 fig C) for securing the lifting cradle to a cover by means of the keys. The device may be collapsible for storage and transportation.
Patent GB-2446074-A (GB)
Title: Reduction of saltiness with sweeteners
Inventor: AYALA NELSON
IPC: A61K9/08
Filed: 2006-10-05
Abstract: The present invention provides compositions for bowel cleansing that have improved palatability through the inclusion of a sweetener, such as a chlorinated sucrose isomer. The invention also provides methods of reducing the saltiness of an orally consumed substance, including phosphate salt and PEG/salt bowel cleansers, through the use of a sweetener. Utilizing a sweetener including Sucralose to reduce the saltiness of a substance unexpectedly contradicts the conventional belief that sweeteners amplify saltiness.
Patent GB-2460651-A (GB)
Title: Controlling delivery of media data to a plurality of target devices in a target network
Inventor: FINLAYSON PIERS DANIEL
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2008-06-03
Abstract: Controlling in an access network the delivery of media data to groups of target devices in a target network. Target device group control data is stored and accessed in response to receipt of a media data delivery initiation request containing a target device group indicator from a source device. Appropriate target device group control data is retrieved and transmitted to the source device identifying a network address to which the source device can transmit media data. The network address may be associated with a group media data delivery mechanism, for example a multicast mechanism, which provides delivery of media data to the target devices without the need for media data to pass out from or back into the target network. Hence, the invention avoids using up valuable bandwidth resources between the target network and the access network. A second embodiment of the invention includes processing messages at a Session Border Controller (SBC) comprising modifying the destination address of one or more messages to identify the network address of the SBC, transmitting the messages to the source device with modified destination address and transmitting other messages to the source device with unmodified destination addresses. Thus, a SBC may be configured to behave in a non-standard manner in relation to some messages it receives and in a standard manner in relation to other messages it receives, so that an address with a special function can be passed by the SBC unmodified without compromising the normal functioning of the SBC.
Patent GB-2451761-A (GB)
Title: Porous body
Inventor: BRIDGE IAIN
IPC: B22F3/11
Filed: 2008-08-06
Abstract: A body which comprises comprises interconnected surface melted granules 15 with voids 30 therebetween. The granules 15 may be a thermoplastic or an aluminium alloy. A surface of the body may be melted to form a skin (45a-c, Fig. 5A and 5B) thereon, or a sheet of material may be adhered to the body using an adhesive which penetrates into the voids 15. Also several of these bodies can be laminated together (Figs. 5A and 5B). These bodies can be made using a mould or using a conveyor and heated rollers 40 or platens. The bodies can be reinforced using wire mesh. The bodies can be in the form of building panels, containers or pallets.
Patent GB-2454305-A (GB)
Title: Recording using laser relaxation oscillation pulses
Inventor: USUI TAKASHI
IPC: G11B7/0045
Filed: 2008-10-06
Abstract: An optical disc device includes a light source portion (20) which applies laser light (100) to an optical disc (D), a drive portion (29) which supplies a drive current to the light source portion so as to cause the light source portion to apply laser light of light pulses having relaxation oscillation, and a controller (31) which controls the drive portion to supply a drive current according to a write strategy so as to cause the light source portion to emit laser light of (n-1)xN (N is an integral number) light pulses having relaxation oscillation with respect to a mark with recording mark length nT (n: integral number, T: channel clock) to be recorded on the optical disc. The laser wavelength may be less than 450 nm.
Patent GB-2467947-A (GB)
Title: Rotary valve internal combustion engine
Inventor: LAWES KEITH
IPC: F01L7/00
Filed: 2009-02-20
Abstract: A rotary valve i.c. engine has a piston connected to a crankshaft and reciprocable in a cylinder 2, and a rotary valve 5 rotatable, eg about the cylinder axis, in a valve housing 8 fixed relative to the cylinder 2. The rotary valve 5 has a volume 9 defining, in part, the combustion chamber 4 and a port 12 communicating successively, during rotation of the valve 5, with inlet and exhaust ports 13, 14. The valve 5 may have a cylindrical part 6 mounted on a ball bearing 7. Alternatively, the valve member may be conical. The interior volume 9 of the valve may have a hemispherical upper end 10 and a wall 11 with the port 12 which may be a bore or hole (fig.4a) or a recess in the lower edge of the cylindrical wall 11 (fig.4b). A spark plug 15 and glow plug 16 may be provided. The rotary valve 5 may be belt driven via a pulley 17 and may have cooling fins 28. A horizontally opposed twin cylinder flat engine may have rotary valves mounted with their axes on the cylinder axes (fig.5) or at right angles thereto (fig.6). The engine may have spark or compression ignition with a carburettor of fuel injection.