baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2542218-A (GB)
Title: Audio connector and circuitry
Inventor: JONATHAN TAYLOR
IPC: H04R3/00
Filed: 2015-06-04
Abstract: A device (10) for connection to an audio accessory (20) comprising: a jack socket (14) for connection to a jack plug (25) of the audio accessory (20), a ground connection to a first socket contact (428) which is positioned to mate with a ground return pole of the plug (25). The jack socket (14) comprises a second contact (432) also positioned to mate with the ground return pole of the plug (25). Driver amplifiers (416, 418) comprise an input coupled to the second contact (432) and are configured to superimpose a signal present at the second contact (432) onto received speaker signal. It may achieve reducing the crosstalk which could distort or blur the stereo image.
Patent GB-2534521-A (GB)
Title: Power transmitting apparatus, power receiving apparatus, control methods therefor, program, and computer-readable storage medium
Inventor: KAZUHIDE NAGAMINE
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 2014-09-10
Abstract: A power transmitting apparatus transmits power by a first wireless power transmission method, transmits power by a second wireless power transmission method, detects a wireless power transmission method supported by a power receiving apparatus, and determines whether power is transmitted to a first power receiving apparatus by the first power transmission method or the second power transmission method, based on a detected wireless power transmission method supported by the first power receiving apparatus and a detected wireless power transmission method supported by a second power receiving apparatus.
Patent GB-2550112-A (GB)
Title: Method of verifying a potential detection of a man overboard event and alert verification processing apparatus
Inventor: MARIO CAPPELLETTI
IPC: H04N7/18
Filed: 2016-04-29
Abstract: Verifying the detection of a man overboard event recorded as a moving object in a plurality of sequential frames of image data with respect to a time window. Ranging track data is received with respect to the time window and a geometric chord is then identified that intersects a start point 810, 820 and an end point of a path described by the ranging track data. A height of the start point 814, 824 and an angle 816, 826 defined by a convergence of the chord and a vertical are then determined. The height and the angle are then compared relative to a boundary line in order to classify the path in relation to a man overboard event, thereby validating the detection. Preferably the boundary line is defined by its height and angle and is based upon empirical data comprising clusters of pairs of angle and height data. Also disclosed is the configuration of a radar track analyser where a plurality of ranging track data is received and analysed to determine a boundary line between two grouped clusters of track data.
Patent GB-2543619-A (GB)
Title: Microfluidic arrangements
Inventor: Peter Richard Cook
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 2016-08-18
Abstract: A method of fabricating a microfluidic arrangement for manipulating fluids comprising arranging a first fluid on an unpatterned surface of a substrate in a desired shape, arranging a second fluid, which is immiscible with the first fluid, to cover the first fluid at least partially, wherein the first fluid is retained in said shape by a fluid interface between the first and second fluids and drying the first fluid to form a residue in said shape on the substrate. The arrangement maybe an array of drops and/or a circuit wherein droplets are connected by fluid conduits. Ideally, the first fluid is an aqueous liquid comprising cell culture medium, trehalose, buffered saline and sugar. The second fluid is a gas, oil or fluorocarbon. A microfluidic arrangement comprising a substrate with a surface and a residue on the surface wherein the residue is from a dried out fluid arranged in a desired shape. Introduction of a first fluid to the residue, rehydrates the residue such that the first fluid is arranged in the shape. The first fluid may spontaneously wick to other regions of the residue.
Patent GB-2543407-A (GB)
Title: A Device for measuring colour properties
Inventor: RICHARD FRANK LAWN
IPC: G01N21/25
Filed: 2016-09-16
Abstract: A method for determining colour properties of a target is disclosed. An enclosure has first and second opposing end walls, 10a, (10b fig 1c), each with an aperture 16, 18. The first end wall 10a comprises a screen 12 which has a pattern of coloured sections forming a coloured grid (20, fig 2) around the hole 16. The housing has side walls 10c so light may only enter through the second aperture (18, fig 1c). The screen 12 is placed over a target and a digital camera placed over the second aperture 18, its flash illuminating the screen 12 overlayed on the target. The camera obtains sensor data representative of at least a portion of light reflected from the screen 12 and uses it to obtain reference parameters for the colour properties of the target and coloured grid sections (20, fig 2), which may be derived by a remote processing module. The colour properties may comprise RGB values and the difference may be determined by subtracting a derived RGB value from a known colour property of the coloured section with a derived RGB value nearest to that of the target.
Patent GB-2554858-A (GB)
Title: Foldable warning triangle assembly
Inventor: STEPHEN WORNHAM
IPC: G09F13/22
Filed: 2016-09-30
Abstract: A foldable warning triangle assembly 100 comprising three arms 112,114,116 configurable as a triangle. The three arms are pivotably connected together at pivot points 118,120,122 such that they collapse without disconnecting the three arms. The assembly also comprises an electrical switch within a first arm 112 adjacent a pivot point between the first and second arms 112,114. The second arm 114 comprises a surface arranged to apply force on the switch when the three arms are configured as a triangle completing an electrical circuit of the warning triangle. Also provided is a foldable warning triangle assembly comprising three arms and a housing in which the housing comprises an interior to receive the triangle assembly when folded and comprises a support connector for the triangle providing it a base or a locking mechanism comprising a rotatable switch or an externally accessible storage compartment. Also provided is a foldable warning triangle assembly comprising three arms each arm comprising an array of lights and a control module to control the illumination of the array of lights to provide a pattern of illumination in which the pattern comprises a direction indicator by illuminating two of the three arms in sequence.
Patent GB-2550628-A (GB)
Title: Protective glove
Inventor: MATTHEW SHARP
IPC: A63B71/14
Filed: 2016-11-16
Abstract: A protective glove 100 comprising a wrist section 200 for protecting the wearers wrist; a hand section 300 attached to an end of the wrist section, for protecting the wearers hand, the hand section comprising a knuckle section 304 for protecting the knuckles; the glove further comprising a semi rigid wrist-support tongue 500 moveable along the wrist section towards the hand section to a position selected by the wearer, in use the tongue being held in place by the wrist section; and a knuckle compressor 600 configured to compress the knuckle section, comprising at least one strap 601 extending from a palm side of the hand section to a back side of the hand section, the at least one strap configured to compress a back side of the knuckle section. Preferably the compression applied is adjustable, further preferably by adjustable attachment 602, 603, 802 of the strap to the hand or wrist section. Preferably the knuckle section includes a pad containing a non-Newtonian fluid.
Patent GB-2556126-A (GB)
Title: Signage unit and system incorporating a signage unit
Inventor: PHILLIP FRANCIS CUSACK
IPC: G08G1/0967
Filed: 2016-11-24
Abstract: The system comprises a signage unit 1 with first 50 and second 52 panels arranged to have an outer 56 and inner 58 face with respect to the other panel, both panels are connected at a proximal end to a connecting element 4 which may be perpendicular to the panels an may be in unitary construction with them. The signage unit also comprises means of attachment to a traffic barrier which may include apertures 8 at the opposing side of the panels from the connector and may use linking means such as ties (11,Fig.3) to secure the unit via these apertures. A proximity beacon 5 comprises a transmitter that transmits a key to a users mobile device, wherein a program on said device then allows the user to access information from a database about the road-works present. The transmitter 5 may be housed on the inner side of one of the panels 62 which may comprise a U-Shaped portion on the inner side which forms a channel 70 between the panel and the barrier (Fig.4). The front face of a panel may also bear an indicium 3 comprising a raised portion.
Patent GB-2558641-A (GB)
Title: A box and corresponding blank with a variable dimension
Inventor: DAVID FIRTH
IPC: B65D5/00
Filed: 2017-01-13
Abstract: A box has an unused fold line 12 which, had it been folded, would have made the box a different size. A blank 10 used to form the box can have a set of four parallel fold lines 16 perpendicular to a set of six parallel fold lines 12, 14. The blank can be corrugated cardboard and flutes adjacent a fold line can be crushed. The blank can have further fold lines arranged at 45 degrees to other fold lines. There can be partial cut lines to form tabs to construct the box. There can be adhesive tape 26 provided on a separable portion to seal the box. After opening the separable portion can be detached via a tear strip 30 and further tape can seal the box in a different region. A guide having three perpendicular walls with markings on them can be provided to indicate which lines to fold along for certain sizes of box.
Patent GB-2564691-A (GB)
Title: An EGR system
Inventor: JONATHAN EDWARD CAINE
IPC: F02M26/34
Filed: 2017-07-20
Abstract: An engine assembly 100 comprises an Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) system 200 having an EGR duct 204 that recirculates exhaust gases to an intake 132 of the engine assembly. A turbocharger assembly 120 comprises a compressor 122 that compresses inlet gases entering the engine assembly, a turbine 124 that expands exhaust gases leaving the engine assembly and drives the compressor, and an auxiliary (EGR) compressor 202 configured to compress the exhaust gases recirculated by the EGR duct. The auxiliary compressor is driven by the turbine and arranged on an opposite side of the turbine to the compressor. An EGR cooler reduces the temperature of the exhaust gases recirculated by the EGR duct after being compressed by the auxiliary compressor. The auxiliary compressor may define a bypass channel to permit exhaust gases to flow through the auxiliary compressor without being compressed.
Patent GB-2559016-A (GB)
Title: Electric machine apparatus
Inventor: TIAGO CESA
IPC: H02K1/27
Filed: 2017-11-22
Abstract: A rotor (fig 2A, 3) for an electrical machine (fig 2A, 1), the rotor comprising a plurality of magnet poles 5a-h each comprising one or more permanent magnets 6-n, the magnet poles being angularly separated from each other and an inter-pole region 7a-h being formed between adjacent magnet poles, wherein at least one external flux barrier 12-1, 12-2 is disposed in each inter-pole region, wherein at least one external flux barrier comprising an external aperture. The rotor may have first and second, third and fourth external flux barriers in each inter-pole region, wherein the third and fourth barriers may be between the first and second external flux barriers. The third and fourth external barriers may be symmetrical about a central inter-pole axis and the first and second barriers form an inter-pole tooth. Each magnet pole may have a first radius and each inter-pole tooth have a second outer surface having a second radius, where the first and second radius being different. Internal flux barriers may also be arranged between the external flux barriers. The magnet pole may have a first radius and inter-pole region have a second outer surface having a second radius, the first radius being less than said second radius. The machine may be a permanent magnet synchronous machine used in a vehicle.
Patent GB-2556507-A (GB)
Title: Real-time routing system and associated methodology for adapting order flow for enhanced execution performance
Inventor: DAVID THULSON
IPC: G06Q40/04
Filed: 2016-08-03
Abstract: Systems and methods for real-time routing and retail order flow adaptation to enhance execution performance can be configured to receive an order from a customer including a product identifier, order characteristics, and pricing information; identify a set of appropriate market venues based on the product identifier and/or order characteristics; determine expected behavior of the market venues based on historical data for executed orders and real-time order statistics; select, based upon expected behavior, a first market venue; and route the order, in real-time, to the first market venue for fulfillment.
Patent GB-2562617-A (GB)
Title: Water current turbine energy converters
Inventor: GWENAEL ORVEN
IPC: F03B17/06
Filed: 2018-04-03
Abstract: A water current turbine energy converter comprises an energy conversion device supported by a support structure attached to a bed of a body of water. The energy conversion device includes electricity generating equipment 20 that converts rotation of a turbine 5 into output electrical power. A controller 30 is able to detect the loss of a grid voltage, and then shut down the energy converter, using energy from a UPS 32. Once the energy converter is shut down, the controller switches off or enters a low power mode. When a grid connection detector 50 detects that a grid connection has been restored, the UPS 32 switches on and supplies power to the controller 30, which starts up and initiates a restart of the energy converter. The switchgear may remain closed during a grid loss event.
Patent GB-2560848-A (GB)
Title: Implementation concepts and related methods for optical computing devices
Inventor: ROBERT PAUL FREESE
IPC: G01N21/31
Filed: 2013-06-20
Abstract: An optical computing device 500 to determine a characteristic of a fluid sample 106 comprises: a tubular body 502 having a bore 504 extending therethrough; an optical groove 506 extending along a surface of the bore in which a sample of the fluid may flow; electromagnetic radiation 108 that optically interacts with the sample flowing through the groove to thereby produce sample-interacted light; an optical element 104 that optically interacts with the sample-interacted light to produce optically-interacted light corresponding to the characteristic of the sample; and a detector 116, 118, 216 positioned to measure the optically-interacted light to generate a signal utilized to determine the characteristic. A method includes deploying the optical computing device into an environment, which may be a downhole well, optically interacting electromagnetic radiation with the sample, optically interacting the optical element with the resultant sample-interacted light to produce optically-interacted light, generating a signal corresponding to this light using a detector, and determining the characteristic using the signal. The device may be an Integrated Computational Element (ICE) or Multivariate Optical Element (MOE).
Patent GB-2568993-A (GB)
Title: Generating 3D structures using genetic programming to satisfy functional and geometric constraints
Inventor: Vojtech Krs
IPC: G06T17/00
Filed: 2018-09-14
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generation of 3D structures. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes initializing systems configured to provide rules that specify edge connections between vertices and parametric properties of the vertices. The rules are applied to an initial set of vertices to generate 3D graphs for each of these vertex-rule-graph (VRG) systems. The initial set of vertices is associated with provided interaction surfaces of a 3D model. Skeleton geometries are generated for the 3D graphs, and an associated objective function is calculated. The objective function is configured to evaluate the fitness of the skeleton geometries based on given geometric and functional constraints. A 3D structure is generated through an iterative application of genetic programming techniques applied to the VRG systems to minimize the objective function. Receiving updated constraints and interaction surfaces, for incorporation in the iterative process.
Patent GB-2578434-A (GB)
Title: A pump assembly for use in a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system
Inventor: LARRY ZHOU
IPC: F01N3/20
Filed: 2018-10-25
Abstract: A pump assembly for a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system comprises a pump 19 for pressurising urea and a filter 20 for filtering urea to be drawn by the pump. The pump and filter are located within a housing (1, fig 4). A heating system has a rigid cover 24, which covers at least a portion of both the pump and the filter, and is provided with integrated fixing means to attach to the housing. The heating system may comprise a heated blanket beneath the rigid cover. An SCR system includes the pump assembly and a dosing module for receiving pressurised urea from the pump assembly and dosing to an exhaust flow from a compression ignition internal combustion engine. A method of assembling the pump assembly includes performing a visual inspection of the integrated fixing means while cooperating the integrated fixing means with a corresponding attachment feature (52, fig 6) to attach the rigid cover to the housing so it is positioned correctly.
Patent GB-2578474-A (GB)
Title: Collating machine and method
Inventor: Neil Burks
IPC: B65H9/00
Filed: 2018-10-29
Abstract: A system for the accurate alignment of sheets of material relative to apparatus such as a machine for collating component layers or sheets uses an inductive sensor 104 at a known position on the apparatus to detect a metallic sensor or reference feature 102 in the sheet 100 and means 130a for moving the sheet 100 relative to the sensor 104. The system may use additional inductive sensors 104a, 104b, 104c, 104d, additional metallic sensor features 102 and additional moving means 130a, 130b to align the sheet 100. The system maybe used in the production of electronic or smart cards from layers carrying printing, security and electronic features including RFID and NFC technology such as an antenna and a chip. The metallic sensor feature 102 may be an antenna such as a spiral wound wire. Moving means 130 may be grippers, suction devices, rollers or pushers. Guides or rollers 106, 108 may help to accurately maintain the separation between the sheet 100 and the sensor 104. The sheet 100 may include a number of similar elements that will ultimately be divided up to produce separate cards.
Patent GB-2570795-A (GB)
Title: Display device
Inventor: DONG-YOUNG KIM
IPC: H01L51/52
Filed: 2018-12-19
Abstract: A display device comprising a substrate with an active area containing two TFTs 100,150 formed of a semiconductor layer 104,154, a gate electrode 102,152, a source electrode 106,156 and a drain electrode 108,158. The second TFT has a source electrode 106 overlapping the gate electrode 104 with an insulation film therebetween, forming a storage capacitor Cst. A light shielding layer 178 may be formed in the same layer and of the same material as the gate electrode 152 of the first TFT. The first and second TFTs may have a polycrystalline semiconductor layer 152 and an oxide semiconductor layer 102 respectively. The display may have a bending area BA and a plurality of contact holes 164,174 in the active area. The bending area may have at least one opening 192,194 that is as deep as the contact holes. The display device may have an organic light-emitting element 130.
Patent GB-2580346-A (GB)
Title: Clutch for use in actuating a wing tip device
Inventor: GAETAN DUSSART
IPC: F16D13/24
Filed: 2019-01-02
Abstract: A clutch 170, for use in actuating an aircraft wing tip device (150, fig 1B), comprises first and second friction members 232, 234 each having a frusto-conical friction surface 233, 235, and a third friction member 236 arranged coaxially with, and between, the first and second friction members 232, 234. The third friction member 236 has first and second frusto-conical friction surfaces 237, 238. When the clutch 170 is engaged, the first and second friction surfaces 237, 238 of the third friction member 236 are brought into contact with the friction surfaces 233, 235 of the first and second friction members 232, 234, respectively. The clutch also comprises spacer means, e.g. elastic spacer 260, operable to separate the friction surfaces from one another when the clutch is in a disengaged state. The clutch 170 selectively transmits torque between a wing tip actuator (160) and a wing tip device (150) to move the wing tip device (150) relative to a fixed wing (126). Reference is also made to a method and an aircraft.
Patent GB-2571450-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for electrical measurement
Inventor: TOLGA AYDEMIR
IPC: G01R19/00
Filed: 2019-02-07
Abstract: A measurement apparatus for performing electrical measurements of a fuseway comprising a low resistivity busbar, with a pair of contacts 69, 64, arranged to measure voltage-drop across or current through a segment of the busbar between the contacts. Signal lines 63 and 65 are arranged to substantially cancel the magnetic coupling between the busbar and the signal lines. The current passing through the segment may be calculated from a measured voltage and a known resistance. The busbar may form a contact for a fuse or fuse-holder (13 figure 2). Secondarily, an apparatus comprising an interface for connecting to a fuseholder (9 figure 1) is defined, comprising a pair of contacts (13 figure 2) and a measurement circuit (50 figure 7), in addition to an electrical supply circuit (figure 11) arranged to provide power from the fuseway to the measurement circuit when the apparatus is engaged with a fuseway. A control panel (figure 5) may be provided to display or store results of tests.
Patent GB-2585332-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle with moving object detector
Inventor: Pasihapaori Chidziva
IPC: B60R21/34
Filed: 2019-02-12
Abstract: A vehicle 1 that has a sensor 2 for scanning an arc which extends under other vehicle bodies and uses a computer to analyse and differentiate between static and moving objects relative to the travelling vehicle. The sensor may be mounted at the front of the vehicle between the front wheels and sit just above the road. This may mean that the sensor is mounted on the front bumper or radiator grill. The sensor may be a vidar, camera or infra-red device. The computer may generate an alarm signal when a moving object is detected. The sensor may use radio waves to detect if there is a pedestrian leg or lower limbs behind a parked or moving car.
Patent GB-2572274-A (GB)
Title: Flow detection device
Inventor: SAMUEL BAILEY
IPC: G01M3/00
Filed: 2015-01-07
Abstract: A water leak detector includes a pipe wall temperature sensor 16 and an ambient temperature sensor 20 which provide signals to ECU 40 to determine a temperature difference between the pipe wall temperature and the ambient temperature and if the temperature difference is above a predetermined threshold for a period of time, determine that water is flowing in the pipe system due to the leak. The detector also includes an alert means in the form of alarm unit 46 (visible or audible) and wireless connection to transmit data to a remote station and to send an alarm signal when needed.