baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2539360-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic vaginal dilator
Inventor: TARA LEANN LANGDALE
IPC: A61N2/10
Filed: 2015-04-02
Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to magnetic medical devices for the treatment of chronic medical conditions such as Vulvodynia, Vaginismus, Vaginal Stenosis, Vaginal Atrophy, among others. The magnetic medical device in accordance with the present invention is of a generally elongated shape having an ogive top end, a middle portion of an active diameter, and a bottom end of a passive diameter. The magnetic medical device has an array of magnets within, where the magnets generate a negative magnetic field adjacent to an external surface of the magnetic medical device.
Patent GB-2556040-A (GB)
Title: Vibrating-element force transducer
Inventor: ERIK WILLIAMS
IPC: G01L1/10
Filed: 2016-11-10
Abstract: A vibrating element force transducer comprising an elongate flexural element (2), a driver (4) and a sensor (3) that may be contactless to drive and detect vibration, and an elastically deformable support (1) supporting the flexural element (2) at both ends. Force (12) applied to the support displaces one end of the flexural element relative to the other in a direction proportional to and substantially parallel with the applied force and nonparallel to the longitudinal axis of the flexural element (2). The sensor (3) detects vibration of the element (2) in a harmonic mode higher than the first, this may be higher or lower than the harmonic mode of the flexure and at least part of the support, and these may not overlap. The flexible member may be oriented at an angle of 30-90º relative to the force. The transducer may minimise detection of vibrations lower than the predefined mode. The flexural member may be a beam.
Patent GB-2555820-A (GB)
Title: Simultaneous source acquisition and separation method
Inventor: JOHAN ROBERTSSON
IPC: G01V1/38
Filed: 2016-11-10
Abstract: Seismic recordings are obtained using at least two different simultaneous source acquisition and/or separation methods. At least one of the methods is based on signal apparition. Thus, the contributions from different seismic sources are partially encoded by means of the principles of signal apparition and partially by means of different source encoding techniques. The latter may be space encoding, random dithering, time encoding, random encoding, orthogonal sequence encoding. Specifically, the signal apparition technique comprises varying at least one parameter between sources from one activation to another. The parameter may be the amplitude, spectrum, activation time, location at activation time, or depth of the source. Such varying causes a replication H- of the wavefield H+ in the frequency-wavenumber (fk) domain. This allows for simultaneous source separation, i.e. deblending, in the fk domain.
Patent GB-2541320-A (GB)
Title: Quick-connect chuck mechanism for screwdriver bits and the like
Inventor: SATNAM SINGH
IPC: B25B23/16
Filed: 2015-04-22
Abstract: A bit holder has a shank at a proximal end thereof and a blind bit-accepting hole at a distal end thereof, shaped to receive a correspondingly-shaped tool bit. The bit holder has at least one locking mechanism which includes an angled path defined in the bit holder, opening into a side of the bit-accepting hole, extending away from the bit- accepting hole in a proximal direction at an acute angle A from a central axis. A locking element is slideable in the path. A sleeve around the shank is biased towards the bit-accepting hole by a spring, such that a distal end of the locking element extends slightly into the bit-accepting hole. Moving the sleeve towards the proximal end of the bit holder retracts the locking element from the bit-accepting hole, thereby releasing the bit. A spring-loaded plunger in the blind hole may be used to eject the bit automatically when the locking mechanism is released by the sleeve.
Patent GB-2559599-A (GB)
Title: Improvement to saw blades
Inventor: DAVID ROBIN MAXEY
IPC: B23D61/12
Filed: 2017-02-10
Abstract: A saw blade 100 with a body 102 having a back edge 108, a front edge 114 and parallel sides between the edges. There are a plurality of teeth 130, 132 on the front edge 114 with a gullet region 116 between each tooth and the adjacent tooth. The gullet region is angled such that the front edge is non-perpendicular between the two parallel sides (Fig 5A-C). The angled surface may be between 5 to 85 degrees relative to one of the sides and there may be a pair of opposed angled surfaces (124, Fig 5A) with a flat surface (122, Fig 5A), perpendicular to the sides, between them. The teeth may be arranged in pairs such that a leading tooth 130 extends further from the back edge 108 than the trailing tooth 132 in any pair. The back surface 112 of the leading tooth may be angled in the same way as the gullet region or it may be flat; extending perpendicularly between the two sides. The invention serves to reduce the risk of failure during use and extend the service life of a blade.
Patent GB-2562455-A (GB)
Title: An antimicrobial solution
Inventor: WILLIAM CLOETE
IPC: C08L35/02
Filed: 2017-02-21
Abstract: A solution including an antimicrobial polymer having the structure of Formula (I): in which R1 is a C2-C7 alkyl; R2 is a C8-C15 alkyl; R3 is an oxygen atom forming a maleic anhydride residue which optionally converts to a vicinal monoesterified dicarboxylic acid group in alcoholic solution; R4 and R5 are each independently a C1-C4 alkyl; Hal- is a halide anion selected from the group consisting of bromide (Br-), chloride (Cl-) and iodide (I-); i, j, k and i are each independently an integer from 1 to 100; and the ratio of j:1 is from 1:1 to 19:1 in a polar solvent. The quaternary ammonium salt moieties in the polymer provides it with antimicrobial activity. A method of producing the solution comprises reacting poly(styrene-co-maleic anhydride) copolymer with N,N-dimethyl-3-amino(C2-C7)alkyl-1-amine, then reacting the resulting product with a C8-C15 alkyl bromide, chloride or iodide to produce the polymer of Formula (I). The antimicrobial solution may be coated onto a substrate and cured to provide an antimicrobial substrate in which the polymer is covalently bonded to the substrate so that it cannot leach from the substrate.
Patent GB-2559974-A (GB)
Title: Furnace
Inventor: RICHARD MCMAHON
IPC: F27B14/14
Filed: 2017-02-22
Abstract: A furnace suitable for heating material comprises an outer container having a base 1 and a lid 2, and a perforated inner container 3 suitable for receiving a solid fuel. A pipe 6 has one end in fluid connection with the base 1 of the outer container 1, 2 and another end connectable to a source of air 7. A crucible 4 may be held on a stand 5 mounted on the inner container 3, and the base 1 may be supported on another stand 8. The source of air 7 may be a heat gun or a fan. The inner container 3 and outer container 1, 2 may be fabricated from steel. The furnace may have a preheater in the form of a fluid carrying conduit (15, Fig. 4) with an inlet end connected to the pipe 6 and an outlet end extending around the inner container 3. The furnace is particularly suitable for heating metal pieces for model or jewellery making. Methods of heating material using the furnace and melting material placed in the crucible 4 are also claimed.
Patent GB-2563650-A (GB)
Title: A bearing arrangement in an electric supercharger
Inventor: MATTHEW NICHOLAS WEBSTER
IPC: F16N15/02
Filed: 2017-06-22
Abstract: An electric supercharger (109, fig 1) comprises an electric motor (101), a drive shaft 113 and a compressor element (114). A bearing 116b for supporting the drive shaft has an inner race 129 through which the drive shaft passes and an outer race 133 radially outward of the inner race. The outer race is located in a retaining pocket 123 of the supercharger and is surrounded by the retaining pocket along a perimeter contact interface. There is a solid lubricant surface coating 135 on at least one of the retaining pocket and/or the outer race, such that the surface coating is present along the contact interface. The surface coating may be a carbon-based surface coating, such as a graphite-based surface coating (for example a graphite fluoride coating). The bearing may be a rear bearing. The supercharger is used in combination with an internal combustion engine. A vehicle includes the supercharger.
Patent GB-2553638-A (GB)
Title: Damper for a covering for an architectural opening
Inventor: JOSEPH M DOWNEY
IPC: F16F9/12
Filed: 2017-06-28
Abstract: A damper 100 providing varying damping force is provided. The damper 100 may include a housing 106 and a rotary member 108 rotatably received in the housing. The rotary member 108 may rotate within the housing 106 between defined end points of travel 174, 176 to define an angular range of travel of the rotary member 108. An outermost surface 162 of the rotary member 108 may be spaced inwardly from an inner surface 175 of the housing defined between the end points of travel 174, 176 to define a gap G between the outermost surface 162 of the rotary member and the inner surface 175 of the housing throughout the angular range of travel. The gap G may vary in dimension depending on a rotational position of the rotary member 108 to provide varying damping rates within the angular range of travel of the rotary member.
Patent GB-2564439-A (GB)
Title: Moulded blocks for bond beams and the like
Inventor: LIAM CLEAR
IPC: E04C3/22
Filed: 2017-07-10
Abstract: The block 10 has a U-shaped cross-section defining a base 12 at least 160mm wide and a pair of opposed side walls 14, 16, an upper surface of the cross-section sloping inwardly and downwardly from each side wall to a lowest point, where at all positions from a point at most 20mm from the lowest point to the adjacent side wall the slope is at least 31.5 degrees relative to the bottom surface of the base. The upper surface may comprise straight portions sloping to the centre of the block. The straight portions may be joined to each other and the side walls by central and outer smoothly curved portions respectively. Also claimed is a block having a U-shaped cross-section but where the base is up to 160mm wide and the slope of the upper surface at all positions from a point at most 10mm from the lowest point to the adjacent side wall is at least 35 degrees relative to the bottom surface of the base, the base being at least 35mm thick. The block may be concrete and used to form bond beams.
Patent GB-2551285-A (GB)
Title: Repeater for a wellbore
Inventor: MARK W ROBERSON
IPC: E21B47/12
Filed: 2015-03-20
Abstract: A repeater system provided in a wellbore including a plurality of communication units spaced at intervals along a length of a wellbore, the communication units being communicatively coupled via a transmission medium. The communication units are configured to relay data from one communication unit to another communication unit selected from the plurality of communication units along the transmission medium, wherein at least one of the communication units is hopped over as data is relayed across the plurality of communication units along the length of the wellbore.
Patent GB-2552897-A (GB)
Title: Haptic feedback mechanism for an interactive garment
Inventor: NAN-WEI GONG
IPC: G06F3/01
Filed: 2017-08-03
Abstract: A garment/clothing item (104, Fig 1), comprising a haptic feedback mechanism comprising a transmission structure (402, Fig 4) coupled to a vibration source, the transmission structure having multiple vibration points, and a controller to control haptic feedback. The transmission structure may be rigid along a first axis (406, Fig 4), along which vibrations may be transmitted, and flexible along a second axis (408, Fig 4).. The first axis may be along, and the second axis around, a sleeve of the garment. The transmission structure may be a transmission cable, attached to the garment at multiple points, with weights attached between each pair of attachment points. The vibration source may be a linear actuator or a single vibration motor. The garment may also comprise an interactive fabric including conductive threads 202 to form a capacitive touch sensor. The controller may detect touch-input to the threads and provide haptic feedback in response. The invention also relates to a computer-implemented method for operating the garment. An object of the invention is to increase the number of vibration points, and therefore the likelihood of a user noticing the vibration, without requiring more vibration sources (as this would have an impact on available battery power).
Patent GB-2556968-A (GB)
Title: A novel platform for providing OTEC units with a supply of warm and cold sea water and safety from storms
Inventor: Douglas edwards
IPC: F03G7/05
Filed: 2017-08-24
Abstract: A floating housing for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) units comprises a platform with buoyant ballast tanks 4 and a mooring system 8. The platform has a number of slots 9 into which the individual OTEC units may be fitted. A common inlet hose 2 draws cold water from the depth of the ocean for the units, and a common outlet hose 3 vents used water back to the ocean. The outlet hose contains a turbine (not shown), which produces electricity. In a second embodiment an OTEC unit is fitted with a ballast tank and a winch attached to a mooring line, providing a standalone floating unit or a group of units without an associated platform.
Patent GB-2567244-A (GB)
Title: Spatial audio signal processing
Inventor: ANTII JOHANNES ERONEN
IPC: H04S7/00
Filed: 2017-10-09
Abstract: Audio content captured within an environment of defined geometry is received, and the associated audio directions and distances are determined. The directions and distances are mapped to a determined listening space geometry 200. Volumetric audio based on the mapped audio is synthesised to generate an audio content experience within the listening space. The captured audio content may be professional and/or personal audio content. The audio positions may be received with the captured audio or generated after analysing the content. Local personal audio content may be generated by removing a common part between the professional and personal audio, the local personal audio being analysed to determine the audio locations. The audio experience may be generated by mixing remote professional and local personal audio with shared sound having been filtered out. The sound field may be created based on listening position 251. Two separately captured personal audio contents may be switched between. The listening space area may be determined using sensors such as a light field camera or laser range detector. An audio experience can be reproduced in a virtual reality environment using a professional recording 201, 203, 205 mixed with a user’s own personal recording 261, 263, 265.
Patent GB-2560598-A (GB)
Title: Query endpointing based on lip detection
Inventor: CHANWOO KIM
IPC: G10L15/25
Filed: 2017-10-30
Abstract: Systems and methods are described for improving endpoint detection of a voice query submitted by a user. A synchronized video data and audio data is received. A sequence of frames of the video data that includes images corresponding to lip movement on a face is determined. The audio data is endpointed based on first audio data that corresponds to a first frame of the sequence of frames and second audio data that corresponds to a last frame of the sequence of frames. A transcription of the endpointed audio data is generated by an automated speech recognizer. The generated transcription is then provided for output. This enables non-speech noise (e.g. background) to be filtered out after the user has stopped speaking.
Patent GB-2555728-A (GB)
Title: Cancer cell enrichment system
Inventor: JAMES LIM
IPC: C12M3/00
Filed: 2016-04-15
Abstract: The present invention describes a method for the propagation of a subpopulation of cells. The subpopulation of cells can be grown in specific culture conditions to promote growth and enrichment of the subpopulation of cells. The method can be used to determine biomarkers, and guide treatment of cancer patients.
Patent GB-2568487-A (GB)
Title: Aidan Tool v1
Inventor: AIDAN GAYNOR
IPC: B25B23/00
Filed: 2017-11-16
Abstract: A tubular long reach socket wrench adapted for use with a power tool comprising a metal elongated tubular body 5, having a hex shaped head 2 sized to fit a nut or bolt at one end, and a hex drive shaft 4 connected at the opposing end to allow the wrench to be used with a power tool or portable drive unit. The hex shaped head is formed by pressing the metal tube into a hex shaped cavity. Preferably the tubular body 5 has holes 3 that allow a bar to be inserted into the body to allow the user to apply more torque to the nut or bolt that is being tightened or removed. Preferably the hex drive shaft 4 is press fitted or welded into the body 6 of the spanner.
Patent GB-2555970-A (GB)
Title: Beverage dispensing apparatus with smartcup tag identification and verification
Inventor: William Russell Martindale
IPC: G07F13/06
Filed: 2016-05-27
Abstract: In many aspects, a system for a beverage dispenser can include smartcups and smartcup application management systems configured to validate and identify smartcups for dispensing a beverage. Identifying and validating the authenticity of smartcups as well as identifying registered consumers associated with smartcups may provide more secure beverage dispensers that may be placed in public with minimal oversight. Additionally, by identifying registered users associated with a registered smartcup and providing an individualized and streamlined consumer experience, consumer interactions can be improved with a beverage dispenser/provider and may lead to increased usage by consumers.
Patent GB-2559680-A (GB)
Title: Transducer assembly
Inventor: NEIL DEAN SMITH
IPC: G01N29/24
Filed: 2017-12-20
Abstract: A transducer assembly for use in determining a health state of a joint (e.g. a weld joint 45) between first and second joined parts 42, 44, including a transducer module 50 with a transducer element for transmitting or receiving an ultrasonic signal to or from a joint 45, and a mounting part (52, fig 6) comprising an internal wedge portion (70, fig 6), formed integrally with the mounting part (52, fig 6), to which the transducer element, such as a crystal element (100, fig 9) is fixed permanently so that the transducer module 50 forms a unitary replaceable module. The assembly may use time of flight diffraction (TOFD) to identify faults in a weld which may join two pipes. The transducer element may be fixed to a flat face of the wedge 70. There may be a flow means with at least one channel for transporting couplant to a surface of the mounting part 52.
Patent GB-2556542-A (GB)
Title: Multi-dimensional chromatography system using at-column dilution
Inventor: Dan Root
IPC: G01N30/46
Filed: 2017-01-20
Abstract: A chromatography method, comprises (i) injecting a sample into a first flow stream; (ii) separating the sample into two or more components on a first chromatography column; (iii) diverting a portion of the two or more components from the first flow stream; (iv) diluting the diverted portion of the first flow stream with a second flow stream to form a third flow stream; (v) isolating the diverted portion of the two or more components on a trap; (vi) passing a fourth flow stream through the trap to elute the diverted portion of the two or more components; and (vii) separating the diverted portion of the two or more component on a second chromatography column. The fourth stream may be diluted with a fifth flow stream to form a sixth flow stream. The chromatography method may provide greater retention of diverted components on subsequent stationary phases, and increase the sensitivity and peak shape of the component(s) separated on subsequent dimensions.
Patent GB-2573150-A (GB)
Title: Scanning device, system and method
Inventor: STEVEN COLEMAN
IPC: G02B21/00
Filed: 2018-04-26
Abstract: A confocal microscope device is used for scanning a two-dimensional array of illumination beams over a target surface and scanning a corresponding two-dimensional array of emission beams stimulated by the array of illumination beams on to a sensor of an imaging device. First scanning optics such as galvanometer mirror 107 are operable to scan the array of illumination beams over the target surface along a first axis (such as the X axis) and scan the array of emission beams over the sensor along the first axis. Second scanning optics such as piezo-actuated mirrors 302, 303 deflect, on a second axis (such as the y axis), the array of illumination beams as they are scanned over the target surface along the first axis, such that uneven stimulation of the target surface by the array of illumination beams due to interference of the illumination beams is reduced, and similarly deflect, on the second axis, the array of emission beams as they are scanned over the sensor of the imaging device.
Patent GB-2573313-A (GB)
Title: Alarm notification device
Inventor: MARTIN JAMES MORGAN
IPC: G08B17/00
Filed: 2018-05-02
Abstract: Alarm notification device 100 comprises processor 104 configured to read an input indicative of voltage on a supply line and determine at least one operational parameter of current control circuitry 110 using the received input. The device further comprises charge storage device 108 connected to receive current from the current control circuitry and output device 102 selectively activatable to draw power from the current control circuitry and the charge storage device to generate an alert signal. The processor may compare the input indicative of voltage on the supply line to a predetermined threshold and enter an under voltage operation mode if a result of the comparison indicates that the voltage on the supply line falls below the threshold. The processor may apply the determined operational parameter to the control circuitry a plurality of times wherein the current drawn by the current control circuitry ramps up to a steady state mode during the start-up period.
Patent GB-2565396-A (GB)
Title: Vertebral reference clamp
Inventor: Kai Michael Hynna
IPC: A61B90/30
Filed: 2018-05-02
Abstract: A reference tie 300 to be secured around a portion of a spine during a surgical procedure and to be tracked by a surgical navigation system is described. The reference tie 300 includes an elongate strap 310 having a first strap end 312 and a second strap end 314. The reference tie 300 also includes a fastener 320 joined to the elongate strap 310 at the first strap end 312, the fastener 320 for securing the first strap end 312 to a portion of the second strap end 314. The elongate strap 310 is configured to form a secured loop around the portion of the spine. The reference tie 300 also includes a fiducial marker 330 joined to at least one of the elongate strap or the fastener. The fiducial marker 330 is trackable by the surgical navigation system.
Patent GB-2570367-A (GB)
Title: Dispensing apparatus and method
Inventor: BRIAN GEORGE KENNEDY
IPC: A47J31/40
Filed: 2018-11-02
Abstract: A dispensing apparatus comprises a pod support region 280A configured to support a pod 120, an actuator (cam 234, pushing link 202) configured to engage with a corresponding actuator engagement region 308 of the pod 120, and a rotation mechanism (motor 330, support deck 282, fig.8) for rotating the pod 120. The apparatus is configured to cause actuation member (pushing rod 256, fig.12) to cause an opening to be formed in a pod 120 supported by the pod support region 280A. The apparatus is further configured to cause the rotation mechanism to cause the pod to rotate about an axis of rotation during a dispensing operation, so as to cause the beverage preparation ingredient to be released from the pod via said opening. In a further aspect a corresponding mixing chamber and a mixing device (paddle 314) is provided. In a first variant of the further aspect, a valve assembly is further provided in the mixing chamber. In another variant of the further aspect, the pod is provided with a mixing device engagement feature which transfers rotational movement from the pod to the mixing device.