baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2523506-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for anti-blocking hetnet deployment
Inventor: JOHANSSON JAN
IPC: H04W36/30
Filed: 2013-12-11
Abstract: A new approach to anti-blocking cellular communication for HetNet deployment is proposed. First, a block detector sends a block indicator from an LPN to a scheduler in a macro base station. The scheduler then collects the block indicator statistics of each LPN on a sub-frame basis and updates the statistics in each sub-frame. If the statistics of received block indicators for one sub-frame during an observation period of a specific LPN exceeds a first predefined threshold, then the scheduler will not schedule any more uplink transmission to the LPN during the sub-frame for those UEs which are connected to the LPN. When the statistics of received block indicators becomes less than a second predefined threshold, which is less than the first threshold, the scheduler removes the limitation on uplink transmission to the LPN and allocates the sub-frame of the LPN as usual.
Patent GB-2542153-A (GB)
Title: A connector
Inventor: SIMON PICKAVANCE
IPC: F16B7/04
Filed: 2015-09-09
Abstract: A connector 1, arranged to rotatably connect first and second tubular parts 3, 5 together in an end to end configuration in which the adjacent ends of the first and second tubular parts are aligned on a common axis. When the connector is in a first state, the first and second parts can be axially rotated relative to each other, whilst in a second state the parts are rotatably locked together so that they may not rotate relative to each other. The connector may include an annular first insert 11a to be mounted in an end of the first part, a second insert 11b to be mounted in the adjacent end of the second part, and a locking part 19 operable from the outside of the first and second parts. The connector may be of use in transforming a vehicle between a tricycle and scooter form (figures 1 and 2).
Patent GB-2543067-A (GB)
Title: Synchronisation of communications contacts between devices
Inventor: PHILLIP CARTER
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2015-10-06
Abstract: A method of synchronizing contact information for use in Internet Protocol "IP" communications across a plurality of devices. The method comprising providing contact information in the form of a plurality of contact information data objects each in a first format of a data object of a message store, storing the contact information data objects in the message store, and synchronizing the contact information data objects stored in the message store across the plurality of devices.
Patent GB-2533038-A (GB)
Title: Door casing adjustment mechanism
Inventor: Roy Walmsley
IPC: B60J5/04
Filed: 2015-11-27
Abstract: A door casing adjustment mechanism 35 is provided to adjust the height/inclination of a door casing (Fig. 5a, 7) provided on the interior surface 8 of a vehicular door. The mechanism includes a portion 40 for attachment to the door and a portion 36 for attachment to the casing. The portions are arranged eccentrically/offset, so that rotating the mechanism causes the part supporting the casing to rise or fall, with a consequent change in the height of the casing in the region of the mechanism. The mechanism allows the height of the casing relative to the door to be altered in-situ. i.e without detaching the casing or trim panel from the door for each readjustment. Tool-receiving formations 44 or grooves may be provided in the door casing support portion 36, to allow the rotation of the mechanism with a suitable tool e.g. a screwdriver.
Patent GB-2547488-A (GB)
Title: Radar apparatus
Inventor: Frantz Bodereau
IPC: G01S13/88
Filed: 2016-03-31
Abstract: A radar apparatus comprises a signal generation unit 1 and a temperature sensor 10. The signal generation unit generates radar signals at an output power and has an output for the radar signals. The temperature sensor 10 has an output and produces an output signal indicative of a temperature of part of the radar apparatus. The output of the temperature sensor is coupled to the signal generation unit. The signal generation unit is configured so the output power is a first power when the output signal is indicative of a temperature within a first temperature range and is a second power, lower than the first power, when the output signal is indicative of a temperature within a second temperature range higher than the first temperature range. The first and second temperature ranges may be adjacent. There may be third temperature range between the first and second temperature ranges. The output power may be decreased through the third range, from the first range to the second range. The signal generation unit may stop generating radar signals if the output signal indicates a temperature above a threshold, the threshold being higher than the second range. A corresponding method is disclosed.
Patent GB-2549975-A (GB)
Title: Liquid applicator
Inventor: Guy Stephen Miller
IPC: A61B17/00
Filed: 2016-05-05
Abstract: An applicator (1, Fig 1) for holding and discharging a curable liquid composition, preferably surgical glue, comprising a discharge tip 20 having a distal end, from which the liquid is discharged, provided with an outlet section 23 having at least one groove formation 26 extending there along. The groove formations 26 may be provided either internally (Fig 3) or externally (Fig 4) of the tip 20 and are preferably provided with a longitudinal axis parallel therewith. For instance, in one embodiment the tip 20 may have a bore 24 extending through the tip to the distal end thereof, and groove formations 26 are formed in the wall of the bore. In an alternative embodiment (Fig 4) the tip may have an upstream section with a bore and a downstream section in the exterior of which the groove formations (38, Fig 4) are provided. The provision of grooves serves to prevent blockage of the tip, even when pressed against a tissue surface during the fixation of a mesh support material in the repair of hernias.
Patent GB-2550601-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for the provision of AC power
Inventor: PETER BARRASS
IPC: B60L50/30
Filed: 2016-05-24
Abstract: A unit for installation in a complex product including an electric machine requiring an AC power supply. The unit comprises a housing 1 having an AC output 11, a battery 3, and an inverter 13 comprising a plurality of voltage controlled impedances, VCIs, for providing a power supply to the AC output based on energy from the battery. The housing may have a timing signal input 15 configured to receive a timing signal from outside 19 the housing. The timing signal input is coupled to control the VCIs so that changes in the impedances of the VCIs are synchronised with the timing signal. In other embodiments a battery management system (BMS) using an external DC power supply may be provided, the inverter may be a string cell inverter comprising a number of interchangeable units, a cooling circuit for the string cell inverter may be provided. The housing may be a closed container which may be sealed, and may comprise ports for various connections. The complex product may be electric and hybrid vehicles, generators, industrial scale energy storage units, engines, vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, drones, robots and autonomous vehicles etc.
Patent GB-2544371-A (GB)
Title: Electronic vaporiser system
Inventor: IAN MURISON
IPC: A24F40/95
Filed: 2016-09-01
Abstract: An electronic cigarette vaporiser system, or e-cig, includes a piezo-electric pump (6) with multiple piezo-actuators, in which a microcontroller independently adjusts the phase or timing or power of each voltage pulse that triggers a piezo-actuator. The microcontroller continuously or regularly monitors the efficiency or performance of the entire pump (6) and adjusts the phase, timing, or power delivered to each piezo-actuator relationship until or so that the optimum pumping performance is achieved. The pumping is monitored by a flow sensor such as a MEMS flow sensor. The piezo-actuators sending less e-liquid will receive greater power supplied than the actuators sending more.
Patent GB-2557974-A (GB)
Title: Lamp with improved UV output sensing
Inventor: RICHARD CHERRY
IPC: G02B6/24
Filed: 2016-12-21
Abstract: A lamp includes a main body 10 and a light guide 12 attached to the lamp body and a sensor 13 mounted at an output end or exit of the light guide. Alternatively, the light guide may be attached to the main body of the lamp via extension 11 which may be coaxial with the lamp body. The lamp body, extension and the light guide element may be formed of quartz or fused silica or other material with total internal reflection properties which allows for light transmission to the light guide exit where a sensor is positioned. The sensor may be calibrated to give an accurate reading of the lamp UV intensity. The sensor may be used to monitor the UV light (e.g. to determine degradation of the lamp output) or to control the lamp (e.g. to calibrate for loss of light intensity). Use of many sensors may provide measurements of different lamp characteristics. The lamp may be used for water sterilisation.
Patent GB-2557982-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for retaining scaffolding tubes
Inventor: JULIAN BLAND
IPC: E04G7/16
Filed: 2016-12-21
Abstract: An apparatus 10 for retaining a pair of scaffolding tubes comprises first and second formations16, 18. The tubes are retained in use by the apparatus such that an outer face of the first scaffolding tube faces an inner face of the second scaffolding tube. The first formation comprises first and second parts 24, 26, and the first part is moveable relative to the second part to engage the first tube. The first formation also comprises an elongate fastener 28 which in use extends across the outer face of the first tube between the first and second parts, improving safety by preventing users catching themselves on the fastener. The first part may be movable relative to the second part about a pivot. The first formation may comprise an elongate extension 56 which provides a channel for supporting the first scaffolding tube along a part of its length. A reinforcing rib 58 may be provided between the second part and the elongate extension.
Patent GB-2558666-A (GB)
Title: Blister packaging for dispensing pills, apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
Inventor: CAROL FARHA
IPC: B65D75/36
Filed: 2017-01-17
Abstract: A blister packaging for dispensing pills comprising at least one sealed compartment formed from a blister sheet made of semi-transparent thermoplastic polymer material and having a recess 22 formed therein, a cover sheet 26 heat welded to the blister sheet 20 along weld lines 36 running around the recess, the cover sheet including an upper surface with information 34 and formed from a laminated comprising a first layer 30 of printable material and a second layer 32 of a thermoplastic material. The sealed compartment may be hermetically sealed, the thermoplastic polymer be LDPE, the laminate include a liquid crystal polymer barrier, and a perforation line 46 may be provided between said welding lines 36.A method of producing a blister packaging comprising: providing a blister sheet 20 formed from semi-transparent thermoplastic polymer material, positioning the blister sheet on a plate 10 having at least one hole (12,fig.1), applying a vacuum source thereby forming a recess 22 within the blister sheet, depositing pills 24 in the recess, providing a laminate cover sheet 26, printing information onto a first layer 30 of the cover sheet 26, heat welding the cover sheet to the blister sheet along welding lines 36 running around the recess forming a sealed compartment.
Patent GB-2558956-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for use in appraising a well structure
Inventor: NATHAN PETER R GORE
IPC: E21B47/00
Filed: 2017-01-24
Abstract: A method for use in appraising a well structure 15 comprises determining an output indicative of a condition of well structure 15 by comparing an acquired measurement of force required to support well structure 15 with an expected force for supporting well structure 15. Separately there is a method used in appraising a well structure 15 including supporting well structure 15 and acquiring a measurement of force required to support well structure 15. In other aspects there are apparatus for use in appraising a support system 100 for a well structure 15, each having an actuation system (110, Fig. 3a) in complementary engagement with a support member (120, Fig. 3a). One apparatus has a cross-over section (130, Fig. 3a) that couples with a wellhead/tree arrangement 50 at a lower end of support member (120, Fig. 3a) with a well structure portion whose bore diameter is greater than a body portion. In the second apparatus support member (120, Fig. 3a) has mating components at different positions along support member (120, Fig. 3a). In the third apparatus support member (120, Fig. 3a) has an access channel for communicating lifting medium used when it is restrained to actuation system (110, Fig. 3a).
Patent GB-2561245-A (GB)
Title: A device, system and method for monitoring exercise
Inventor: ROBERT HARTE
IPC: A63B71/06
Filed: 2017-04-07
Abstract: A smart device docking station 11 comprises means 9 to engage a piece of exercise equipment means 3 to receive a smart device 15 and a unique identifier associated therewith; the smart device has means to read the unique identifier of the smart device docking station. The smart device may include a processor, an accessible memory, an accelerometer and a personal training application loaded thereon wherein the smart device application analyses the output of the accelerometer to monitor the movement of a moveable weight component to which a docking station may be attached. The identifier may be an RFID, NFC, Bluetooth RTM, QR code or barcode and the smart device may be a phone, phablet or tablet. A method of personal training comprising monitoring movement of a moveable weight component using a smart device accelerometer is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2562484-A (GB)
Title: A decking board
Inventor: NEIL WASON
IPC: E04F15/04
Filed: 2017-05-15
Abstract: A decking board 1 comprises a plurality of lamellas 2. The lamellas are laminated together in layers to form the decking board such that the dimension W of the board along the laminated edges of the lamellas is greater than the width WL of the surface of an individual lamella. The laminated edges of the lamellas form a top surface of the decking board. The decking board is well suited to marine application, such as the floor of a ship or other water craft and as such is preferably constructed from teak, which has good water resistance. The lamellas may be joined together by an adhesive, appropriate examples of which are aerolite, polyurethane, epoxy and urea-formaldehyde glue. The lamellas may be constructed from the same wood or from a range of woods, or be engineered from wood products such as particulate wood and wood fibres. There is also claimed a deck for a watercraft constructed from such boards and a decking sheet comprising several such boards connected together at their edges, which may be supplied as a prefabricated piece. A method of constructing such a decking board is also disclosed, which comprises laminating together several lamellas.
Patent GB-2548761-A (GB)
Title: Detection and imaging of subsurface high impedance contrast objects
Inventor: ELDAD HABER
IPC: G01V3/165
Filed: 2015-12-17
Abstract: A system for detecting an object in a subsurface environment includes a first recorder of a vertical electromagnetic component, including first pair of polarization orientation components, of an electromagnetic field in a region of interest, a second recorder of an orthogonal electromagnetic component, including second pair of polarization orientation components, of the electromagnetic field in the region of interest, at least one processor configured to derive a pair of transfer functions that relates the vertical electromagnetic component and the orthogonal electromagnetic component of the electromagnetic field for each of the polarization orientation components, at least one processor configured to determine a simulation of the pair of transfer functions for a given impedance distribution, and at least one processor configured to infer a subsurface impedance map using the pair of transfer functions of the recorded data and the simulation of the pair of transfer functions.
Patent GB-2548526-A (GB)
Title: Indoor unit and air conditioning device using same
Inventor: HIROMITSU KIKUCHI
IPC: F24F11/04
Filed: 2015-02-03
Abstract: This indoor unit comprises: an indoor-side heat exchanger which performs heat exchange between air and a refrigerant; an indoor fan which sends air to the indoor-side heat exchanger; and a control device which controls the operation of the indoor fan. The control device is equipped with: a current detection unit which detects the operating current of the indoor fan; an air volume calculation unit which calculates the volume of the air sent from the indoor fan on the basis of the operating current detected by the current detection unit; a storage unit which stores air blower characteristic information showing the relationship between the air volume and the static pressure of the indoor fan at each rotational speed; a rotational speed setting unit which sets the rotational speed of the indoor fan so that the air volume becomes a preset air volume, on the basis of the air volume calculated by the air volume calculation unit and the air blower characteristic information stored in the storage unit; and a rotation control unit which drives the indoor fan on the basis of the rotational speed set by the rotational speed setting unit.
Patent GB-2553698-A (GB)
Title: Methods, systems and media for generating an advertisement from a video stream
Inventor: ADAM RUXTON
IPC: H04N21/81
Filed: 2016-05-04
Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for generating an advertisement from a video stream are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, from a first user device, advertisement parameters associated with an advertisement campaign for placing an advertisement based on the advertisement parameters, wherein the advertisement parameters include one or more keywords; associating the advertisement parameters with an identifier of the first user device; receiving, from the first user device, a live video stream; receiving, from a second user device, a request to present an advertisement; identifying the live video stream based at least in part on the one or more keywords; generating the advertisement using the live video stream and the advertisement parameters; and causing the advertisement to be presented on the second user device as the advertisement.
Patent GB-2567671-A (GB)
Title: Permanent magnet electrical machine
Inventor: VLADIMIR SHIROKOV
IPC: H02K21/02
Filed: 2017-10-20
Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical machine 30 comprises a rotor 34 that rotates about a main rotation axis 54 and has rotor permanent magnets 48; a stator having stator windings 36; and an axially repositionable magnetic core 56 which is axially repositionable relative to the axis 54 between a first position in which a magnetic circuit extends from the rotor permanent magnet 48 through one or more stator windings 36; and a second position in which a magnetic circuit extends through the axially repositionable magnetic core 56 and returns to the rotor permanent magnet 48, bypassing the stator windings 36. The machine can be a radial flux machine with the rotor either inward or outward of the stator or an axial flux machine. Repositionable core 56 can rotate with the rotor or be static. There can be a stator core 44 and a rotor core 52 and a flux path can cross air-gaps 62, 46 between them. In the second position reluctance of the flux path through the magnet 48 and the movable magnetic core is lower than reluctance of the flux path through stator teeth.
Patent GB-2571942-A (GB)
Title: Climbing screen support
Inventor: MARK TAYLOR
IPC: E04G21/32
Filed: 2018-03-13
Abstract: A climbing screen support 4a comprises a support member (floor guide) 5, which extends along a longitudinal axis and is fixable to an upper surface of a floor 2 of a construction 200 adjacent an edge of the floor. The climbing screen support also comprises a climbing shoe 6 attachable to the support member for engaging a climbing rail of a climbing screen 100. The climbing screen support is characterised by a flexible or articulated tie 7 attached at a first end portion thereof to the support member 5 or climbing shoe 6 and fixable at a second end portion thereof to the immediately adjacent upper floor of the construction. Also included is a climbing screen support system 1 which includes the climbing screen support 4a and also a climbing screen 100 including a climbing rail and safety screen. A method for adjusting a climbing screen support using a flexible or articulated tie is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2572203-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle controller and control method
Inventor: Fraser Andrew Jardine
IPC: B60W30/182
Filed: 2018-03-23
Abstract: A controller comprising an input means for receiving a single indicative of a user request to transition out of an autonomous driving mode and receiving a capability signal of the user, an output means for outputting a transition signal to cause transition, and a control means to allow output of the transition signal in dependence on the request and capability signals. Preferably, the capability signal is indicative of an awareness level of the user or a gaze state of the user, which could depend on a blink characteristic of the eye of the user. The request signal may be indicative of input by the user to an input apparatus. The input apparatus may be operable by the user’s hand, and could be arranged on the steering wheel in the form of buttons. A system is also included, comprising the controller, a first sensing means to sense the request signal, and a second sensing means to sense the capability signal. The sensing means could be a touch sensor, or a physiological sensor, wherein the physiological sensor may be an infrared camera to capture images of the user’s eyes.
Patent GB-2573275-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus
Inventor: NICHOLAS VIKENTIOU
IPC: A42B3/22
Filed: 2018-04-17
Abstract: A helmet visor (26, fig 1) includes an element to deliver air to a surface of the face shield. The visor is fastened to a helmet by a connector, which includes a first part 70 attached to the visor and a second component 80 for attachment to the helmet. The parts 70, 80 include opposed faces and are rotatable with respect to one another. A passage 79, 88, for conducting air from an external source to the air delivery element, passes through the opposed faces of the parts 70, 80. The parts 70, 80 of the connector 36 include respective connector elements 96, 98 which releasably hold the parts 70, 80 together. The first component 70 includes an opening 120 through which the connector elements 96, 98 can be released to disconnect the face shield from the helmet.
Patent GB-2567270-A (GB)
Title: Mobility and mass measurement using time-varying electric fields
Inventor: KEITH GEORGE RICHARDSON
IPC: H01J49/00
Filed: 2018-05-31
Abstract: Methods of ion mobility and/or mass spectrometry are disclosed in which the ion mobility and/or the value of a function of the mass and charge of an ion, preferably its mass to charge ratio, is determined using an algorithm or relationship that relates the transit time or average ion velocity of any given ion through an ion separation device in which one or more time-varying electric fields are used to separate ions, to one or more parameters for the device, the function of mass and charge of the ion, e.g. m/z, and the ion mobility of the ion. Methods of calibrating an ion mobility and/or mass spectrometer using said algorithm or relationship are also disclosed. The ion separation device is preferably a travelling wave ion mobility separator in which voltages are successively applied to electrodes of the device so as to form a wave of potential barriers that move and urge ions in a first direction along the device.