baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2389568-A (GB)
Title: Conveyor with support facilitating belt removal
Inventor: NORRIS DAVID ALAN
IPC: B65G41/00
Filed: 2002-06-07
Abstract: A conveyor comprises an endless belt 2 supported on at least two rollers 8, 10, one of which is driven, and a bed structure 4 supporting the rollers on one side only. The bed structure includes a resilient member 28 which biases the position of the rollers to tension the belt. A locking mechanism can lock the rollers in a retracted position against the bias of the resilient member, to relieve the tension on the belt. The bed structure is formed from a tubular spine 6, with spaced apart transverse ribs 16, 16a, 16b supporting an upper run 14 of the conveyor belt. Removable stationary side guides can be supported by the ribs on opposite sides of the belt. The spine may be pivoted about a central support in a horizontally transverse axis to the direction of movement of the belt. Two pivotally mounted supports 56 may be included to allow height adjustment of the spine. A height-adjustable foot structure is also claimed.
Patent GB-2379812-A (GB)
Title: Analog to digital converter
Inventor: MAWET PATRICK H
IPC: H03M1/56
Filed: 2002-06-27
Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter has a single ramp with two matched comparators 401, 402 for each leg of differential input. The system may be used with a three-phase transducer configuration, for which the preferred signal processing techniques are able to cancel most of the third harmonic distortion in the system. The invention may be used in a portable measuring instrument that operates from a single 1.5 volt watch battery or solar cell, and that has a current drain of 5 microamps. By using capacitors of the same type in the ramp generator and clock generator, and charging them with scaled bias currents, and by using resistors and capacitors of the same type in the clock and analog-to-digital converter, the scale factor of the system is made to be independent of process parameters.
Patent GB-2380531-A (GB)
Title: Torque transmission device
Inventor: HIRT GUNTER
IPC: B60W30/18
Filed: 2001-01-18
Abstract: The invention relates to a torque transmission device (1) comprising a first (10) and at least one second (12) coupling device, of which each can be switched into different switching positions. The torque transmission device also comprises a drive device (14), an actuating device (16) and a drive release device or a spring device or a change-over device or a release lever device or a valve device.
Patent GB-2375335-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle dynamic stability control
Inventor: MILLER STEVEN ALLAN
IPC: B62D6/00
Filed: 2001-01-30
Abstract: A motor vehicle comprises a plurality of road engaging wheels (7-10), a braking system (3, 14-18) linked to the wheels (7-10) by which a driver of the vehicle (1) may brake the vehicle, a motive means (50) linked to one or more of the wheels (7-10) by which a driver of the vehicle may control vehicle sped, and a dynamic stability control system that includes a means (12-17, 20-22, 24) for deducing the position and orientation of the vehicle (1) with respect to a roadway (4) on which the vehicle travels, a path prediction system (12-17, 20-22, 24) for predicting the trajectory (T<SB>p</SB>) of the motor vehicle (1) with respect to the roadway (4) and for identifying when the predicted trajectory (T<SB>p</SB>) would place the vehicle in danger, and a wheel slip detection system (14-18, 51) for detecting loss of traction of one or more of the wheels (12-17). The dynamic stability control system monitors wheel slip and the predicted trajectory (T<SB>p</SB>) of the vehicle (1), and, if loss of wheel traction is detected when the predicted trajectory (T<SB>p</SB>) would place the vehicle (1) in danger, acts to alter (T<SB>c</SB>) the predicted trajectory, for example by controlling the braking system (14-18) and/or the motive means (50) in such a way that the identified danger is reduced or eliminated.
Patent GB-2394386-A (GB)
Title: Multicast data transfer
Inventor: AALTONEN JANNE
IPC: H04L12/56
Filed: 2002-10-16
Abstract: In response to a file request from a host 3a, a server 7 retrieves the file from a content provider 2. A group comprising the host 3a is defined and the file sent to the group as a sequence of data packets A-G. Any further hosts 3b, 3c in the same locational area as host 3a that submit a request for the same file during the transmission of the data packet sequence are added to the group and receive the remaining packets in the sequence. At the end of the sequence, the server 7 retransmits the data packet sequence to hosts 3b, 3c so that they receive the data packets dropped or missed in the original transmission. A host 3b that moves to another location during the transmission submits a NACK message, which is treated by a server 7' associated with the second locational area as a file request.
Patent GB-2382931-A (GB)
Title: Means and method of circuit component protection
Inventor: NEWMAN PAUL
IPC: H05K1/02
Filed: 2002-12-04
Abstract: Components of a circuit on a printed circuit board <B>3</B> are protected from the effects of destructive breakdown of a component or components <B>1, 2</B> that is or are likely to undergo destructive breakdown by encasing the component or components <B>1, 2</B> in a housing <B>8</B>. If a heat sink assembly <B>6</B> is mounted in contact with a face of the component or components the housing <B>8</B> may be arranged to shield the remaining exposed faces of the component or components <B>1, 2</B> . The housing <B>8</B> may comprise a tray having a base which may be interposed between the component or components <B>1, 2</B> and the printed circuit board <B>3</B>. The housing <B>8</B> may be formed from a folded blank of non-flammable material. The housing <B>8</B> may also comprise a lid formation.
Patent GB-2397202-A (GB)
Title: business management system (bms) which updates controller configuration by broadcasting update messages
Inventor: HUSEIN SAJED
IPC: H04L12/24
Filed: 2003-01-09
Abstract: A building management system and method for configuring the same are disclosed, the building management system comprising a front end device (2, figure 1) networked to a plurality controller devices (1, figure 1). Each controller devices is adapted to transmit a configuration data request 29 if not sufficiently configured to perform its appointed role and the front-end device is adapted to respond to such a configuration data request by broadcasting a configuration data response 32 containing the required configuration data to all the controller devices. Each broadcast configuration data response further includes sufficient information to enable each controller device to determine whether to act on or ignore the broadcast configuration data response.
Patent GB-2390125-A (GB)
Title: A welded joint construction for a steel pipe column
Inventor: NAKAJIMA SUSUMU
IPC: E04B1/24
Filed: 2003-01-15
Abstract: A joint construction for a column of steel pipes comprises a long steel pipe 1 of a first thickness t and a second steel pipe 2 of a second thickness T which is greater than that of the first. The steel pipes 1,2 are formed by either cold or hot forming to have the same outer shape and diameter, and they are welded together from the outside in an arrangement in which an end surface of the long pipe 1 is opposed to an end surface of the short pipe 2 which has no bevelled portion. An inner collar 3 can be included in the joint construction and may be positioned inside the long pipe 1 so that it can be abutted against the end surface of the short pipe 2. The pipes 1,2 may either be quadrangular or cylindrical.
Patent GB-2383277-A (GB)
Title: Evaporative humidifier
Inventor: MULVANEY PATRICK T
IPC: F24F6/04
Filed: 2001-07-13
Abstract: An evaporative humidifier (10) includes a base (12) removably supporting a water tray (34) for holding a quantity of water. A blower assembly (14) and a water tank (16) are removably supported by the base (12) above the water tray (34). The blower assembly (14) includes a housing (88) and a fan (119) disposed intermediate a pair of air inlets (100,102) and an air exhaust outlet (106). A cylindrically shaped wick filter (176) is supported by the water tray (34) and extends upwardly into the housing (88). The fan (119) is driven by a motor mounted inside the housing (88) for drawing air into the housing (88) through the air inlets (100,102), through the cylindrical side walls of the wick (176), and then through the exhaust outlet (106).
Patent GB-2385839-A (GB)
Title: Steering arrangement for an electric vehicle
Inventor: HAYASHI KUNIHIRO
IPC: A61G5/04
Filed: 2003-02-10
Abstract: A single-seat electric vehicle, e.g. for use by the handicapped or elderly, has driven rear wheels and steerable front wheels 1. Steering is by rotation of a steering shaft 501 by a handle 505, the steering shaft being rotatably supported by a steering frame 102a-102d which is detachably connected to frame members of the vehicle. The bottom of steering shaft 501 is geared to a countershaft 508, attached to a to a tie rod arm 509, rotating this in the opposite direction to that of shaft 501 to steer the wheels 1 through tie rods 511. The steering shaft 501 incorporates a universal joint to allow the handle 505 to incline towards the rider.
Patent GB-2398851-A (GB)
Title: Gearbox for a food processor having pulley means and gearing
Inventor: NICHOLSON MARTIN JOHN
IPC: A47J43/08
Filed: 2003-02-28
Abstract: A gearbox for a food processor 100 having first and second rotatable shafts. The first rotatable shaft having a pulley 20 for receiving torque and a first gear 20a. The second rotatable shaft having a second gear 13a in mesh with the first gear. The second rotatable shaft is also provided with a mounting for direct receipt of a food processing tool. Various combinations of gearing and power take-off mountings are also disclosed.
Patent GB-2404720-A (GB)
Title: Domestic tap with rotation limiting mechanism
Inventor: SIM NEIL
IPC: F16K35/02
Filed: 2003-08-07
Abstract: The tap comprises an arresting mechanism which limits the rotation of tap handle 1 to approximately fifty percent of the full available rotation. The tap has a means to override the arresting mechanism, to permit full rotation of the handle to maximum flow. Preferably an adjustment means 2 is provided to set the amount of rotation achieved prior to the activation of the arresting mechanism. The override means 3 may be actuated by a lever or a button (3, Fig 2) or by the displacement of the tap body or tap handle in a downwards direction (4, Fig 3). The override means 3 may be coloured green to indicate environmentally friendly tap.
Patent GB-2394732-A (GB)
Title: Decommissioning Offshore Wells
Inventor: MCFADYEN IAN
IPC: E21B19/00
Filed: 2002-02-12
Abstract: In the abandonment of offshore wells, the well casings 26 have to be cut below the seabed level, and then the platform 12 and all the well hardware above seabed level has to be lifted away. To check that each well casing is cut before the lifting takes place, a beam 30 is supported on the upper ends of two well casings 26a, 26b of the group, and a jacking mechanism 32 is mounted on the beam and is used to lift a third well casing 26c.
Patent GB-2398019-A (GB)
Title: A golf swing training or instruction device
Inventor: FRYER ADRIAN WILLIAM
IPC: A63B69/36
Filed: 2003-09-15
Abstract: A golf swing training mat comprises a sheet 1, eg of flexible vinyl pegged down at corners 2, having various indicia including curved lines 13, 14 showing a swing path 17, 20, 19. In the likely area of impact by a clubhead, the sheet is cut out or apertured to reduce damage to the mat. The sheet is also designed so that the player in practice does not stand on the mat; thus, alternative foot position indicia 4 -9 indicate where the feet should be placed on ground adjacent to side 11 of the mat. In the embodiment of Fig 2 (not shown), the mat is provided with dotted or perforated indicia lines around the area to be cut or pushed out by the user. Additional clock-face markings 22,22' can assist an instructor giving directions to the practising player.
Patent GB-2395609-A (GB)
Title: DC-DC convertor
Inventor: KUNII SHINGO
IPC: H02M3/335
Filed: 2003-10-07
Abstract: A DC-DC converter achieves a high level of a signal superimposed in an AC manner onto the output of an insulator such as a photocoupler, and there are very few limitations in the aspects of constant design, phase correction, starting characteristics, and short-circuit protection. A secondary-side control circuit 9 detects an output voltage, and feeds back a control signal to a drive control circuit on the primary side via a photocoupler 18. The photocoupler insulates the primary side of a DC-DC converter from the secondary side thereof, wherein the control signal output from the secondary-side control circuit is transmitted to the primary side. The output signal of an auxiliary power-supply circuit 15 is superimposed in an AC manner onto the control signal via a coupling capacitor 19. The drive control circuit has a configuration in which a pulse control signal is applied to a switching element Q in order to stabilize the output voltage of a secondary-side circuit on the basis of the control signal.
Patent GB-2408869-A (GB)
Title: Merging two authored audiovisual data structures into a single authored product
Inventor: GREEN STUART ANTONY
IPC: G11B27/00
Filed: 2003-11-04
Abstract: An authoring method for creating an audiovisual product. The method has three main stages. The first stage defines components implicitly representing functional sections of audiovisual content and transitions that represent movements between components. The second stage expands the components and transitions to provide a set of explicitly realised AV assets and an expanded intermediate data structure of nodes and links. Each node is associated with one of the AV assets and the links represent movement from one node to another. The third stage creates the audiovisual product in a predetermined output format, using the AV assets and the expanded intermediate data structure of the nodes and the links, wherein the audiovisual product comprises data representing merged first and second video data. First and second portions of authored audiovisual data produced using different authoring systems or by different operators using the same authoring system may thus be merged to produce one audiovisual product.
Patent GB-2408486-A (GB)
Title: Elongate embossing assembly with plurality of embossing elements
Inventor: WHITE IAN
IPC: B29C59/04
Filed: 2003-11-25
Abstract: The assembly has a cylindrical embossing surface defined by the elements 25a, b which are detachably secured to a core element 12. Each embossing element 25a, b is a disc with a concentric or eccentric aperture with one or more outward recesses for engagement with one or more keyways mounted in an axial recess in the core element 12. A plurality of embossing element recesses enables adjacent elements 25a, b to be mutually displaced circumferentially to provide different patterns of formations on the elements. The embossing elements 25a, b are retained on the core element 12 under axial pressure by compression spacers 19, securing nuts 18 and locking nuts 16 at each end of the core element. The assembly is used for embossing a pattern in a plastics film and underlying adhesive layer of a bituminous sheet roof coating material, as well as for paper, packaging, flooring material, kitchen towels and leather.
Patent GB-2396501-A (GB)
Title: Directing radio beam
Inventor: HAMADA HAJIME
IPC: H04B7/08
Filed: 2000-12-20
Abstract: A radio beam carrying data is directed from an array LAA of n equally spaced antenna elements A0 ... A4 towards a receiver of a mobile unit MS by applying a first reference signal S1 to elements 1 to n-1, ie. A0 ... A3; applying a second reference signal S2 to elements 2 to n, ie. A1 ... A4, which causes the phase centre PAT1, PAT2 of the transmission to move along the array by a distance d equal to the spacing of the antenna elements; receiving both signals at the mobile unit MS and determining their relative phase phil in phase detector PDT; and using the relative phase as the phase difference between weighted copies of a data signal applied respectively to adjacent elements of the antenna array. The two reference signals may be different spread spectrum signals, or the same signal transmitted at different times. The system may be used in a cellular telephone base station BS, the mobile unit MS being in a handset. A modification to the receiver (figure 20) uses only the first copy of each signal received, enabling multipath to be circumvented.
Patent GB-2412335-A (GB)
Title: Base film for use in the manufacture and mounting of base plates
Inventor: BARKER MATTHEW
IPC: C09J7/38
Filed: 2004-03-25
Abstract: The present invention provide an improved base film 1, for use in the production and mounting of a flexographic printing plate 7. The base film 2, which provides a base structure on to which a cured photopolymer relief 6 image is bound, is usually mounted on to a printing press carrier means using double-sided adhesive tape. The improved base film 1 of the present invention eliminates the stage of applying the adhesive tape by providing a base film with a pre-production applied solvent acrylic adhesive 4 and thus eliminates the need for the removal of trapped air bubbles. In order to protect the adhesive layer during the rigours of the flexographic printing plate 7 production process, a release liner 3 is also provided. The adhesive may be applied to the base film sheet in strips.
Patent GB-2415270-A (GB)
Title: A method of generating a test routine
Inventor: PEARCE JAMES
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2004-06-16
Abstract: A method of generating a routine for testing if services, which are to be provided over a telecommunications network, are suitable for a device; the method comprising: reading each item of profile data defining an operational characteristic of a mobile device from a database and, if necessary, from each read item of profile data generating a query to address a data file representative of the service to be tested (preferably in XML format), the generated test routine being the collection of generated queries. Queries are preferably generated in the XPath language.
Patent GB-2402023-A (GB)
Title: Maintaining frequency of a control channel in a cellular communication system
Inventor: JOHNSON NICHOLAS DOUGALL
IPC: H04L12/28
Filed: 2000-07-14
Abstract: A radio telecommunication system, and in particular an in-building system, comprises a number of basestations connected together by a local area network (LAN) at least one of the basestations (BS) is capable of receiving a control channel transmitted by one or more of the other basestations (BS) of the telecommunication systems, from which it derives frequency reference and time offset of its own transmissions with respect to the other basestations (BS) in the system.
Patent GB-2416474-A (GB)
Title: Drying animal feed
Inventor: DEAN COLIN RUSSELL
IPC: F26B3/347
Filed: 2004-07-24
Abstract: Apparatus for drying animal feed, such as grasses, for storage throughout the winter comprises a radiation source 20 and a cavity 12 in which the radiation e.g. microwaves is applied to the animal feed in order to dry it. Preferably the animal feed is compressed before entering the cavity 12 and the cavity 12 has an input and an output choke 22 and 24 in order to limit the amount of radiation which is able to escape from the cavity 12. Additionally, the apparatus may have a discharge area 26 that the animal feed enters once it has been exposed to radiation. In the discharge area 26 air is moved through the processed animal feed removing any moist air present and therefore preventing any reabsorption of water by the animal feed.
Patent GB-2415973-A (GB)
Title: Expandable plug
Inventor: HIORTH ESPEN
IPC: E21B/
Filed: 2004-09-23
Abstract: A downhole high pressure high temperature plug has two radically expandable ring elements 13, 15 which are arranged on a carrying cylindrical element 32 between two mutually axially movable pressure elements 12, 14 having an expansion sleeve in between. The ring elements can by insertion of the downhole plug in a well be expanded from an inner position, seen radially, to a sealing position against the wall of the well. The ring elements 13, 15 comprise a closed series of circumferentially overlapping seal elements 13A, 15A. By the expanding movement they are mutually moved in the circumferential direction, thereby maintaining a seal against each other. They form an outer sealing surface 38, which can provide a seal against a cylindrical pipe wall and they have an inwards facing sealing surface 47.
Patent GB-2416512-A (GB)
Title: Template for cutting elongate workpieces
Inventor: BETTS DENIS LEONARD
IPC: B27G5/02
Filed: 2005-02-03
Abstract: A template 14 for cutting elongate workpieces comprising a sleeve 12 to fit over a workpiece 10 and means for fixing the sleeve to any position along the workpiece, the sleeve having at least one transverse guide slot 16,18,19 for guiding a cutting tool through the workpiece. Preferably, the template is of square or rectangular cross section. The template may have a guide slots at both right angles and acute angles to the longitudinal direction of the sleeve. The template may be made of a sheet of galvanised steel, and the means for fixing the workpiece may comprise a screw 20 passing though a threaded aperture in a wall of the sleeve.
Patent GB-2415468-A (GB)
Title: Engine mount with stiffening means
Inventor: STOWELL CHRISTOPHER JAMES
IPC: B64D27/26
Filed: 2005-06-06
Abstract: A engine mount comprise a first compliant structure (4, fig 2) having a range of movement governed by a first stiffness value, and stiffening means 43, 47 which act on the compliant structure 4 through a part of its range of movement such that the mount has at least two modes of operation, a first mode governed only by the stiffness value of the compliant structure 4, and a second mode governed by the stiffness of the compliant structure 4 and the stiffening means 43, 47. The mount is preferably used to support a gas turbine engine. The compliant structure 4 may be compliant under compression and tension, with the stiffening means 43, 47 acting thereon during compression, tension or both. The stiffening means 43, 47 may comprise one or more resilient Belleville washers.
Patent GB-2427134-A (GB)
Title: A mat with a detachable cover
Inventor: SCHMIDT-MARINO NINA
IPC: A47G27/02
Filed: 2005-06-15
Abstract: A mat with a detachable cover in which the cover (b) is arranged to cover the upper surface of the mat (a) and to extend over the edges thereof forming a pocket (c) or attachment band which extends around the periphery of the cover. The cover is further fastened in position by hook and loop tape, hooks and eyes, or some other means. The detachable cover is capable of being washed by hand or machine. The cover may be backed with a waterproof layer allowing it to be used in a bathroom or kitchen. The attachment band may be formed from a separate textile with anti-slip properties and affixed to the cover.
Patent GB-2415031-A (GB)
Title: Haptic pads for use with user-interface devices
Inventor: HAYWARD VINCENT
IPC: G06F3/033
Filed: 2004-02-18
Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to haptic devices for use with a variety of computer/video interface devices. Such haptic devices can work in conjunction with and thereby provide "haptic augmentations" to otherwise conventional user-in-terface devices, including a variety of computer mice known in the art, irrespective of their types and manufactures. Such haptic devices can also be used to convey information to a user by way of haptic sensations.