baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2547635-A (GB)
Title: Sensor method
Inventor: WILLIAM A PENNY
IPC: F02C7/047
Filed: 2016-02-16
Abstract: A method and system, for detecting precipitation elements 18 (solid particles, ice crystals, liquid droplets) in the air whilst an aircraft is flying, comprising a sensor 10 having a measurement surface 14 on which the particles/droplets impact and a means to record the impact to provide a signal. Additionally a gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine comprises the sensor, a recorder, a store 22 and a comparator 20. The recorder records the impacts and provides a recorded signal. The store comprises reference signals, one of which corresponds to hazardous conditions. The comparator compares recorded signals with reference signals and alerts a control system to operate the engine in a safe mode if the comparator determines that the recorded signal matches the signal corresponding to a known hazardous condition. The sensor may comprise a piezoelectric sensor 12 responsive to impacting particles on the measurement surface.
Patent GB-2535890-A (GB)
Title: Rotational resistance system
Inventor: JOHN JOSEPH LACAZE
IPC: A63B22/14
Filed: 2016-02-26
Abstract: A rotational resistance system comprises: a pair of separate rotational resistance devices in side-by-side relation suitable for placement of a corresponding hand or foot of a user thereon. Each device includes: a base 310 adapted for placement on a floor or planar surface, a hollow foot support structure on the base, a top surface 322 of which is inclined at an upward angle relative to horizontal, and a rotatable foot plate 330 contained in and serving as part of the top surface 322 of the foot support structure, the foot plate 330 connected to a means for providing resistance and release of resistance. The means for providing resistance and release of resistance is preferably variable by a user; the resistance is preferably provided by a spring and the device may include a window 312 to indicate to a user the tension imparted by the spring.
Patent GB-2550171-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for in-store purchase of security-tagged items while avoiding the point of sale
Inventor: MUSTAFA ABEDIN KHANWALA
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2016-05-11
Abstract: Methods and a system 100 for enabling in-store purchasing of security-tagged merchandise 20 while avoiding going through a point of sale of a retailer. A user-coupled device 110 is configured to identify a security tag 120 attached to a specific item 20 to be purchased, wherein the security-tag 120 is unique to the specific identified item. A purchase request is initiated via the user-coupled device, wherein the request includes a price of the item and identifiers of: the item 20, the security-tag identification 122, the retailer, and the consumer 10. A remote server 130 is configured to attempt a transaction based on the purchase request, wherein the transaction is capable of being authorised by a third party 40; and indicate at a data repository 140 associated with an in-store security gate 50 sensitive to said security tag 120, that said security tag is no longer capable of initiating an alarm at said in-store security gate, only if the transaction was authorised by the third party 40. The security tag may comprise a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag.
Patent GB-2536832-A (GB)
Title: Concentrating solar energy system with liquid filled lens
Inventor: MIKE ROBINSON
IPC: F24S23/30
Filed: 2014-01-28
Abstract: A solar photovoltaic system including a liquid filled lens configured to concentrate sunlight for the generation of electricity, desalination of water or production of steam. The liquid lens and receiver are mounted on a tracker. The complete system is lightweight and modular with multiple configurations possible. The liquid lens is manufactured using an improved method. The use of a liquid lens for the purpose of collecting solar energy is novel.
Patent GB-2552317-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and Method for simultaneous transmit and receive network mode
Inventor: ADNAN AIJAZ
IPC: H04W88/08
Filed: 2016-07-15
Abstract: A network node such as an access point (AP) receives a request for data transmission (RTS) to the AP from a first wireless station (STA 1). The AP schedules a data transmission to the first wireless station (STA 1) or a second wireless station (STA 2) so that the end of the data transmission substantially coincides with or is earlier than the expected end of the data transmission from STA 1 to the AP. ACK messages can then be sent and received within the timeout period for reception. Other scenarios are also disclosed in which the network node is a wireless station STA. Also disclosed is a method of capability discovery by setting a flag or capability bit indicative of full duplex capability in a beacon, RTS control message PLCP and/or MAC header. Furthermore a full duplex AP supporting bidirectional full duplex and unidirectional full duplex transmission generates different headers for indicating type and target of the transmission to STAs depending on whether the STA is a half-duplex or full-duplex node.
Patent GB-2558305-A (GB)
Title: Controlling buoyancy when towing, lowering and raising submerged structures
Inventor: Marcel M Landwehr
IPC: F16L1/16
Filed: 2016-12-29
Abstract: A subsea structure 32 comprises: an elongate articulated buoyancy string 60 comprising a longitudinal series of buoyancy elements 62; and at least one elongate buoyancy holder 42 that is fixed relative to the structure 32 and is capable of housing the buoyancy string 60. The buoyancy of the structure 32 may be altered by moving the buoyancy string 60 along a transit path that extends along and within the buoyancy holder 42 and through an end opening of the buoyancy holder. The buoyancy string 60 passes through that end opening on being inserted into or withdrawn from the buoyancy holder 42. Back tension may be applied to the buoyancy string 60 during movement by a second cable 74. The ends of the buoyancy holder 42 may be curved away from the axis of the buoyancy holder 42. The buoyancy holder may be discontinuous or comprise apertures (58, figure 3) to facilitate pressure equalization. The subsea structure 32 may comprise one or more subsea pipelines 38.
Patent GB-2559127-A (GB)
Title: Media viewing method and apparatus
Inventor: MICHAEL KAVALLIEROU
IPC: G06F3/01
Filed: 2017-01-25
Abstract: An image display system such as a head mounted display (HMD) 700 with a view obtaining unit which obtains a main view and one or more secondary views 710, a motion information capturing unit or sensor 720 which captures information about the head movement of a user and an image display unit 730 which displays an image to the user in a portion of the main view dependent on the position and orientation of the users head. If the users head motion exceeds a threshold amount, then at least a portion of a secondary view is shown. The threshold amount may be in a direction perpendicular to that of the main axis of the main view. The system may have a view management unit 740 which defines relative positions of the main and secondary views (for example based on content or user settings) in a virtual space. The secondary views may display statistics, additional media or contextual information related to the main content on the main view. The secondary views may be displayed at the same time as or instead of the main view and may be an overlay of the main view or displayed in a split screen format.
Patent GB-2547118-A (GB)
Title: Interative greeting card
Inventor: SETH LARSON
IPC: B42D15/04
Filed: 2013-07-26
Abstract: An integral greeting card and game includes a multi-panel greeting card serving as a game board combined with a game piece 14 and launch mechanism 30A. The multi-panel greeting card may contain a sound module (18, 20, 22, figure 6) therein and a magnetic trigger (26, figure 6) contained and concealed below one or more of the multiple greeting card panels 11. The game piece may contain a magnet therein so that when the game piece comes into contact with the area of the greeting card above or proximate to the magnetic trigger, playback of an audio file is initiated. The game piece is communicative with an application downloaded to a digital touch screen device. The launch mechanism may be used to move the game piece onto the digital device touch screen. The game piece may activate the application once it is downloaded to the digital device. The game piece may contain a code written thereon for manually entering into the downloaded application on the digital device. The game piece may contain a digital watermark, QR code, or an augmented reality marker printed thereon or embedded therein.
Patent GB-2562047-A (GB)
Title: Electrical contact assembly for electroluminescent display
Inventor: MOAZZAM ALI
IPC: H01R12/70
Filed: 2017-05-02
Abstract: An electrical contact assembly for an electroluminescent display comprises a slot in a housing 220 for inserting a portion of an object 210. An electroluminescent display 212 and conducting tracks 214 are provided on a surface of the object. A battery and power controlling circuit are provided in the housing to supply electrical power. Biased ball contacts (350, Fig. 3) are provided in the housing to connect to conducting terminals 213 on the object. The balls may be biased by conductive springs (360, Fig. 3B) or by elastic blocks (360, Fig. 3A). A switch (370, Fig. 3) is preferably provided in the housing that operates to supply power to the ball contacts only when the object is inserted into the slot. The switch provides a safety mechanism to prevent electric shocks due to touching of the ball contacts. The object is preferably packaging, e.g. a cardboard box or a bottle, or a decoration item, e.g. a glass vial or picture frame. The display may be provided directly on the surface of the object or may be printed as a label for fixing to the object.
Patent GB-2563038-A (GB)
Title: Electrical system for use in a vehicle
Inventor: CHRISTOPHER HARRIES
IPC: B60T17/22
Filed: 2017-05-31
Abstract: A vehicle electrical system 10 comprises a controller 16 and electrically operable vehicle brake means. The electrical system comprises at least one vehicle electric load 28 including vehicle brake control means operable to selectively control the vehicle brake means to move between engaged and disengaged positions. The electrical system also comprises first and second batteries 26, 36 for providing electric power to the vehicle brake means 34 and the at least one vehicle electric load 28. In response to detection of a fault in the electrical system, the controller, via switches 18 & 20, electrically isolates the second battery 36 and the vehicle brake means, transmission park lock 34, from the first battery 26 and the at least one vehicle electric load 28, and the vehicle brake means 34 is configured to automatically assume the engaged position. The fault may be an electrical short or low voltage of the main battery.
Patent GB-2564671-A (GB)
Title: Subsea cutting assembly
Inventor: Patrick john crawford
IPC: E21B29/12
Filed: 2017-07-18
Abstract: A subsea cutting assembly with arms 30a, 30b connected to a frame 10 by a pivot 15, the arms pivotally transform between open and closed configurations and can receive a subsea structure between the arms, and subsequently close around it, the arms have first 31a,b and second portions 32a,b, each having an inner 34a,b and outer 35a,b face, the inner faces of the first portions of the arms are parallel to each other when the arms are closed, and the inner faces of the second portions are planar and disposed at 90 degrees or less relative to the inner faces of the first portions, and a blade 60 that moves with respect to the frame and cuts the subsea structure as it is held by the arms. The arms may be ram actuated and the second portion of one of the arms may form an anvil 37.
Patent GB-2555323-A (GB)
Title: Method, Device and system for multi-system priority scan
Inventor: XUN FEI
IPC: H04W4/10
Filed: 2015-06-26
Abstract: A multi-system priority scan process including maintaining, at a mobile station (MS), a scan list including channels associated with talkgroups, the talkgroups including one or more trunked radio system talkgroups and one or more conventional radio system talkgroups. The MS negotiates, with a trunked radio system, a working channel for a particular trunked radio system talkgroup out of the trunked radio system talkgroups, the working channel being a traffic channel that the trunked radio system will first attempt to assign a call for that talkgroup. During a subsequent scan for talkgroup for activity associated with the particular trunked radio system talkgroup, the MS switches to the working channel and determines if a carrier is present on the working channel, without switching to a control channel of the trunked radio system to scan for activity associated with the particular trunked radio system talkgroup.
Patent GB-2569576-A (GB)
Title: Audio generation system
Inventor: MARK BREUGLEMANS
IPC: G06T19/00
Filed: 2017-12-20
Abstract: An audio generation method comprising locating a virtual sound source in a virtual environment, detecting the real-world location and orientation of a peripheral 1200 and mapping it to a virtual position and orientation in the virtual environment. An indicated virtual sound source 1410 is then identified based on the peripheral, and audio corresponding to the sound source is output. Optionally, the sound is output through a HMD. Optionally, there is a virtual volume projecting from the peripheral, and the indicated object falls in the virtual volume. Optionally there may be restrictions on sound sources a user can listen to. Alternatively, a method comprising locating virtual sound receivers in a virtual environment and detecting the real-world location and orientation of a peripheral and mapping it to a virtual position and orientation in the virtual environment. A recipient is identified based on the mapped peripheral and the transmission of audio to the recipient.
Patent GB-2563318-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to animal enclosures
Inventor: JAMES TUTHILL
IPC: E04B1/344
Filed: 2017-01-23
Abstract: The panel comprises a first panel part 79, a second panel part 79 and a plurality of couplings (77, fig 22) for connecting an edge of said first panel part to an edge of said second panel part to form a larger composite panel. The panel also comprises a reinforcing bar 83, and a second plurality of couplings (89, fig 27) for connecting the bar to the panel parts to maintain the shape of said composite panel. The bar may be in the form of a rod with a pair of ribs extending generally orthogonally from both ends the rod. A plurality of panels may form an animal enclosure.
Patent GB-2559899-A (GB)
Title: Air-conditioning device
Inventor: KAZUHISA IWASAKI
IPC: F25B41/00
Filed: 2015-12-01
Abstract: An air-conditioning device comprising a control device, the control device being equipped with: a volume calculation unit which calculates the piping volume of the overall piping through which a refrigerant flows while outdoor units and indoor units are in heating operation; a frequency table in which discharge pressure, the differential pressure between the discharge pressure and suction pressure, and the piping volume have been associated with the resonance frequency of the overall piping through which the refrigerant flows; a frequency estimation unit which estimates the resonance frequency with reference to the frequency table on the basis of the piping volume calculated by the volume calculation unit, the discharge pressure, and the differential pressure between the discharge pressure and the suction pressure; and a condition setting unit which sets the range of the operational frequency of a compressor so as to restrain the operational frequency of the compressor from becoming the resonance frequency estimated by the frequency estimation unit.
Patent GB-2574597-A (GB)
Title: Quantum communication network
Inventor: ANDREW JAMES SHIELDS
IPC: H04L9/08
Filed: 2018-06-08
Abstract: A node 3 for a quantum communication network has a quantum transmitter 21 adapted to encode information on weak light pulses, a quantum receiver 23 adapted to decode information from weak light pulses and an optical switch 25. The optical switch has at least one input port and at least two output ports to selectively connect the quantum transmitter and receiver to at least one remote node. The switch may comprise a 1xN switch and Mx1 switch or an NxN switch. Two input ports may be connected by a fibre jump such that a received signal bypasses the receiver to be routed to a remote node. Also disclosed is a method of securely transmitting a key from a source node to a destination node via a sequence of N nodes by dividing the key into N parts and sending each part via a subset of the N nodes such that each part bypasses at least one of the N nodes.
Patent GB-2566803-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to stairlifts
Inventor: NIGEL TITCHENER
IPC: B66B9/08
Filed: 2018-07-31
Abstract: The invention describes a method of ensuring the integrity of a stairlift installation constructed from re-used components. Data representative of defined fixed parameters of a stairlift rail 8 is stored in a stairlift memory and then compared with data sensed in real time. A stairlift carriage 7 may be disabled in the event sensed data varies from stored data. The defined fixed parameters which are monitored may be the length of stairlift rail 8, the inclination of rail 8 at a defined position along rail 8, a position along a rail 8 of a bend 13, 15, 18 or an angle of a bend 13, 15, 18 or a sequence of angles of bends 13, 15, 18 or bend types. The parameters may be defined during design of the stairlift rail 8 or may be established during a defined number or journeys of the carriage 7 along the rail 8 and may be transferred to or programmed into the carriage 7 during installation of the carriage 7.
Patent GB-2567056-A (GB)
Title: Jig apparatus for use in forming holes in a workpiece in a guided manner and a method of use of the same
Inventor: DANIEL PIKARSKI
IPC: B27C3/06
Filed: 2018-08-16
Abstract: The apparatus is for use with a drill bit 36 which is driven to rotate so as to form a hole in a workpiece 24. The apparatus includes guide means 34 with which the drill bit is located and a body 18 with which the workpiece is located. The guide means is movable with respect to the body to cause the drill bit to be advanced along a path which includes an arc portion and, as it is driven to rotate, move into the work piece to form the hole. The apparatus is used in a method of forming a hole with a motor driving the drill bit and first and second jaws clamping the workpiece. The body may include an alignment fence (12, Figure 2f). The drill bit may approach the workpiece through an aperture in the body and/or a jaw of clamping means located on the body. The apparatus may include clamping means with a first jaw located against one face of the workpiece and an adjustable jaw assembly on an opposing face.
Patent GB-2564976-A (GB)
Title: Shared experiences in panoramaic video
Inventor: Brian C Lowry
IPC: H04N21/81
Filed: 2017-03-17
Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, using a camera, at least one panoramic video; determining, using an electronic device, a spatial location in the panoramic video associated with a selection by at least one viewer; obtaining, at the electronic device, a request by the at least one viewer to share the spatial location with at least one other viewer; and sending, using the electronic device, information associated with the spatial location to the at least one other viewer. Other aspects are described and claimed.
Patent GB-2568803-A (GB)
Title: Lifting and lowering apparatus
Inventor: KAZUO ITOH
IPC: B65G47/64
Filed: 2018-09-28
Abstract: A lifting and lowering apparatus 1 includes a plurality of shelf members 6, 7 and a lifting and lowering mechanism 8. Shelf members 6, 7 respectively include placing tables (A, B of Fig 2 and also L1-5 and R1-5 in Fig 1) positioned an different heights and each provided with a conveying unit (10) in the form station devices 3, 5. Shelf members 6, 7 are lifted and lowered by mechanism 8, whereby placing table (A or B) of shelf member 6 ( or 7) which is adjusted to be at the same height as the placing table (B or A) of the other shelf member 7 (or 6) so as to allow an object to be transferred from the placing table of one of the shelf members to the placing table of the other shelf member. Shelf members 6, 7 are again lifted and lowered to adjust the placing table (B or A) of the other shelf member 7 (or 6) to be at the same height as the placing table (A or B) of shelf member 6 (or 7) respectively to allow transfer of an object on placing table (A or B) which is positioned at a different height from the previous placing table. Other components shown include load sensor 62, outer frame 30, roller and guide 31, 32, sprockets 35, 36, wired rod 40 from which shelf members 6, 7 are hung. The conveyor device 6 of each shelf is capable of movement in two directions.
Patent GB-2579222-A (GB)
Title: Electromagnetic device with thermally conductive former
Inventor: PETER JAMES HANDY
IPC: H01F27/28
Filed: 2018-11-26
Abstract: An electromagnetic device 10 comprises a permeable magnetic core 12 having a plurality of legs 14a,b such as an E-core, a coil former or bobbin 22 with a thermal conductivity equal to or higher than 0.5 W/mK, and at least one winding 28 wound on the former, formed from a plurality of turns of coil 48. The former provides at least one additional thermal path between the winding and the core for heat generated in the winding. A further thermally conductive material such as a silicone loaded gap filler may be located in between the core, winding or former to form at least a portion of the additional thermal path. A layer of thermally conductive material 34 may be positioned on an exterior leg of the core and may be coupled to a cold wall 32. The former may have distal ends (238, Fig. 4) retaining the core and comprising pins (252, Fig. 4) for mounting on a circuit board. A method for cooling an electrical device having electrically conductive windings is also provided.
Patent GB-2565950-A (GB)
Title: Modular coiled tubing bottom hole assembly
Inventor: JOHN LESLIE WISINGER JR
IPC: E21B47/01
Filed: 2016-07-14
Abstract: A system and method to minimize trips in a wellbore during coiled tubing operations by simultaneously deploying on coiled tubing as part of the bottom hole assembly a wireline tool and an intervention tool. The wireline tool includes a flow through passage to permit a working fluid to flow through the wireline tool to the intervention tool during operations. The intervention tool may be adjusted in real time based on the measurements from the wireline tool.