baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2394766-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle headlamp apparatus and method of setting optical axis position
Inventor: BABA JUNJI
IPC: B60Q1/12
Filed: 2003-09-17
Abstract: Provided is a reference angle position setting means for setting an optical axis at a reference angle position (direction of going straight ahead: 0{) by detecting the maximum deflection angles when swivel lamps 3R and 3L are pivoted in one direction and in the opposite direction and gaining the reference angle position based on both the maximum deflection angles detected. Projector lamps are pivoted in one direction toward the reference angle position so as to set an optical axis position through the steps of detecting a first maximum deflection angle by pivoting each projector 30 lamp in one direction until it is no longer able to pivot in one direction, detecting a second maximum deflection angle by pivoting a headlamp in the opposite direction until it is no longer able to pivot in the opposite direction and computing the reference angle position of the irradiation optical axis from the first and second maximum deflection angles. Thus it is possible to not only set off the deflection produced in the projector lamps and the like but also accurately set the optical axis at the reference angle position at the time of bringing the projector lamps into contact with stoppers on both sides.
Patent GB-2393742-A (GB)
Title: Interlocking building brick
Inventor: GILES STEVEN KEITH
IPC: E04B2/02
Filed: 2003-09-29
Abstract: An interlockable building brick 1 having on a lower face two projections 4 and on an upper face two depressions 3. The brick can be assembled with other bricks using a jointing mortar and the provision of a shoulder 6 in each depression 3 ensures that the brick major faces will then be spaced apart from one other to leave a line of exposed mortar between the bricks.
Patent GB-2393295-A (GB)
Title: Information replication system having enhanced error detection and recovery
Inventor: MUTALIK MADHAV
IPC: G06F15/173
Filed: 2002-05-29
Abstract: An information recovery system (100) includes mountable data volume replications (110) that can be examined for enhanced error detection and correction. An information recovery system provides mounting of partial database replications, such as one or more selected table spaces. With this arrangement, a user can select tablespaces for recovery from a replication of an original database.
Patent GB-2410077-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchanger coil assembly within a tank and fluid in the coil communicating with a solar panel for heating fluid in the tank
Inventor: BOYLE RICHARD JAMES
IPC: F24S90/00
Filed: 2004-01-05
Abstract: A heat exchange coil assembly fitted through an opening in a tank 7 heats a fluid in the tank 7 by passing a fluid that is heated by solar radiation through coils 1, 2 of the assembly. The coil may have a smaller diameter coil 1 and a larger diameter coil 2 larger than the hole so that it may be fitted in the tank 7 by screwing into the tank 7. The coil assembly 1 may have an immersion heater or additional heat exchange coil 4 and a thermostat 5. The coils may be made from any suitable material, diameter or material thickness and any suitable number of coils to define any suitable length may be used. The coil assembly may be used in existing or new tanks and may be removable to permit serving and maintenance.
Patent GB-2394014-A (GB)
Title: Turbocharger apparatus
Inventor: LEAVESLEY MALCOLM GEORGE
IPC: F01D17/14
Filed: 2002-09-06
Abstract: Variable turbocharger apparatus (2) comprising a housing (4), a compressor (6) mounted for rotation in the housing (4), a turbine (8) mounted for rotation in the housing (4), a first inlet (10) for enabling air to be conducted to the compressor, an outlet (12) for enabling air from the compressor to be conducted to an engine, a second inlet (14) for enabling exhaust gases from the engine to be conducted to the turbine (8) in order to rotate the turbine (8), a chamber (16) which surrounds the turbine (8) and which receives the exhaust gases from the second inlet (14) before the exhaust gases are conducted to the turbine (8), and a bearing assembly (18) for permitting the rotation of the turbine (8), the variable turbocharger apparatus (2) comprising fixed vanes (22) which are mounted in the chamber (16) and which are for accurately directing exhaust gases on to the turbine (8), a piston (24) which is slidable and which is positioned between the vanes and the turbine (8), and control means (26) which is connected to the piston (24) and which is for controlling the sliding movement of the piston (24), the piston (24) having an end (28) which is nearest the bearing assembly (18) and which defines a gap (30), the size of the gap (30) being variable in dependence upon the sliding of the piston (24) under the control of the control means (26), and the size of the gap (30) being effective to control the amount of the exhaust gases that act on the turbine (8) thereby accurately controlling the speed of rotation of the turbine (8) and thereby the amount of air conducted by the compressor through the outlet (12) to the engine, and the end (28) of the piston (24) being such that it has a flange (91) which extends radially outwardly and which is provided with slots (123, 127) for receiving the vanes (22).
Patent GB-2411392-A (GB)
Title: Compact disk package
Inventor: LETTEN DAVID
IPC: B65D85/57
Filed: 2004-02-26
Abstract: A storage package for a recording medium configured to resemble a book includes a folded, two-ply cardboard panel attached to first and second plastic, recording medium-holding components (12, 13), each including a planar surface having means on one face for holding a recording disk. Upstanding wall portions on one of the components (12, 13) nest within the corresponding wall portions of the other component when the components are closed together. Recesses (80) are provided in the planar surface of each component adjacent the periphery thereof to provide planar surfaces on the underside thereof for adhesively securing to the cardboard panel. A security member (90) is releasably engageable with the first and second components (12, 13) to secure them in an assembled configuration.
Patent GB-2411639-A (GB)
Title: A stairlift having a pair of pivoting parallel linkages
Inventor: BAILEY CHRIS
IPC: B66F7/06
Filed: 2004-03-04
Abstract: A stairlift <B>10</B> comprises a base frame <B>22</B>, pivoting linkage, a platform linear actuator <B>50</B> and platform <B>12</B>. The pivoting linkage is a pair of parallel links, <B>24, 26</B> pivoted to the platform <B>12</B> and to the base <B>22</B>. The linear actuator <B>50</B> moves the platform <B>12</B> from a base position to an elevated position. In the base position, a front edge <B>14</B> of the platform is adjacent to a front end of the base. When in the elevated position the front edge <B>14</B> of the platform <B>12</B> is forward the front end of the base. The radius of curvature of the linkage is less than the distance between the front pivot <B>34</B> of the linkage and the front edge <B>14</B> of the platform <B>12</B>. The stairlift <B>10</B> may be provided with front, back and side guards to prevent a wheel chair rolling off the platform <B>12</B>. The stairlift <B>10</B> may be disposed in a pit <B>40</B> which may be covered by a surface with warning indicia when the pit <B>40</B> is not occupied by components of the stairlift. The stairlift <B>10</B> may have pressure sensors on the platform.
Patent GB-2397200-A (GB)
Title: Optimization of a heterogeneous virtual wireless network
Inventor: CURNYN JON
IPC: H04W4/00
Filed: 2002-09-25
Abstract: The present invention provides a virtual wireless network (VWN) system capable of integrating disparate wireless networks. The system includes a plurality of data stores containing information about Users (11), devices (12), services (13), policies (15) and network configuration (14). This information is used by a VWN Processing Engine (10) to establish and operate the network and to optimise the services provided across the VWN.
Patent GB-2413182-A (GB)
Title: An NMR method for analysing a sample
Inventor: LEVITT MALCOLM HARRIS
IPC: G01R33/46
Filed: 2004-04-16
Abstract: An NMR method for analysing a sample, the method comprising: ```introducing the sample to relaxors to produce a microscopic mixture, ```reducing the temperature of said mixture; and ```performing an NMR measurement on said mixture, wherein said relaxors comprise two sections: a rapidly rotating molecular section; and a cage which protects said molecular section and is configured to be chemically stable with said sample. The cage may be a fullerene or modified fullerene.
Patent GB-2404553-A (GB)
Title: Handle assembly for a power tool
Inventor: STONES KEVIN
IPC: H01H9/06
Filed: 2004-05-17
Abstract: A handle assembly for a power tool is disclosed, in which the power tool has a housing, a motor provided in the housing, an output shaft adapted to be caused by said motor to execute reciprocating motion, and a blade assembly 5 extending from the housing along a first axis (A-A figure 5). The handle assembly comprises a front handle 6, a rear handle 7 integral with the front handle 6 and a mounting portion adapted to be mounted to the housing of the tool, wherein the rear handle 7 is displaced from the plane (A-A) of the blade assembly 5 in use. As a result of this, the knuckles of the hand of the user that is gripping rear handle 7 are raised away from the surface of the object being cut. This provides the advantage that the user's knuckles avoid any grazing or cutting resulting from contact with the object, or with the ground when carrying out low cutting.
Patent GB-2417157-A (GB)
Title: Extracting essential information from an incoming voice message.
Inventor: LEDERER THOMAS
IPC: H04M3/53
Filed: 2004-08-11
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus means for extracting essential information from an incoming voice message, comprising the following steps: <UL ST="-"> <LI>converting an incoming voice message (1) into a textual form (3), <LI>determining essential information of the message from the textual form and <LI>providing the determined essential information (5) to the user to whom the incoming voice message has been addressed. </UL> The determined essential information can be provided as a subject reference, a synopsis for direct access or a content-related indexing of a voice message.
Patent GB-2406392-A (GB)
Title: State machine function block with a user modifiable output configuration database
Inventor: LAW GARY K
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2004-09-03
Abstract: A control system, a safety system, etc., within a process plant may each use one or more state machine function blocks that can be easily integrated into a function block diagram programming environment. Such a state machine function block may include one or more inputs, which may or may not cause a state machine implemented by the state machine function block to change states. The state machine function block may also include a plurality of outputs. Output configuration data associated with the function block may indicate values of the outputs of the function block for each of the states of the state machine. The state machine function block may use this output configuration data to determine its outputs when in a particular state.
Patent GB-2407822-A (GB)
Title: Oligodendrocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells for remyelination and treatment of spinal cord injury
Inventor: NISTOR GABRIEL L
IPC: A61K35/12
Filed: 2003-07-11
Abstract: This invention provides populations of neural cells bearing markers of glial cells, such as oligodendrocytes and their precursors. The populations are generated by differentiating pluripotent stem cells such as human embryonic stem cells under conditions that promote enrichment of cells with the desired phenotype or functional capability. Various combinations of differentiation factors and mitogens can be used to produce cell populations bearing markers of oligodendrocyte precursor cells. Upon further differentiation form complex processes characteristic of mature oligodendrocytes. The cells are capable of forming myelin sheaths, and can be used therapeutically improve function of the central nervous system.
Patent GB-2411918-A (GB)
Title: Sealing system
Inventor: PATEL DINESH R
IPC: E21B33/10
Filed: 2005-03-10
Abstract: A sealing system comprises an inflatable bladder 26 and a swellable material 24 in functional association with the bladder 26. The swellable material 24 swells when in contact with a triggering fluid and it may be located on the exterior of the bladder 26. Also disclosed is a sealing system having a solid rubber seal proximate the swellable material and which is energised by a piston. Also disclosed is a sealing system in which the triggering fluid is located in a container within the swellable material, and a sealing system in which the swellable material is activated by electrical polarization or optical energy. A system in which the swellable material dissolves when it comes into contact with a dissolving fluid is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2413167-A (GB)
Title: Electric pulse pendulum power generator
Inventor: WILLIS JAMES DAVID
IPC: F03G3/06
Filed: 2005-04-15
Abstract: A method an apparatus for producing usable energy characterised by utilising oscillatory movement of a pendulum 1 in combination with at least one of a number of different means 7 for producing usable output energy at such a level that at least a portion of the output energy may be utilised to energise each of two actuators 6 which maintain the oscillatory movement of the pendulum 1 by providing a kick at each end of the swing arc of the pendulum 1. The energy producing means 7 may comprise hydraulic means, pneumatic means, electromagnetic means and/or mechanical means.
Patent GB-2410582-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus to manage cache bypassing
Inventor: WU YOUFENG
IPC: G06F12/08
Filed: 2003-09-12
Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage bypassing of a first cache are disclosed. In one such method, a load instruction having an expected latency greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold is identified. A request is then made to schedule the identified load instruction to have a perdetermined latency. The software program is then scheduled. An actual latency associated with the load instruction in the scheduled software program is then compared to the predetermined latency. If the actual latency is greater than or equal to the predetermined latency, the load instruction is marked to bypass the first cache.
Patent GB-2426075-A (GB)
Title: Thin-type spherical lens having a discontinuous face
Inventor: LUNG TING HUA
IPC: G02B3/08
Filed: 2005-05-12
Abstract: A thin-type spherical lens 100, fabricated according to the result of the virtual procedures of removing a disc-shaped portion from each of a plurality of lens bodies with different radii of curvature of light-exiting faces 120, which has the optical axis 140 of the lens body as its central axis, and assembling the preserved portions thereof to form a plurality of grooves 130 as the light-exiting faces 120, which might be equivalent to the grooves of the conventional Fresnel lens, wherein the depths or the widths of the plurality of grooves 130 can be different, and the curvature radii of the plurality of light-exiting faces 120 are designed to be different so that the lights emerging from the plurality of light-exiting faces 120 are all focussed on an identical point. The present invention can, as compared to the conventional approach, reduce the lens thickness when the radius of the aperture on the lens is increased.
Patent GB-2430090-A (GB)
Title: RF synthesizer
Inventor: LARSEN SOREN PETER
IPC: H04H20/67
Filed: 2005-09-08
Abstract: An RF (radio frequency) synthesizer (200) includes a VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) (120) operable to provide an output signal at a desired frequency, a phase locked loop (130) including (i) the VCO; (ii) a variable frequency divider (114) operable to receive an output signal of the VCO and to provide a feedback signal which is divided in frequency relative to the output signal of the VCO; and (iii) a phase frequency detector (110) operable to receive the feedback signal produced by the VCO and to compare a phase and frequency of the feedback signal with the phase and frequency of a reference signal; and is characterised by (iv) a further control loop (230) inside the phase locked loop (130); and (v) a phase rotator (205) connected to an output of the VCO and operable to equalise a phase error of an output signal produced by the VCO, the further control loop being connected to the phase rotator to provide a control signal to the phase rotator. The synthesizer may beneficially include an integrated circuit which incorporates at least part of the VCO, the phase locked loop and the further control loop. Also described is a RE transmitter or receiver, e.g. for use in a base transceiver station, which incorporates the synthesizer.
Patent GB-2432616-A (GB)
Title: Animal portal comprising two part pivotably connected door and separate folding shutter
Inventor: BROOKFIELD COLIN RAYMOND
IPC: E06B9/06
Filed: 2005-11-29
Abstract: A pet flap comprises a free swinging door 7 of rigid construction that is hinged at its top and also hinged laterally at its centre 3. A rigid shutter 1 is used for closing access through the doorway by sliding the shutter, down through a vertical slot in the door's framework. The shutter may be foldable at two hinged places so that it can be placed in a parking slot when not in use.
Patent GB-2422345-A (GB)
Title: Manufacturing a composite part comprising at least two different appearances or feels
Inventor: DURIEZ DOMINIQUE
IPC: B29C69/02
Filed: 2005-12-16
Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing process for a composite part comprising at least two different appearances and/or feels in the region of at least two apparent surface zones, said part consisting of a thermoplastic skin and a material covering the internal side of the skin. Process characterised in that it basically consists of providing a skin (3) with said at least two different appearances and/or feels in the region of the surface zones (2, 2', 2'') concerned, a localised deformation in the form of a groove or recess (5) of said skin (3) being present at each interface between two surface zones (2, 2', 2'') of different appearance and/or feel, and one (2) of said zones of each pair of zones (2, 2'; 2, 2'') being recessed in relation to the other zone, of arranging said treated and preformed skin (3) in a duplicate moulding mould, of acting on the or each recessed surface zone (2) with a view to displacing it to bring the ridge or each ridge (6) of this zone (2) flush with the or a corresponding ridge (6', 6'') opposite the or one of the adjacent or contiguous surface zone(s) (2', 2''), thus conferring on said skin (3) its final form, then of duplicate moulding the internal face of said skin to produce the composite part (1).
Patent GB-2435510-A (GB)
Title: Enzyme detection product and methods
Inventor: DAVIS PAUL JAMES
IPC: C12Q1/37
Filed: 2006-02-23
Abstract: An enzyme detection product (1) for detecting the presence of an enzyme in a sample. The product (1) comprises: a reaction zone (16) for receiving the sample; a visualisation zone (10) for presenting a signal in response to the detection of the activity of the enzyme; and a membrane (11). The membrane (11) is interposable between the reaction zone (16) and the visualisation zone (10) and prevents passage from the reaction zone (16) to the visualisation zone (10) of the components having a size greater than a threshold size. The reaction zone (16) comprises a reactant capable of reacting with the enzyme in order to generate a reaction product having a size less than a threshold size. Preferably the enzyme detected is a protease and the reagent capable of reacting with the protease is the BANA peptide. A method of detecting the presence of the enzyme is also claimed.
Patent GB-2425746-A (GB)
Title: Zero contact flat bed die cutting
Inventor: MCKELLAR JOHN
IPC: B31B50/20
Filed: 2006-03-30
Abstract: Using Zero Contact Flat Bed Die Cutting, the top surface of the Cutting Plate/Platen of a Flat Bed Die Cutting Machine is etched or engraved by laser or other method, to create a "female" channel. The channel should be sufficiently deep and wide, to accommodate, without any contact, the male cutting blades of the Cutting Forme being used. (Drawing 2) The Cutting Plate/Platen can be of a single or multi layered composition and should be affixed and registered at the same time that the cutting Forme is loaded and located. Using centre lines, or any other method of registering the two, the female channel must register with and accommodate, the male cuffing blades to affect a clean cut of the required design of die cut blank or shape.
Patent GB-2429822-A (GB)
Title: Spacers for a liquid crystal display panel
Inventor: LI DE-JIUN
IPC: G02F1/01
Filed: 2006-04-25
Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel, including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a spacer is provided. The second substrate is disposed over the first substrate, and the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spacer is also disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, for sustaining a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spacer is composed of a plurality of support structures seated on the same base, and each support structure has a first portion and a second portion. The first portions of the adjacent support structures are connected with each other, and the second portions of the adjacent support structures are spaced out a distance. The spacer can disperse external pressures so as to improve the yield in assembling process of the liquid crystal display. In another embodiment, the spacers have protrusions.
Patent GB-2441524-A (GB)
Title: Latched container lid
Inventor: PERIGNON NICOLAS
IPC: B65D45/00
Filed: 2006-09-07
Abstract: The lid 20 comprises a generally planar lid body 22 defining first and second lid surfaces 24, 26, where a latch member 28 is mounted on the first lid surface 24 and the actuator 32 for the latch is mounted on the second surface 26. Actuator and latch are connected via an aperture 34 in the lid body which is surrounded by a raised lip formation 36 that prevents fluid ingress from the outside. The actuator and the corresponding latch member include mutually co-operable formations, in the form of slots 42, 54 and protrusions 40, 48 that convert rotary movement of the actuator into linear movement of the latch member.