baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2486298-A (GB)
Title: Hand tool for forming a hole in the ground surface
Inventor: SMITH ROBERT FREDERICK
IPC: A01B1/16
Filed: 2011-09-30
Abstract: The hand tool 10 includes a support body (11, Figure 3) which defines a collection chamber 25 for receiving ground material. An operating handle 13 extends from the support body for rotating the support body about a longitudinal axis 15 and advancing into the ground material. The support body includes first 17 and second 20 cutter assemblies. The first cutter assembly 17 has at least one blade 18 which extends inwards towards the longitudinal axis from the end 16 of the support body furthest from the operating handle. In use, rotation of the support body results in the or each blade cutting into the ground material and directing the ground material into the collection chamber. The second cutter assembly 20 has at least one blade 21 which extends outwards from the support body, in a direction away from the longitudinal axis, at a position aligned with an opening (24, Figure 3). Rotation of the support body results in the or each blade 21 cutting into the ground material which is thereby directed through the opening and into the collection chamber 25.
Patent GB-2486314-A (GB)
Title: Diamond field effect transistor
Inventor: LANG RICHARD JOHN
IPC: H01L29/16
Filed: 2011-11-30
Abstract: The device comprising a delta doped layer 222 formed between a lower intrinsic diamond layer 204 and an aluminium oxide gate dielectric layer 218. The delta layer may be formed by etching a thick epitaxial diamond layer in the gate region 210. Alternatively, a thin delta layer is epitaxially grown and masked in the gate region prior to growing the adjacent non-delta source/drain regions 208. The doping concentration in the non-delta source/drain regions may be varied throughout the layer to provide highly doped source/drain contact regions.
Patent GB-2486569-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle entertainment system
Inventor: MITCHELL CIARAN
IPC: B60R11/02
Filed: 2011-12-14
Abstract: A vehicle entertainment system has a mounting bracket 2 for coupling to a dashboard of a vehicle, a vehicle seat, its headrest 10 if present, headrest mounting posts 9, or into an arm-rest. A mounting arm 7 is mounted for rotation relative to the mounting bracket about a main horizontal axis (6, figure 9). A monitor 3 has a front side and a rear side 29, and may include a monitor screen on the front side, audio system controls on the front side, audio system controls on the rear side, and a slot 30 adapted for a tablet computer 35 to dock therein with the screen of the tablet computer exposed on the rear side. The monitor is rotationally mounted about the main axis for adjustment of the angle of presentation of its front or rear side to suit a user. The monitor is coupled to the mounting arm by a pivot defining a pivot axis (26) extending substantially at 45Â° to the main axis relative to the mounting arm. As a result, a user may select between presentation to the user of at least one of the monitor functions, in each case in a selected one of portrait and landscape (figure 1) modes.
Patent GB-2489073-A (GB)
Title: Tidal turbine with tapered duct
Inventor: TAYLOR CAMPBELL MCKAY
IPC: F03B13/26
Filed: 2012-02-07
Abstract: A floating tidal conversion unit includes a floating device which is circular or ship shaped, and has a tapered converging duct or funnel leading from the inlet to a turbine. There may be a plate or apron APR extending downwards from the inlet to guide deeper water up into the duct. The turbine may be a water wheel fitted with half spherical cups, fitted in one or two circumferential rows around a disc. The cups have a small exit aperture with a cross member (figures 3a, 3b). The spherical cups may be fixed, angled or pivoted. The unit is either moored to the ocean bed, attached to a buoy, or to a central mast with a rotating device or ring which permits vertical and swivel movement. The unit may transmit energy to a shore based generator by radio waves RDY/GN.
Patent GB-2486129-A (GB)
Title: System and method for generating and employing short length iris codes
Inventor: CONNELL JONATHAN H
IPC: G06V10/771
Filed: 2010-07-30
Abstract: A system and method for generating compact iris representations based on a database (502) of iris images includes providing full-length iris codes (504) for iris images in a database, where the full-length iris code includes a plurality of portions corresponding to circumferential rings in an associated iris image. Genuine and imposter score distributions are computed using a processor (512) for the full-length iris codes, and code portions (514) are identified that have a contribution that provides separation between imposter and genuine distributions relative to a threshold. A correlation between remaining code portions is measured. A subset of code portions having low correlations within the subset is generated to produce a compact iris representation.
Patent GB-2490015-A (GB)
Title: Health information communications system with customized quality of service (QoS) for different kinds of medical data
Inventor: ANNO MICHAEL JOSEPH DELL
IPC: A61B5/00
Filed: 2012-03-29
Abstract: A health information communication system 100 includes one or more medical sensors 208 providing one or more health information data types, a patient communications device 102 including a patient quality of service (QoS) manager 224 and a specialist communications device 108 including a specialist QoS manager, the patient and specialist devices communicatively coupled over a network 110. The patient QoS manager specifies a set of data management parameters for transporting at least some of the health information and modifies at least some of the health information into value factored health information. For example, a subset of electrocardiogram (EKG) measurements may be a high priority and can be encoded and/or compressed according to network channel characteristics for transmission over the network 110 to the specialist device. The patient QoS manager dynamically specifies the set of data quality management parameters based at least in part on measured channel characteristics. The specialist device may provide the measured channel characteristics to the patient device.
Patent GB-2494228-A (GB)
Title: Utilizing gas flows in mass spectrometers
Inventor: FRANZEN JOCHEN
IPC: H01J49/00
Filed: 2010-11-15
Abstract: The invention relates to ions guided by gas flows in mass spectrometers, particularly in RF multipole systems, and to RF quadrupole mass filters and their operation with gas flows in tandem mass spectrometers. The invention provides a tandem mass spectrometer in which the RF quadrupole mass filter is operated at vacuum pressures in the medium vacuum pressure regime, utilizing a gas flow to drive the ions are through the mass filter. Vacuum pressures between 0.5 to 10 pascal are maintained in the mass filter. The mass filter may be enclosed by a narrow enclosure to guide the gas flow. The quadrupole mass filter may be followed by an RF multipole system, operated at the same vacuum pressure, serving as fragmentation cell to fragment the selected parent ions. The fragmentation cell may be enclosed by the same enclosure which already encloses the mass filter, so the ions may be driven by the same gas flow at the same vacuum pressure, greatly simplifying the required vacuum pumping system in tandem mass spectrometers. There are many other applications utilizing gas flows including supersonic gas jets in mass spectrometry.
Patent GB-2490410-A (GB)
Title: Ion mobility spectrometers with enhanced resolution
Inventor: PARK MELVIN ANDREW
IPC: G01N27/62
Filed: 2012-04-25
Abstract: The invention relates to ion mobility spectrometers 42, 52 based on gases pushing entrained ions 43, 44, 53, 54 against and over electrical field barriers. The invention provides ion mobility spectrometers with electric field barriers having a plateau 40-41 of slightly increasing height along the axis of the spectrometer, delivering mobility spectra of highest resolution with moderately fast spectrum acquisition. Alternately, the spectrometers may have electric barriers of constant height 50-51, but with gas flows decreasing in velocity along the axis of the spectrometer. A slightly curved plateau generates electric barriers, the height of which changes radially. This effect can be used to compensate for parabolic gas velocity profiles inside tubes, further enhancing the mobility resolution.
Patent GB-2493595-A (GB)
Title: Wheelchair with leg restraining straps and method of construction
Inventor: JESSOP DAVID
IPC: A61F5/37
Filed: 2012-06-12
Abstract: A wheelchair 200 and a method of providing a wheelchair, having wheels 110 and a seat 140 comprises two separate load-bearing straps 210 each operable to respectively restrain one leg 250 of a user on the seat, and a plurality of anchor points 214/216 each operable to anchor a respective end of a strap to the wheelchair, wherein the anchor points for each load-bearing strap are located on the same side of the wheelchair as the respective leg that the strap restrains. The anchor points may be orientated to receive the load bearing straps in a substantially vertical position. In a first embodiment the first anchor point may be positioned between the respective leg of the user and the wheel adjacent that leg, and the lateral position of the second anchor point is positioned substantially equidistant between the wheels. In a second embodiment, a further anchor point is positioned on the opposite side of the wheelchair to the respective leg that the load bearing strap restrains.
Patent GB-2494542-A (GB)
Title: Reducing store-hit-loads in an out-of-order processor
Inventor: KONIGSBURG BRIAN
IPC: G06F9/38
Filed: 2012-09-11
Abstract: A technique for reducing store-hit-loads in an out-of-order processor includes storing a store address of a store instruction associated with a store-hit-load (SH L) pipeline flush in an SHL entry of SHL table 211 in instruction fetch unit (IFU) 212. In response to detecting another SHL pipeline flush for the store address, a current count of a counter associated with the SHL entry is updated by circuit 213 of IFU 212. In response to the current count associated with the SHL entry reaching a first terminal count, subsequent fetched instructions with the same address are marked by circuit 213 as an SHL risk when IFU 212 provides the fetched instructions to instruction decode unit (IDU) 214. In response to IDU 214 determining an SHL risk for a store instruction received for decoding, the IDU 214 modifies one or more bits of a micro-operation associated with the store instruction to create a dependency for the store instruction such that execution of a younger load instruction with a load address that overlaps the store address stalls until the store instruction executes.
Patent GB-2506390-A (GB)
Title: Controlling resource usage in a wireless communication network and autonomous denials between a user equipment and a network entity
Inventor: TURTINEN SAMULI
IPC: H04W72/12
Filed: 2012-09-27
Abstract: An apparatus for controlling resource usage in a wireless communications network and controlling autonomous denials between a user equipment and a network entity is disclosed. A system frame number associated with the network entity is used as the basis for generating an indicator for the start of a time period. The indicator is then transmitted to the user equipment, which is adapted to respond to receipt of the indicator by configuring the user equipment to perform no more than a predetermined number of autonomous denials during the time period. The number of unsuccessful transmissions during the time period is then monitored by the network entity, and resource usage within the wireless communications network is selectively adapted on the basis of the monitoring.
Patent GB-2512563-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for encoding an image into a video bitstream and decoding corresponding video bitstream with weighted residual predictions
Inventor: GISQUET CHRISTOPHE
IPC: H04N19/176
Filed: 2013-01-04
Abstract: Method and device for encoding an image according to a scalable encoding (SVC) scheme having an enhancement layer and a reference (or base) layer. The method comprises obtaining a block predictor candidate for predicting a coding unit within the enhancement layer and an associated first residual block corresponding to the prediction 5.1. A block predictor is determined in the reference layer that is co-located with the obtained block predictor candidate in the enhancement layer 5.2. The determined block predictor in the reference layer is used to determine a second residual block that is associated with a coding unit in the reference layer that is co-located with the coding unit in the enhancement layer 5.3. Finally a residual block is determined for the coding unit of the enhancement layer that corresponds to the difference between the first and the second residual blocks. A weighting factor is applied to at least one element among the obtained block predictor candidate, the determined block predictor and the reference layer residual block. Also disclosed is corresponding decoding method and device. The invention gives better handling of differences between enhancement layer motion and motion of the co-located block in the reference layer.
Patent GB-2500296-A (GB)
Title: Determining intended aspect ratio for display of video
Inventor: KNEE MICHAEL JAMES
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2013-01-15
Abstract: The intended display aspect-ratio for video is determined automatically by analyzing an image to identify image blocks resulting from prior block-based processing of the video; comparing horizontal and vertical dimensions of those image blocks with horizontal and vertical dimensions of the image, with black border regions excluded as necessary; and determining from that comparison a display aspect ratio for the video.
Patent GB-2498678-A (GB)
Title: Chain and flight conveyor
Inventor: O'NEIL MICHAEL L
IPC: F16G13/06
Filed: 2011-10-20
Abstract: A chain driven by two sprockets spaced a short distance apart along their common axial centerline. The chain includes elongated pins that extend beyond the outer surfaces of the chain link plates, on both sides, by a distance about equal to the width of the spaced apart sprockets. The chain is aligned midway between the sprockets, and the sprocket teeth drive on the extended portion of the chain pins. Where a flight is attached to the chain links, the pins are extended further, to fit into the indentations or holes in the flights. This provides an exposed length of each pin in alignment with the sprocket on each side for driving purposes. The chain has a piece extending between the plates to reduce the likelihood of a pin extending further outside of one side plate or the other. A shoulder on the pin further reduces the likelihood of this happening.
Patent GB-2516955-A (GB)
Title: Coulter
Inventor: WEALLEANS SHAUN
IPC: A01C7/20
Filed: 2013-08-08
Abstract: A disc coulter for an agricultural distribution machine such as a seed drilling apparatus comprises a soil working disc 1 and a coulter formation provided in association with the disc, wherein the coulter formation comprises a mounting portion 3 mountable in fixed position relative to the disc and a tip portion 5 mounted upon a receiving surface of the mounting portion by means of at least three adjustable fastenings 7 which may include compressible spacers 4. An agricultural distribution machine having a distribution array comprising a laterally extending array of such disc coulters in distributed along a supporting beam extending transversely of an intended direction of forward motion of the distribution machine and supported on a chassis frame is also described.
Patent GB-2502230-A (GB)
Title: A cryptographic system and method
Inventor: SLOAN KEVIN
IPC: G06F21/60
Filed: 2012-03-09
Abstract: A system (10) for managing cryptographic operations on behalf of a plurality of user entities (12,13) located remotely from the system (10). The system (10) comprises storage means (14) for storing cryptographic material for each of the user entities (12,13); interface means for receiving a request to perform one or more cryptographic operations from one of said plurality of user entities (12,13) and authentication information for identifying the user entity associated with the request; authentication means for identifying the user entity (12,13) based on said authentication information; and cryptography means for retrieving from said storage means cryptographic material for the user entity (12,13) as identified by the authentication means, and for performing the cryptographic operation (s) requested by the user entity (12,13) using said cryptographic material.
Patent GB-2506306-A (GB)
Title: A device available for tablet computer
Inventor: LEUNG ELTON YU MAN
IPC: G06F3/0354
Filed: 2012-06-27
Abstract: The invention relates to a device available for tablet computer, which includes a touch pen and an adapter used for fixing the touch pen to the tablet computer . The adapter comprises a snap joint part used for fixing the touch pen and a connection-peg part inserted into the plug interface of the tablet computer. The touch pen can be connected to the tablet computer via the adapter, thereby the user can take it expediently and improve input accuracy. The device is easy to be carried and not easily lost.
Patent GB-2509270-A (GB)
Title: Oled display device having some of the pixels containing two diodes with organic layers of different thickness
Inventor: FORSYTHE DANIEL
IPC: G09G3/32
Filed: 2012-09-12
Abstract: A display comprises an array of organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixels, at least some of the pixels comprising a first (3) and a further diode (4) connected in parallel to a drive current. The first diode (3) has a larger area than the further diode (4), and the further diode (4) has a thinner active organic layer than the first diode (3), such that the further diode (4) has a greater drive current density in use than the first diode (3). The further diode ages faster than the first diode because it is driven harder. As it ages, the conductivity of the further diode decreases, and so more current passes through the first diode. The light emitted by the first diode therefore decreases at a slower rate than in the absence of the further diode, improving lifetime and reducing image burn-in at a cost of a small reduction in the initial efficiency of the display.
Patent GB-2526146-A (GB)
Title: Improvements to lock decoders
Inventor: JENNINGS DAVID
IPC: E05B19/20
Filed: 2014-05-16
Abstract: The lock decoder 1 comprises a dummy blade 2 for insertion into a keyway of a lock to be decoded/picked. The blade 2 houses an end 8 of at least one pick lever 3. A tensioning arm 12 is secured at one end to the decoder. A removable collar 13 is slidably mounted on the blade 2 to shorten the length of the blade and convert the decoder for use with locks with shorter keyways which may have fewer tumblers. The decoder may be used on vehicle doors and then on a vehicle ignition that may include an extra tumbler. The collar 13 increases the strength and rigidity to the part of the blade which protrudes from a shorter keyway reducing its tendency to buckle under torque when used as a lock pick. The plate may include a pattern of bitting codes 7 for indication of a tumbler position via pointer 11 of pick lever 3.
Patent GB-2527368-A (GB)
Title: Structure and fabrication method of a multilayer overlay for plain bearings
Inventor: ZHANG YI
IPC: F16C33/14
Filed: 2014-06-20
Abstract: A structure of a laminated multilayer overlay 14 for plain bearings is provided. The structure consists of a group of soft metallic sub-layers 14a separated by hard intermetallic compound sub-layers 14b. The hard intermetallic layers 14b are developed by diffusion during heat treatment rather than by complicated alloying or chemical processes during deposition. The outer/top sub-layer provides protection during the running-in of an engine. The innermost sub-layer interfaces with an intermediate layer 13 and provides a good bond with a bearing lining layer 12. The hard layers 14b provide mechanical strength and Poisson constraint and help ensure the integrity of the coating. Also provided is a plain bearing comprising a backing layer 11, a bearing metal layer 12, an optional intermediate layer 13 and an overlay 14. The overlay 14 comprises a plurality of sub-layers 14a, 14b, the sub-layers comprising two or more relatively soft sub-layers14a and one or more relatively hard sub-layers 14b. The soft and hard sub-layers 14a, 14b are arranged alternately with respect to one another, each soft sub-layer 14a comprising a metal or metal alloy, and each hard sub-layer 14b comprising a one or more intermetallic compounds. A process for manufacturing such sliding overlays is also provided.
Patent GB-2528288-A (GB)
Title: Beer keg coupling device
Inventor: WOOD GEOFFREY
IPC: B67D1/08
Filed: 2014-07-16
Abstract: A coupling device for connecting a beer keg to a gas supply line and to a beer dispense line comprises: a body unit which is adapted to be mounted on a keg extractor tube of a beer keg, said body unit having a tubular body portion and gas inlet conduit 40 communicating with a bore of said body unit. Also provided is a beer outflow tube locating in the bore of tubular body portion and being axially moveable there along between a first extended position in which a beer inlet end of the outflow tube is adapted to locate within the keg extractor tube and a second retracted position, an actuator operatively connected to the outflow tube for effecting movement thereof between said first and second portions, and a locking arrangement releasably locking the outflow tube in the first position. The gas inlet conduit of the body unit has an upstream section 41 including the inlet of the conduit and said upstream section has an axis 45which is at an angle, a, of 0Â° to 10Â° relative to a notional line 46 that is parallel to the axis of the tubular body portion.
Patent GB-2515934-A (GB)
Title: Manufacturing of high resolution conductive patterns using organometallic ink and banded anilox rolls
Inventor: RAMAKRISHNAN ED S
IPC: H05K3/12
Filed: 2013-03-12
Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems methods for using ink comprising organometallics in a flexographic printing process using engraved anilox rolls to transfer ink to an impression roll that prints a pattern on a substrate. A banded anilox roll with more than one geometry and/or volume of cells may be used in these production systems and methods. The pattern printed may comprise a plurality of lines which are each from 1 micrometer - 25 micrometers wide and may be part of an electronics application such as a touch screen sensor or an RF antenna that requires microscopic conductive patterns such as touch screen displays or antennas.
Patent GB-2528335-A (GB)
Title: Container
Inventor: LILL BARRY
IPC: B65D5/60
Filed: 2014-10-07
Abstract: A blank 100 for a container suitable for the transport or transit of goods, the blank arranged to form a container with a base and sidewalls, where the blank has an adhesive 110a applied to an internal surface of the blank and a flexible retainer 110b fixed to the blank and configured to be foldable over and adherable to the adhesive to secure an item or product between the flexible retainer and the adhesive. The adhesive may be a cohesive, that is, an adhesive which only sticks to a substantially similar material. The adhesive may be applied to the entire inner surface or only part of the inner surface of the blank and may be applied to the entire surface or only part of the surface of the flexible retainer. The flexible retainer may be attached to the base of the container 104.