baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2578308-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for prefetching data
Inventor: NATALYA BONDARENKO
IPC: G06F12/0862
Filed: 2018-10-22
Abstract: An apparatus with corresponding method of use comprising a processor 105 and a hierarchical cache with a plurality of cache levels 115, 120 wherein there are a plurality of prefetch units 127, 130. Each cache level has a plurality of entries and maintains pre-fetch tag information for each entry containing which prefetch module of that level and/or lower level prefetched that data. Each cache level provides data to a higher cache level in response to a data request including the prefetch tag. There is also accuracy information storage 145 which maintain accuracy inferring information pertaining to each prefetch unit and when data is evicted from a cache level, the accuracy information is updated based on the tag information. There may be a corresponding prefetch flag for each cache entry which indicates whether or not that prefetched data has been required by the processor. There may be a promotion flag associated with data in the cache such that the accuracy information is only updated when data is evicted, not when it is merely promoted to a higher cache level. The tag information may be stored separately from the prefetched data.
Patent GB-2579224-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for producing an improved animal population
Inventor: GLEN JONATHAN SLADE
IPC: A01M1/22
Filed: 2018-11-26
Abstract: Apparatus 100 for shielding a non-human animal from a sterilizant 110. The apparatus defines a space (102, fig 1) for accommodating an animal 111 and a shield 107 for shielding a part of the animal from a sterilizant such as ionising radiation. Alternatively, the apparatus defines a body which is adapted to support the non-human animal in an orientation which permits part of the animal body to be introduced into a bath of liquid sterilizant (fig 8) such as a chemosterilizant.. Only exposing a specific part of the animal, preferably the genitalia, to the sterilizant produces a sterile animal which is better adapted to mate with other animals in the wild when released in a sterile insect technique (SIT). Preferably the animal is an arthropod, more preferably an insect.
Patent GB-2582946-A (GB)
Title: Bearing arrangement
Inventor: DAVIDE NICOLETTI
IPC: F16C27/04
Filed: 2019-04-10
Abstract: Disclosed is a bearing arrangement 100 with a ball bearing 104, a roller bearing 102, and a spring bar ring 106 configured to react radial forces applied through the ball bearing and the roller bearing. The spring bar ring has an array of first spring bars 112 coupled to the roller bearing and an array of second spring bars 114 coupled to the ball bearing. A radial stiffness of the first spring bars is greater than a radial stiffness of the second spring bars such that a radial load imparted to the bearing arrangement is shared between the roller bearing and the ball bearing according to the ratio of the first radial stiffness to the second radial stiffness. This ratio may be between 70:30 and 95:5, preferably 90:10. The spring bars may be integrally formed in a unitary spring bar ring. The first spring bars may be disposed radially within the second spring bars. The ball bearing may have ceramic balls. Also disclosed is a gas turbine engine with an internal gearbox having the abovementioned bearing arrangement.
Patent GB-2577172-A (GB)
Title: Decoder
Inventor: James Alexander Carter
IPC: H04B3/54
Filed: 2019-07-26
Abstract: A system for controlling a plurality of irrigation valves (2, Fig. 1) is disclosed. A transmitter modulates (4, Fig. 1) control data onto a 28 volt AC square wave. The modulated output is applied to a live line 6 and a neutral line 7. Each valve has a respective decoder (8, Fig. 1), as shown in Figure 2. The decoder is claimed. Each decoder has an input connector 21, connected to the live and neutral lines, and an output connector 22 for connection with the valve using two wires 10, 11. The decoder includes at least one power supply circuit 27/29, 28/30, connected to the input connector and a processor unit 36 for decoding the modulated control data from a received AC signal. A “controlled circuit” 37, 38 (also referred to as a regulator) is responsive to the demodulated control data and controls AC signals passed to the valve. These AC signals (see Fig. 4) may comprise a series of short pulses which alternate in polarity with the same frequency as the AC signal input to the decoder (Fig. 3). Each power supply may include a capacitor 29 and a diode 27.
Patent GB-2577214-A (GB)
Title: Methods for trapping and barcoding discrete biological units in hydrogel
Inventor: STUART J EDELSTEIN
IPC: C12Q1/6874
Filed: 2018-05-04
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for trapping and barcoding discrete biological units in a hydrogel. It further relates to methods for analyzing gene expression, genotype, haplotype or epigenome in discrete biological units. The present invention also relates to kits for implementing the methods of the present disclosure.
Patent GB-2580248-A (GB)
Title: Cognitive energy assessment by a non-intrusive sensor in a thermal energy fluid transfer system
Inventor: NIALL BRADY
IPC: G06Q50/06
Filed: 2018-08-10
Abstract: Behavior of a thermal energy fluid transfer system, associated with a heating service, a cooling service, or a combination thereof, may be learned according to collected data to identify one or more energy usage events. An energy usage assessment operation may be performed using temperature signal disambiguation operations, with data collected over a selected time period by one or more non-intrusive Internet of Things (IoT) sensors located at one or more selected positions in the thermal energy fluid transfer system,to learn the system performance indicators, and when coupled with ingested expected policy behavior, identify one or more energy usage waste events according to the learned behavior in real time.
Patent GB-2581444-A (GB)
Title: Furnace
Inventor: RORY HUGHES
IPC: F23G5/20
Filed: 2020-03-31
Abstract: A rotary furnace 1 for pyrolysing a feedstock comprises a rotating vessel 12 with an inlet 16 for receiving feedstock at an upstream end 12A and an outlet 17A for pyrolysis products at a downstream end 12B. A gas extraction pipe 13 extends along the rotating vessel from the downstream end and has an opening 18 upstream of the downstream end to accept gaseous components generated in the vessel. The gas extraction pipe has a self-cleaning device (20, Fig. 5) which contacts an interior surface of the gas extraction pipe to remove debris. The self-cleaning device may comprise a disc (22, Fig. 5) secured to a rotatable rod (21, Fig. 5) movable along its axis. The rotating vessel may be inclined and the longitudinal axis of the gas extraction may be offset from the longitudinal axis of the vessel. The gas extraction pipe may have a chamfered inlet 18. The vessel may have a second outlet 17B for solid pyrolysis products. The furnace may have a gas condensation chamber 14. A corresponding method is also claimed.
Patent GB-2583584-A (GB)
Title: Current sensor for biomedical measurements
Inventor: JUANPING YUAN
IPC: G01R19/00
Filed: 2017-12-22
Abstract: A current sensor for biomedical measurements comprises switched capacitors 103 & 105, in series across amplifier 101, and switched capacitor network 120 between amplifiers 101, 111. Switches 107 & 109 may be controlled by complementary clocks (A, B: 211, fig. 2), e.g. switch 107 being closed while switch 109 is open so capacitor 103 is reset while 105 charges. The clock signal occurs when charging current passes a threshold determined by comparators (201 & 203, fig. 2). When input current is small and higher frequency amplifier output 111, being linearly related to input current in dependence on the capacitances involved, provides a low noise current measurement. For relatively larger current, flip-flop outputs (207 & 209, fig. 2) provide a frequency output proportional to input current. The dynamic range is therefore widened. Since no external reset or sample clock is required, bandwidth is not limited by sample rate.
Patent GB-2586334-A (GB)
Title: A panic hardware system
Inventor: KEVIN O'REILLY
IPC: E05C9/04
Filed: 2015-10-23
Abstract: A panic hardware system for double doors including a first and second lock devices 64, 66 with first and second operators such as panic bars 40, 30 controlling upper and lower locking members such as shoot-bolts (52, 58, 86, 92, fig.2). Operation of the second operator 70 unlocks the upper and lower locking members of the second lock device on the second/active door 6. Operation of the first actuator 40 unlocks the upper and lower locking members of the first lock device of the first/inactive door 2 and the locks of the second door via a link 68 such that operation of the first operator 40 unlocks both doors. The link 68 is preferably a two part bar with tapered ends attached to the drive bars of the locking mechanisms.
Patent GB-2599107-A (GB)
Title: A piezoelectric resonator, a piezoelectric material for a piezoelectric resonator, and a method for manufacturing a piezoelectric resonator
Inventor: DANIEL WALLINDER
IPC: H01L41/27
Filed: 2020-09-23
Abstract: A quartz crystal plate resonator is heated to reduce its hydrogen content to increase the shear wave velocity of the crystal. The resonator has an improved quality factor and frequency stability for mass sensor applications.
Patent GB-2592701-A (GB)
Title: Cistern assembly
Inventor: MARTIN DUDLEY
IPC: E03D5/092
Filed: 2020-10-14
Abstract: A flush actuator for a cistern assembly comprising a handle 60, a spindle (64, fig 7) coupled to the handle at a first end and having a socket 642 at a second end for coupling receipt of a flushing shank, a sleeve 63 within which the spindle is rotatably received and a fastener 63a for securing the actuator to a panel AP. Preferably the handle is releasably coupled to the spindle by a coupling shank 603 which engages a coupling socket (641, fig 10). The coupling socket may have a cross sectional shape comprising splines that cooperates in only one relative orientation. Further disclosed is a flush actuator assembly, wherein the flushing shank is coupled to a cistern mount by a knuckle (653, fig 13) that enables the shank to axially rotate and tilt. The actuator is preferably for use in a concealed cistern assembly employing a removable syphon.
Patent GB-2603200-A (GB)
Title: A modular construction block
Inventor: MARK MCKIE
IPC: E04B2/12
Filed: 2021-02-02
Abstract: The modular construction block 10 comprises a first face 12 comprising a first connector 14, and comprising a second face 16 comprising a second connector 18. The second connector 18 is configured for engaging against the first connector 12A from a second modular construction block 10A which is identical to the modular construction block. The block also comprises a first contoured surface 20 between the first face and the second face 16, and a second contoured surface 22 between the first face 12 and the second face 16. The first contoured surface is configured for engaging with the second contoured surface 22B from a third modular construction block 10B which is identical to the modular construction block. In this way, the modular construction block 10 is configured to allow the creation of curved walls 100 or structure or buildings 200 comprising such walls 100.
Patent GB-2603761-A (GB)
Title: Mechanical seal bellows
Inventor: ANDREW COLVERSON
IPC: F16J15/34
Filed: 2021-02-10
Abstract: A mechanical seal assembly for sealing a rotatable shaft against a stationary housing is provided. The mechanical seal assembly comprises: a sealing face 1; a face holder 2, a drive-end 4 and a bellows arrangement 3. The bellows arrangement 3 comprises a plurality of profiles connected at both peak and trough in a stack, to effectively act as a spring for biasing the sealing face 1 to form a seal. The bellows arrangement 3 is at least partially coated by using a High Velocity Oxygen Fuel (HVOF) coating process. The HVOF coating may typically consist of chromium, cobalt, molybdenum, bronze and zirconium.
Patent GB-2591886-A (GB)
Title: Atmospheric pollution forecasting method
Inventor: YIPING LIU
IPC: G06Q10/04
Filed: 2019-02-15
Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of environmental monitoring and discloses an environmental pollution forecasting method. The method comprises: establishing a three-dimensional time-space grid to perform vectorization analysis on data of a gridded database so as to obtain feature vectors of all or part of data units; and forecasting values of the data units in a future time period by using the feature vectors of the data units in a time period after a similar grid interval.
Patent GB-2604887-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning systems and methods for extraction or ventilation ducts
Inventor: GREGORY CUNNINGHAM
IPC: F24C15/20
Filed: 2021-03-17
Abstract: A cleaning system 1 for preventing the build-up of fats, oils and greases within extraction and ventilation ducts (9, fig. 2). A supply pipe 2 supplies a cleaning fluid by means of a pump 3, potentially using compressed air, into an upstream end 4a of an output pipe 4. A nozzle 5, potentially a venturi nozzle, is connected to a downstream end 4b of the pipe and expels the cleaning agent into the ducts. A controller 6, which communicates with a user device, activates and deactivates the pump to control the flow of the cleaning fluid through the nozzle. The controller may communicate wirelessly with the user device and may report issues of non-performance in the system. The controller may calculate an amount of cleaning fluid required based on readings of a flow meter 7. The cleaning fluid may comprise a type of bacteria. A method is also claimed of spraying a cleaning fluid as a fog within the ventilation duct to embed droplets on the internal surface of the ventilation duct to inhibit the build-up of residue.
Patent GB-2596473-A (GB)
Title: Risk calculation device, risk calculation program, and risk calculation method
Inventor: TAIKI KOBAYASHI
IPC: F24F140/00
Filed: 2019-03-27
Abstract: This facility risk calculation unit calculates, from the result of calculating the thermal environment, a risk index value (ri) that indicates at least one of a calculated temperature (Ci) obtained from calculating the thermal environment for a set temperature (Si), a degree of difference (a*g(αi-1, αi) indicating the difference from a target value (Si), and a degree of change (b*g(βi-1, βi)) indicating the value of a change in a calculated target value (Ci) over time. A display processing unit displays a facility risk (R), which is obtained from a risk index value (ri), on a display device.
Patent GB-2604689-A (GB)
Title: Unipolar connection terminal for high-voltage connector and connector device
Inventor: Jianrui Yin
IPC: H01R13/642
Filed: 2021-10-29
Abstract: A unipolar terminal 1 suitable for a high voltage connector and a connector device including such a terminal. The unipolar terminal 1 comprises a columnar insertion tube 2 configured to be connected and passed through by a mating terminal. An end portion of the insertion tube 2 extends in a radial direction to form at least three protrusion structures 3. The protrusion structures 3 are arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of an end surface of the insertion tube 2. The protrusion structures 3 disposed at the end portion of the insertion tube help prevent erroneous assembly of a connector device. At least one of the protrusion structures 3 may be a first fool-proof protrusion 31 with the remaining protrusion structures 3 being second fool-proof protrusions 32 where the cross sectional-area of the first fool-proof protrusion 31 is greater than any of the cross-sectional areas of the second fool-proof protrusions 32.
Patent GB-2599305-A (GB)
Title: Dual turbine power and wellbore communications apparatus
Inventor: BRYAN DUGAS
IPC: E21B47/12
Filed: 2020-05-22
Abstract: A downhole system and method of performing an operational action with the downhole system. The downhole system includes a downhole string having a flow channel therethrough, a first turbine generator for generating electrical energy when a flow rate of a fluid through the flow channel is within a first flow rate range, and a second turbine generator for generating electrical energy when a flow rate of the fluid through the flow channel is within a second flow rate range. A first pulser at a downhole location in the downhole string transmits a pressure pulse communicative of data generated downhole using electrical energy generated by one of the first turbine generator and the second turbine generator. A sensor at a surface location receives the pressure pulse, and a control unit performs the operational action based on the data communicated by the pressure pulse.
Patent GB-2613649-A (GB)
Title: Graphics processing system and method of rendering
Inventor: ENRIQUE DE LUCAS
IPC: G06T15/00
Filed: 2021-12-13
Abstract: A method of rendering, in a rendering space in a graphics processing system, a scene formed by primitives, the method comprising a rendering phase comprising the steps of receiving (S602) data describing one or more primitives and two or more associated fragment shading rates to be used during rendering, identifying (S603), from the primitives, shader fragment task instances to be shaded, wherein the shader fragment task instances comprise shader fragment task instances associated with a first fragment shading rate and shader fragment task instances associated with a second fragment shading rate. These shader fragment task instances are combined into a shading task, the shading task comprising fragment task instances associated with the first fragment shading rate and fragment task instances associated with the second fragment shading rate wherein the fragment task instances combined into the shading task require a common shader program and processing (S614) the shading task.
Patent GB-2616404-A (GB)
Title: Tine for tilling implement
Inventor: JOHN NORMAN COUSINS
IPC: A01B35/22
Filed: 2022-01-12
Abstract: A tine 10 for a tilling implement comprises a front facing edge 11, 19, relative to the direction of travel D having a stepped configuration. The front facing edge may be incorporated into a plate which may be datable from a main body of the tine. The tine may comprise a notch formed in a trailing of the front facing plate and/or leading edge of the main body of the tine. The tine assembly may also include a wing 12 and a mounting bracket 13 that provides a mating structure between the main body of the tine 14 and the front facing plate 11 so that the parts are removable from each other. In one form there may be two mating structures, e.g. a securable mating structure (16/17, figure 10) distant from a self-releasable mating structure (23/25), wherein a single fastening element at the securing mating structure is sufficient to maintain the front facing plate 11 in place against the main body of the tine 14 for use. Also disclosed is a modular tine assembly.
Patent GB-2605323-A (GB)
Title: Control line activated tubing disconnect latch system
Inventor: THOMAS JAMES WAKERLEY
IPC: E21B23/10
Filed: 2019-12-16
Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed that use a control line to expand a piston that shears pins to disconnect a latching system for wellbore operations.
Patent GB-2621138-A (GB)
Title: Insect production process using carbon capture
Inventor: Evelyn C Peters
IPC: A23K50/90
Filed: 2022-08-02
Abstract: A production method for insect feed comprises passing a gas stream containing carbon dioxide into an aqueous algae solution, harvesting the algae, and processing it to produce insect feed 5-8. The carbon dioxide may be captured from an industrial plant 1 such as a food processing plant. The gas stream may be cooled to a temperature ≤ 50°C before passing it into the solution; this may be done using a heat exchanger 3a/b, including a water-cooling coil, the water from the water-cooling coil may be used to heat the solution to temperature ≤ 28°C. A system for producing algae is also claimed comprising a diversion valve to divert the gas stream, via a gas channel, from an industrial plant to a photobioreactor containing the aqueous algae solution. The photobioreactor may be a high-rate algal pond 4. The algae may comprise Chlorophyta sorokiniana, Scenedesmus obliquus and/or Schizochytrium sp. The produced insect feed may be added to an insect bioreactor 9, optionally containing black soldier flies; ammonia may be separated from the air in the bioreactor; and then added to the aqueous algae solution. Insects may be harvested from the bioreactor and used for animal feed, insect meal, fertilizer, lipids and/or chitin.
Patent GB-2610315-A (GB)
Title: Light emitting diode (LED) filament light bulb with secured antenna
Inventor: DUSTIN CAIRNS
IPC: F21V23/00
Filed: 2018-09-14
Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) filament light bulb 10 having an axis of symmetry and including a plurality of LED filaments, an LED driver 54 including power electronics for providing power to the plurality of LED filaments and a microcontroller, a RF driver 58, an antenna 34 positioned to extend in a direction that is parallel to and offset from the axis of symmetry, the antenna defining a first end portion 51 and a second end portion 52, the first end portion being electrically connected and in signal communication with the RF driver, and a cover 20 defining an external wall 72 and a support structure 74, the external wall defining an interior volume 76 containing a non-reactive gas and the support structure including an internal wall 100 surrounding both an evacuation passageway 82 and an external opening 98, the evacuation passageway being fluidly connected to the interior volume of the cover and containing the antenna, and a base 22 attached to the cover around the external opening, the LED driver and RF driver both being contained within the base. The LED filament bulb may mimic the appearance of an incandescent light bulb. The cover may be clear. The base may be an Edison or A19 screw base.
Patent GB-2612699-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems of sequential latent inference of complex knowledge
Inventor: PHILLIP WILLIAMS
IPC: G06F8/75
Filed: 2022-09-28
Abstract: A codebase is instrumented by an auto-differentiation engine, which also captures interactions between one or more variables in the codebase during execution thereof. A processor executes the codebase, thereby generating a metric; extracts low-level data from the codebase; and determines the impact of the variable(s) on the metric. The codebase may relate to supply chain management, thereby allowing for supply chain logic to be implemented in such a way that a supply planner can see the major factors driving KPIs, and can drill down to the lower level to see the impact of each item at the smallest possible level. The low-level data may comprise data structures, lists of executed mathematical operations, derivatives-related data, calculus-related data, optimization-related data, or a directed acyclic graph.