baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2430832-A (GB)
Title: Dual-tone multiple frequency (dtmf) symbol detection
Inventor: GOUGH ANDREW
IPC: H04Q1/46
Filed: 2005-09-30
Abstract: A dual-tone detection system comprises a receiver and a digital-signal processor. The digital-signal processor comprises an arithmetic-logic unit as well as window, automatic-gain control, first filter, second filter and determination modules. The window module generates a representation of the input signal. The automatic-gain control module generates a scaled representation so the tones are at a desired power level. The first filter centered about a first frequency generates a first measurement. The second filter centered about a second frequency generates a second measurement. The arithmetic-logic unit uses an equation that models a power relationship between the first and second filtered tones to generate adjusted first and second measurements, respectively. The determination module compares each of the adjusted first and second measurements with a threshold value to identify when the input signal contains the low-frequency and high-frequency tones associated with a particular DTMF symbol.
Patent GB-2431444-A (GB)
Title: Brake control system
Inventor: MASKELL ANDREW GAVIN
IPC: B60T7/12
Filed: 2005-10-21
Abstract: A brake control system for a vehicle having a plurality of wheels 12 each of which has a brake 11, and a gradient sensing means, eg. inclinometer 22 to determine the slope of the ground upon which the vehicle stands. The system comprises a driver operated brake command means, eg. pedal 24, brake actuation means, eg. hydraulic control unit 14, and brake control means, eg. ECU 15, for controlling the brake actuation means in accordance with the operation of the brake command means and vehicle parameters, said brake control means being arranged to detect that the vehicle is stationary and held on a slope by braking effort supplied by the brake, and to control the release of the braking effort as a function of the steepness of the slope following operation of the brake command means to release the brakes. The hill descent mode mentioned above may be activated by a switch 20.
Patent GB-2421269-A (GB)
Title: Sash window having lateral sealing motion
Inventor: BAKKERS ERLAND PETER MARTIEN
IPC: E06B3/44
Filed: 2005-12-20
Abstract: A sash window guiding device for a slidable sash window is configured to be provided between a frame and the sash window. The sash window guiding device is configured to displace the sash window transversely to the direction of sliding thereof over a relatively small distance which is sufficient to bring the sash window at least in the closed condition thereof into a sealing contact with the frame with a sealing structure provided in between, and to bring the sash window, while opening it, out of the sealing contact with the frame. The sash window guiding device comprises a first guide 9 to be connected to the frame for guiding a body essentially in a vertical direction relative to the frame, and a second guide 12 to be connected to the sash window for guiding the body essentially at an angle to the vertical direction relative to the sash window.
Patent GB-2423259-A (GB)
Title: Training aid for swimming
Inventor: BULLOCK DANIEL
IPC: A63B31/10
Filed: 2006-02-15
Abstract: A training aid 6 for swimming training comprises spacer elements 10 locatable on a flexible member 8. In use, the spacer elements 10 are retained between adjacent digits of a user's hand. The aid may include an attachment portion 12 connectable to a spacer element or to the flexible member for attachment round a part of the user's hand. The aid may alternatively include an attachment portion integral with the flexible member for attachment around part of the user's hand. The flexible member 8 may comprise a cord, or may be formed of a plastic or elastic material. The thickness of one or more spacer elements 10 may differ from that of other spacer elements, and the spacer element for retention between the thumb and index finger may have the greatest thickness. The spacer elements 10 may be disc-shaped, may have a thickness between 5-10mm, and may be moveable along the flexible member. The flexible member 8 may extend through an aperture in each of the spacer elements, with the apertures being offset from the centre of their respective spacer elements. The training aid is intended to assist in teaching the correct hand shape and finger spacing when swimming.
Patent GB-2423948-A (GB)
Title: Tool holder for a hand held power tool
Inventor: HELLBACH MANFRED
IPC: B25D17/08
Filed: 2006-03-02
Abstract: A tool holder, particularly for a hammer drill or similar portable power tool, has a body 11, with an aperture 19 therein and a guide ring 20 displaceable thereon. Locking member 15 is held by the apertures in guide ring 20 and body 11 and is radially displaceable. Locking ring 25 holds locking member 15 in its locked position. Guide ring 20 and locking ring 25 are connected to slide it which is axially moveable on body 11 against the influence of spring 18. The locking members may comprise rollers, oriented tranversely to the insertion direction of the tool shaft (see below) and having a length substantially the same as the width of that shaft. In use, a suitably shaped tool shaft 13 having axial channels 14 is pushed into the tool holder, where it pushes the locking body rearwardly. This in turn displaces slide 16 and guide ring 20 rearwardly, which causes the locking body to slide under locking ring 25 and be displaced radially away from the tool shaft into cavity 32, allowing the tool shaft to be fully inserted, at which point, spring 18 urges slide 16 forwardly, causing the locking member to engage with channels 14 where it is held by locking ring 25. To remove the tool, slide 16 is manually displaced rearwardly, which again causes the radial displacement of locking body 15 and the release of the tool shaft.
Patent GB-2426470-A (GB)
Title: Purging a particulate trap of a diesel engine
Inventor: FORD KIM
IPC: F01N13/02
Filed: 2006-05-04
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of injecting fuel into the cylinders of a diesel engine having a particulate trap. The injection of fuel into each cylinder during each combustion cycle is divided in a plurality of discreet events together forming an injection state. To purge the particulate trap, the injection state is switched in a sequence between a first injection state that produces exhaust gases having a high temperature and a second injection state that produces exhaust gases with a high hydrocarbon content at a lower temperature The switching frequency is sufficiently high for the exhaust gases produced during combustion events with differing injection states to mix with one another in the exhaust system upstream of the particulate trap. The excess hydrocarbons combust to burn off the particles in the trap. Additionally different cylinders are sequentially selected to operate with a different injection state.
Patent GB-2435373-A (GB)
Title: Captioned telephone service
Inventor: ENGELKE ROBERT M
IPC: H04M3/42
Filed: 2005-02-18
Abstract: Captioned telephone are devices intended to provide text captions to persons needing assistance with telephone communications. Captioned telephones provide text by using the services of a relay interposed between the assisted user and the hearing user, the relay providing the captioning for the assisted user. While captioned telephone service can be delivered over a single telephone line, if the assisted user has two telephone lines available for the captioning service, additional features and advantages are possible in the delivery of captioned telephone service to the user.
Patent GB-2430623-A (GB)
Title: Medicaments for treating chronic respiratory disease
Inventor: FOX CRAIG
IPC: A61P11/06
Filed: 2005-08-03
Abstract: There is provided the use of a methyixanthine compound and a steroid in a synergistic combination for the treatment of a respiratory disease, wherein the methyixanthine compound is administered at a dose which, in isolation, is not effective to treat said disease.
Patent GB-2443165-A (GB)
Title: A speculum with a threaded adjustment means incorporating a limit or stop
Inventor: TSAI YIH-CHIOU
IPC: A61B1/303
Filed: 2006-10-25
Abstract: A vaginal speculum has a stationary bracket (10), a pivoting bracket (20) and a nut (60). The stationary bracket (10) has a stationary lever (13) with a through hole (14) defined through the stationary lever (13). The pivoting bracket (20) connects pivotally to the stationary bracket (10) and has a pivoting lever (23) with a threaded rod (24) extending from the pivoting lever (23) toward the stationary lever (13) and through the through hole (14). The threaded rod (24) has a thread (240) formed around the threaded rod (24), a distal end (249) extending through the through hole (14) and a limit (242) aligned with the thread (240). The nut (60) is screwed detachably around the threaded rod (24), is mounted between the stationary lever (13) and the distal end (249) of the threaded rod (24), selectively abuts the stationary lever (13) and will be stopped by the limit (242) from being detached from the threaded rod (24).
Patent GB-2433786-A (GB)
Title: System and method to determine alarm limits for a patients monitored vital signs
Inventor: PALMA MARK DANIEL
IPC: G06F19/00
Filed: 2006-12-19
Abstract: A system and method for automatically determining alarm limits for a specific patient's monitored vital signs includes an expert system 12. The expert system uses a set of expert rules 1 derived by medical experts and a set of influencing factors 18 (e.g. patient's age, gender, weight etc.) to calculate an estimated acceptable range 20 for a given physiological parameter (e.g. blood pressure, heart rate). The estimated ranges are used to set maximum and minimum alarm limits 26 on a physiological parameter monitor. The system and method may also calculate an estimated range 22 and alarm limits 28 when a patient is under anaesthesia where the expert system 12 uses a second set of expert rules 16, the previously calculated acceptable range (without anaesthesia) and a target concentration of anaesthetic 24.
Patent GB-2434866-A (GB)
Title: Imaging reporters of transgene expression
Inventor: KELLER CHARLES
IPC: A61K49/00
Filed: 2007-04-16
Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for imaging in animals.
Patent GB-2450539-A (GB)
Title: Security method for a mobile computing device
Inventor: PULLEN MEL
IPC: H04W4/02
Filed: 2007-06-27
Abstract: A computing device comprises a facility whereby, when an alternative password or PIN or other input sequence is input to unlock the device, the device sends a communication to an appropriate authority indicating that the device is being used without the authority of the owner. The communication may include additional information, such as the device current location, or data stored on the device since the input of the alternative pin or password.
Patent GB-2437906-A (GB)
Title: Holder for a waste bin liner within a waste bin
Inventor: MURRAY JOHN
IPC: B65F1/06
Filed: 2006-02-09
Abstract: A receptacle for waste comprises a waste bin, a waste bin liner (10) and a holder for holding the waste bin liner (10) within the waste bin. The holder comprises a strap (2) arranged to form an expansible ring (1), the strap (2) having opposite ends (3, 7) which interengage, the ends (3, 7) of the strap carrying interengaging formations (6, 8) which are engageable at a plurality of different positions corresponding to different degrees of expansion of the ring (1), and which, when engaged, resist contraction of the ring (1). The upper portion (9) of the waste bin liner (10) is folded over the holder so that the upper portion (9) of the waste bin liner (10) is located between the holder and the inner wall of the waste bin.
Patent GB-2442609-A (GB)
Title: Register control in an inter processor communication system.
Inventor: JONES SIMON
IPC: G06F15/17
Filed: 2007-10-05
Abstract: Disclosed is a base processor 100 with a communication interface 107 that can place data in an internal register 104 without the control of the processor 105. The processor and the communications interface both have paths (108, 110) to the register. An instruction decoder in the processor relinquishes control of an internal register when it receives an instruction to receive external data. Control of the register is given over to the interface, so that the interface can place data received from a external device 101, preferably a second processor in to the register. The decoder may have logic to deactivate or cease fetching instructions. The interface may able to detect control commands for directing operations of the interface. The interface may have a buffer memory to store the data before putting it into the register. The processor is part of a multi-processor system in which one processor is able to put data into the register of another processor. The processors may be on a single chip part of the system on a chip.
Patent GB-2441271-A (GB)
Title: Multi wavelength sensor array
Inventor: MEYER A DOUGLAS
IPC: G01S3/80
Filed: 2005-10-06
Abstract: The number of sensors that can be used by an SSA system including a single source can be increased by using a multi wavelength source to send different wavelength pulses to each of a plurality of different sensor array ladders, particularly Sagnac sensor array (SSA) ladders. More particularly, each broadband pulse from a broadband source is wavelength divided into a plurality of narrower pulses with each narrower pulse being used in a separate sensor array ladder.
Patent GB-2446730-A (GB)
Title: A window assembly with a sliding member
Inventor: KERNAGHAN IAN
IPC: E06B3/46
Filed: 2007-03-28
Abstract: A window assembly (30) comprising a frame (36) in which are received sliding and security members. The security member has ventilating and non- ventilating parts (40, 32), with the sliding member (34) being slidably moveable over the security member between a first position in which air may pass through the ventilating part (40) so as to ventilate the room in which the window assembly (30) is located, and a second position in which no such ventilation can occur. The ventilating part 40 may comprise a grille, perforated sheet, lattice arrangement or the like.
Patent GB-2455828-A (GB)
Title: Noise cancellation system with adaptive filter and two different sample rates
Inventor: AL-NAIMI KHALDOON
IPC: G10K11/178
Filed: 2008-06-16
Abstract: The system and method comprising: an adaptive filter 44 for receiving a digital noise signal 40 at a first sample rate and for generating a noise cancellation signal; and control circuitry 54, for generating a control signal at a second sample rate for application to the adaptive filter so as to adjust a filter characteristic. The second sample rate is lower than the first sample rate but is higher than a Nyquist sampling rate required to sample signals up to a desired cut-off frequency within the audio frequency range. The system may employ analog-digital converters 42 if the signal sources are not digital, and may use a decimator 52 to reduce signal sample rates. The first sample rate may vary from 100 kHz to over 1 MHz and the second sample rate from 50 kHz to less than 2 kHz. The system may find application in mobile phones, headphones, earphones etc..
Patent GB-2450420-A (GB)
Title: Lightweight machine gun
Inventor: BEVILLE JOHN
IPC: F41A3/12
Filed: 2008-06-19
Abstract: A light-weight machine gun is made by replacing selected components previously made of steel with interchangeable components made of coated titanium alloy. Several different coatings are used on the components depending on the performance requirements of the component as well as factors related to convenience. The back sight bracket 48, the side plates 50 and 52, bottom plate 54 and cocking handle guide 62 of the receiver, and the carrying handle rod (36, figure 1) of the carrying handle assembly(26), are made of titanium alloy coated with tungsten DLC; the front block 56, also made of titanium alloy, is coated with a first coating of chrome nitride for resistance to wear resistance and secondarily for high temperature resistance, followed by a second coating of chrome carbo-nitride to provide the appropriate appearance; and the titanium alloy carrying handle bracket of the carrying handle assembly is coated with boron carbide.
Patent GB-2462252-A (GB)
Title: Satellite positioning apparatus and method for cameras measuring electromagnetic interference
Inventor: BOWERN JOHN
IPC: G01S19/14
Filed: 2008-07-28
Abstract: An apparatus e.g. a satellite receiver and a method of receiving satellite signals for estimating the location of capture of a photograph by a camera. The method comprises receiving a signal relating to the timing of capture of the photograph; waiting for an interval of predetermined non-zero duration; and after the interval, receiving the satellite signals. The duration of the interval is determined based upon measured electromagnetic interference within the camera, and can be adjusted either manually or based on the camera's parameters. The apparatus is comprising a computer program for running the system.
Patent GB-2449033-A (GB)
Title: Semi-submersible vessel, method for operating a semi-submersible vessel and method for manufacturing a semi-submersible vessel
Inventor: COPPENS TON
IPC: B63B1/10
Filed: 2006-12-12
Abstract: The present invention relates to a semi-submersible vessel comprising at least one lower hull section (22) which defines a first water displacing volume; a support structure (24) connected to the at least one lower hull section (22) and extending upward from the at least one lower hull section, wherein the support structure (24) has a waterplane area which is substantially smaller than the waterplane area of the at least one lower hull section; a deck structure (26) connected to the support structure (24), wherein the deck structure (26) is provided at a distance above the at least one lower hull section (22); a ballast system for controllably varying the draft of the vessel such that at a first draft (30) the at least one lower hull section (22) may be provided at least in part above the water-line and at a second draft (28) the support structure may be provided at least partly below the water-line; wherein the assembly of said at least one lower hull section, said support structure and said deck structure comprises structural reinforcements, such that the vessel is sufficiently strong to substantially safely survive a storm at the first draft (30). The invention further relates to a method of operating such a semi-submersible vessel.
Patent GB-2464776-A (GB)
Title: Packaging and mixing system
Inventor: BARLOW PETER
IPC: B28C5/08
Filed: 2008-11-24
Abstract: An adhesive, glue, cement, screed or other paste material storage, and mixing system comprises a heavy duty sealed plastic bucket container 201 featuring a translucent or transparent vertical wall portion 209. The wall portion 209 provides a scale for both volume and/or weight. Predetermined quantities of powdered adhesive are contained within heavy duty paper or polythene sacks or bags 202, 203 within the bucket. The bucket provides a combined use as a measuring and mixing vessel to ensure a correct volume of water is used with pre-defined quantities of the powder adhesive. A handle 206 and lid 207 may be provided.
Patent GB-2466005-A (GB)
Title: A clutch with grooves forming a rail rack wear adjuster
Inventor: JONAK WILLIAM
IPC: F16D25/0638
Filed: 2008-12-05
Abstract: A self adjusting clutch in an automatic transmission comprises a fluid-driven piston 1 for applying clutch plates 4, the piston 1 being moveably arranged in a piston chamber 2, and a spring 3 pushing the piston 1 back in its non-applied position. As the clutch plates 4 wear a gap 5 increases so that shaft time also increases. This problem is overcome by providing a retainer element 6 with one end mounted with play in recess 7 and another end cooperating with grooves 8. The grooves 8 form a rack rail so that as wear occurs the retainer element 6 is pushed from one groove 8 to the next groove 8 so that the gap 5 remains constant.
Patent GB-2458521-A (GB)
Title: A bag for wearing when not in use
Inventor: RAAD ROBIN ANDREW
IPC: A41D15/04
Filed: 2009-01-16
Abstract: A bag 2 which is able to be worn when not in use comprises a body portion 4 for receiving at least one item to be carried, a handle portion 6 by which the bag 2 is carried when the bag 2 is in use, and fastener means 8, and the bag 2 being such that when it is not in use it is foldable to a strip 10, the folded bag 2 is wrappable around a part of a person, and the folded bag 2 is securable in position around the part 12 of the person by the fastener means 8. The fastening means 8 may comprise hook and loop members, press studs or buttons. The bag may have a separate or integral container which may comprise the fastener means 8.
Patent GB-2453093-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for protection of compressor modules against influx of contaminated gas
Inventor: SKOFTELAND HAKON
IPC: E21B43/12
Filed: 2007-06-20
Abstract: A method for protection of compressor modules against undesirable influx of contaminated gas, comprising a pressure housing (3) which by means of one of more sealing elements (4) is generally divided into a first compartment (8) equipped with a compressor (2) and a second compartment (7) equipped with a gas-filled motor (1), the compressor and the motor being drivably connected to each other by at least one shaft (9), is distinguished by protecting the second compartment (7) with motor (1) against direct influx of contaminated gas from the first compartment (8) with compressor (2) by means of compressed gas that is supplied from a withdrawal point (13) at the first or intermediate stage of the compressor, or from the compressor outlet (16), and by introducing the compressed gas directly into the seal (4) or in between two or more seals so as to flow through the at least one seal (4) back to the first compartment (8). The invention also relates to an apparatus for use in connection with the method.
Patent GB-2455659-A (GB)
Title: Text messaging system and method employing predictive text entry and text compression and apparatus for use therein
Inventor: LAFLEUR PHILIPPE JONATHAN GABRIEL
IPC: G06F17/27
Filed: 2007-08-20
Abstract: A device (110) used for composing, compressing and transmiting messages by way of a data network (100) comprises means (116) for employing predictive text entry during composition of a message (MSG) and compressing the composed message for transmission. Increased redundancy and improved compression efficiency result from having the predictive text entry program (201) suggest character strings (207) derived from a corpus of messages (204) that serves also as a basis for a statistical model (206) used for compression. A messaging system comprising the composition device (110) and a device for receiving and decompressing the message may comprise a messaging (MSG) hub (108) for decompressing messages (MSG) from the composing device and reformatting them, for example as e-mail messages (E- MSG), before transmitting them to the addressee (112,113,114,115) and, conversely, compressing messages from the addressee using a similar corpus of messages (204) before transmitting them to the composing device (110). Peer-to-peer messaging (MSG') may be provided between two users using similar devices capable of composing, compressing and transmitting messages (110'), and received and decompressing messages (110'').