baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2392994-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for monitoring the efficacy of an X-ray or photographic development process
Inventor: GRANT SIDNEY
IPC: G03D13/00
Filed: 2002-05-30
Abstract: A method and system for monitoring when chemicals in a development process need replenishing. The system comprises a reference strip (15) bearing a developed graduated scale of exposure of a radiation sensitive medium to a range of exposures and a testing module comprising a radiation shielded pouch (10,fig1) and an unexposed radiation sensitive medium (11) within the pouch. The module includes a radiation filter for producing a graduated scale (13,fig1) of a range of exposures to radiation on a test strip (11) when it is exposed to radiation and subsequently developed. The scale on the test strip (11) being identical to that on the reference strip (15) when the test strip (11) is exposed to the same radiation, and developed in a developing bath with an acceptable chemical level and composition as that used to produce the scale on the reference strip (15). Means are provided for comparing the scales on the reference (15) and test strips (11) side-by-side. The test strip (11) and the reference strip (15) each have a datum indicia (S, F, 17) that align when the test strip (11) and the reference strips (15) are in a datum position relative to each other where the scale on the test strip (11) matches the scale on the reference strip (15). One or both strips (11,15) have limits indicia (S, F) that together define an acceptable range of variation of the graduated scales of the test strip (11) compared with the test graduated scale of the reference strip (15) when the test strip (11) is moved relative to the graduated scale of the reference strip (15) away from said datum position in a direction along the scale of the reference strip (15) to bring a selected first region of the graduated scale of the test strip (11) in alignment with a matching region of the graduated scale of the reference strip (15).
Patent GB-2389742-A (GB)
Title: Communications device and method
Inventor: RAFF ADAM
IPC: H04M1/72412
Filed: 2002-06-11
Abstract: A communications device comprising a memory adapted to store at least one profile of a user of the device, wherein the said at least one profile contains predetermined attributes and requirements of the user; a communicator adapted to exchange information with a compatible device; a controller adapted to register a match between information sent by the said device and information received from a compatible device, only when said attributes match requirements of the said compatible device; and a user alert adapted to alert a user when the controller has established that a match has been made; wherein the said communicator is adapted to receive information relating to the requirements from the said compatible device, and not said information relating to the said attributes.
Patent GB-2373926-A (GB)
Title: Thermal sensor
Inventor: O'NEILL ROBERT ANDREW
IPC: H01H37/00
Filed: 1998-04-14
Abstract: A contactstat thermal sensor comprises a snap acting bimetal disk 1 housed under a thermally conductive end cap 9 fitted to a sensor body 7 and operating a set of primary switch contacts 3,4 via a push rod 2. For providing secondary protection, operable in the event that the primary protection afforded by the bimetal fails to operate, the moving contact of the primary switch contacts 3,4 is provided at one end of a spring metal beam 5 and the other end of the beam is held down, against its spring bias, in electrical contact with a terminal part 23 of the sensor by means of a fusible rod 17 arranged to melt and release the spring metal beam, thereby disrupting the electrical path through the sensor, in the event that the fusible rod 17 is subjected to a temperature above the normal operating temperature of the bimetal.
Patent GB-2381448-A (GB)
Title: Attaching flower base to stand
Inventor: CARTER KEITH
IPC: A01G5/04
Filed: 2002-08-16
Abstract: A flower base 12 is attached to the rails 8a, 8b of a support frame 4 by means of attachment members 20, which allow it to be slid along the rails. Each attachment member consists of a bayonet (not shown) or screw threaded part 22 for securing to the base 12 and a part 24 with resiliently deformable arms 26a, 26b which snap-fit into place on the rail. A closure member 28 may also be provided. The flower base 12 has a part 14 of polystyrene or polyurethane foam to which the attachment members 20 are secured, and a part 16 of open-celled phenolic foam into which flower stems may be inserted. The flower base 12 may be shaped in the form of a letter, and arranged with others on the frame to spell out a word. The attachment members allow the letters to be adjusted in position.
Patent GB-2394463-A (GB)
Title: Cash storage unit
Inventor: MARSHALL RICHARD
IPC: E05G5/00
Filed: 2002-10-22
Abstract: A cash storage unit has a housing 4 and a lid 6. The housing 4 is sub-divided into two compartments. The upper compartment comprises an opening 18 which provides access to the lower cash receiving compartment. This opening 18 comprises a closure flap 30 which substantially closes the opening 18 between the two compartments when the lid 6 of the cash storage unit 2 is open and opens the opening 18 when the lid 6 of the cash storage unit is closed, thus permitting monies stored in the first compartment to drop into the second compartment 22 upon closure of the lid 6.
Patent GB-2382494-A (GB)
Title: Registered e-mail system
Inventor: SILCOCK IAN
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2002-10-31
Abstract: A method of transmitting electronic messages and/or documents in a networked environment comprising at least one server and a plurality of user terminals operable by end users, wherein an electronic message or document created by a first user is transmitted via the network from a first user terminal to the server, which electronic message or document comprises information and data relating to an intended recipient, which server stores the electronic message or document in non-volatile memory means and then transmitted a further electronic message to the intended recipient to inform him that an electronic message or document is stored on the server. Other embodiments include sending a "confirmation of viewing" e-mail back to the first user, and allowing access to the e-mail or message originally sent by requiring the recipient to verify his identify.
Patent GB-2387477-A (GB)
Title: fuel cell and fuel cell stack
Inventor: SUENAGA TOSHIHIKO
IPC: H01M8/24
Filed: 2002-01-28
Abstract: A fuel cell comprising a pair of separators (3) sandwiching a pair of electrodes formed on both surfaces of a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, wherein insulating members (201) are provided around communication holes formed in said separators, so as to form a space (203) between adjacent insulators.
Patent GB-2384579-A (GB)
Title: Movable barrier operator
Inventor: FITZGIBBON JAMES J
IPC: E05F15/00
Filed: 2003-01-09
Abstract: A movable barrier operator (10) having improved safety and energy efficiency features automatically detects line voltage frequency and uses that information to set a worklight shut-off time. The operator automatically detects the type of door (single panel (24) or segmented) and uses that information to set a maximum speed of door travel. The operator (10) moves the door with a linearly variable speed from start of travel to stop for smooth and quiet performance. The operator (10) provides for full door closure by driving the door into the floor when the DOWN limit is reached and no auto-reverse condition has been detected. The operator (10) provides for user selection of a minimum stop speed for easy starting and stopping of sticky or binding door.
Patent GB-2402622-A (GB)
Title: A self-disinfecting device
Inventor: SMITH COLIN
IPC: E05B1/00
Filed: 2003-06-09
Abstract: A contact element for a door handle or similar, comprises a porous, friable material saturated with a disinfecting agent. In use, contact of users hand with the element, rubs away the outer layer of friable material, exposing a fresh surface for the next user. The material may have a plurality of pore sizes, with relatively large pores allowing droplets of disinfectant to form on the surface of the contact element. The element may form the outer surface of a push plate, cistern handle, or rod type of door handle, or may be placed in a recessed area of any of these articles. Alternatively the contact element(s) may comprise a plurality of rollers mounted in a frame (push plate) or about a central cylinder (door handle, cistern handle). In the either case the handle may be equipped with a resilient pad saturated with disinfectant which the contact element is configured to contact and pick up.
Patent GB-2396110-A (GB)
Title: A device for shielding a surgical instrument sharp
Inventor: MCNICHOLL BRIAN
IPC: A61B17/00
Filed: 2003-08-11
Abstract: A device for temporarily shielding the end of a surgical instrument sharp. The device comprises a housing 1 having a proximal end and a distal end. An opening 3 is formed in the distal end of the housing for receiving an end of a surgical instrument sharp 7 therethrough. A body 5 located in the housing is movable between a first position in which an end of the body obstructs the opening and a second position in which the body is retracted from the opening. A resilient means 8 is provided for biassing the body into the first position. The device further comprises actuation means 10 to move the body against the action of the resilient means into the second position.
Patent GB-2405197-A (GB)
Title: A variable geometry premixing fuel injector
Inventor: SANDERS NOEL ANTHONY
IPC: F23R3/28
Filed: 2003-08-16
Abstract: A variable geometry premixing fuel injector for injecting a fuel/air mix in a downstream direction has an air inlet 60, a fuel inlet 58 positioned downstream of the air inlet, a duct 56 extending at least downstream of the fuel inlet to define a fuel and air pre-mixing zone 62 that narrows to form an opening 64, and means for varying the flow of fuel/air mix from the premixing zone through the opening. The flow varying means may comprise a centre body 70 movable within duct walls 54 which may vary the effective area through which the fuel/air mixture can flow, the area steadily decreasing along a portion of the duct length. The duct walls may be frusto-conical in shape. The movable centre body may have a cylindrical, conical or frusto-conical leading portion, and movement of the body may constrict the air inlet. The injector may be used within a gas turbine engine (10 fig 1) which includes a combustor 15, the injector centre body 70 being cooled. Alternatively the premixing fuel injector may be utilised in a combustor which has a liner having a variable geometry, and the combustor may be operated by varying the geometry of the combustor liner and varying the geometry of the premixing fuel injector.
Patent GB-2392420-A (GB)
Title: Tyre identification system using magnetised material on tyre
Inventor: TREUTLER CHRISTOPH
IPC: B60C13/00
Filed: 2003-08-28
Abstract: The system identifies a tyre (12) on a motor vehicle which is fitted with a magnetised material at least in part, with at least one vehicle-mounted reader (16) for scanning the magnetised material and a control unit connected to the reader (16). The magnetised material constitutes a magnetic coding (17) which is designed specific to the tyre type, e.g dimension, rubber mixture, profile, required tyre pressure, and can be incorporated into the side walls, especially facing the vehicle. The material (17) can comprise circumferentially spaced code segments, or radially-spaced strips, one of which can be a timing strip. The reader (16) is one or more active magnetic field sensor(s).
Patent GB-2405499-A (GB)
Title: Information system development
Inventor: DAVIES JAMES
IPC: G06F9/44
Filed: 2003-09-01
Abstract: A method or apparatus for use in generating an information system, wherein an object-oriented model of the information system is provided, the model defining classes of information objects require to be supported by the information system in terms of their attributes, operations that may be performed on the object, and an intended relationship (if any) between two or more of the objects. Built-in or predefined descriptions of the operations which may be performed on the objects are provided in terms of conditions that should hold initially, data that might be affected, and the desired results. An operation referenced in a class definition is then automatically expanded by adding a respective built-in or predefined description thereto within the object-oriented model of the information system. It is determined if the attributes of any other class defined within the model would be affected by the operation and, if so, the operation is automatically further expanded to include an update function to update one or more attributes determined to be affected by the operation accordingly.
Patent GB-2406754-A (GB)
Title: Same or similar service handover
Inventor: VERMOLA LARRI
IPC: H04W76/40
Filed: 2003-10-03
Abstract: In a digital broadcasting network, a mobile terminal receives hierarchical ESG (Electronic Service Guide) data relating to available broadcast programs adjacent network areas. The terminal is operable whilst receiving a first program from a transmitter in a first network area for detecting a need for handover to a second network area, and for then determining from the ESG data if the same program is available in the second network area. If it is, the terminal then receives the program from a transmitter in the second network area. Otherwise, it determines one or more programs which are similar to the first program, and presents them on a display for selection by a user. This involves determining which programs have an identifier in common with the first program. The identifier can be any one or more of a program identifier, a service identifier, a channel identifier, a category identifier and a genre identifier, for example.
Patent GB-2410770-A (GB)
Title: A flow turbine
Inventor: DUNSTAN DUNSTAN
IPC: F01K21/00
Filed: 2004-01-06
Abstract: A two-phase flow turbine comprises a turbine within a box and has frictionless magnetic bearings 5 and an adjustable heat input 17 for energising the turbine's working fluids. The working fluids may be an ideal gas such as argon and a liquid such as water. The turbine may be a closed system with a vacuum pump 14, which reduces the pressure within the turbine container to the working fluid's boiling point. Heat may be supplied by a heat exchange 17 r. The turbine may comprise a reaction jet turbine 8, an impulse turbine 10 and a Kaplan type reaction turbine 13.
Patent GB-2410177-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for moving and cleaning a container
Inventor: SLACK DAVID CHRISTOPHER ROBERT
IPC: B08B9/093
Filed: 2004-01-23
Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning a container, including a main structure 15 support means 16 connected to the main structure and engageable with the container to support the container; actuating means (21, Fig. 3) for effecting movement between the support means and the main structure to cause the support means to bring the container from a first orientation to a second, drainage orientation, and when cleaning is completed return the container to its first orientation; the apparatus comprising a first liquid application apparatus 40 for applying a liquid cleaning medium to the container at least while in its drainage orientation. Also provided are second liquid application means 58 for cleaning the exterior of the containers. The application means are nozzles and means 40 has a rotable head that rotates due to the reaction force or the jets. The apparatus is surrounded by a housing 30 and supplied by a tank 60 mounted on a vehicle 12. Liquid application means 40 (Figs. 7 - 8) and apparatus for moving a container 15, 16 (Figs. 3 - 4), are claimed independently.
Patent GB-2393557-A (GB)
Title: Entertainment machines
Inventor: RANDALL DOV LIAM
IPC: G07F17/32
Filed: 2002-07-19
Abstract: An entertainment machine has a main symbol selector in the form of rotatable reels (9), and supplementary feature games, such as a trail game (17) or a gamble ladder (23). When a successful outcome is obtained in a supplementary feature game the player may be given the opportunity of selecting an award from a range of awards. The awards may be listed in different columns (30-33) such that, by pressing a selected button (25-27), the player can choose which column to obtain the award from. All columns then index to make the next listed awards available for subsequent selection. The awards may correspond to elements (33) in the columns (30-33) which are arranged in groups of different numbers of like elements. Grouped elements can be selected together so that the value of the award is determined by the number of elements in the group.
Patent GB-2411960-A (GB)
Title: Memory card storage of passive sensor calibration data
Inventor: BECKLEY JOHN PETER
IPC: B60C23/04
Filed: 2004-03-11
Abstract: A passive sensor arrangement comprises a plurality of remote passive sensors (e.g. wireless SAW devices) each requiring calibration, an interrogation system to receive and analyse data from the sensors, and a memory uniquely associated with each sensor for storing calibration data for its associated sensor. The memory is removably connected to the interrogation system. The embodiment shows a tyre pressure monitoring system with SAW sensors attached to vehicle wheels. Each sensor has its own individual memory card on which is stored the calibration data for that sensor. The memory cards are slotted into specific locations in a memory panel in the interrogation unit. Each sensor has a memory panel location associated with it, so that calibration information carried on a memory card inserted into a particular slot is automatically associated with the sensor of that location. Calibration data can therefore be easily updated when sensors are removed or replaced by relocation or replacement of the associated memory card. The cards and slots may be colour coded.
Patent GB-2412304-A (GB)
Title: Headboard with storage means
Inventor: NEWSAM CHARLES
IPC: A47C21/00
Filed: 2004-03-23
Abstract: A headboard 10 for a bed comprising a board 20 having a front and a back face, at least one hole 30 extending from the front face to the back face, and a pocket 40 extending outwardly of the back face and in communication with the hole 30. Objects such as pictures and displays can be removably inserted into the one or more various holes 30 and/or pockets 40 for storage and/or display. The display retaining means may be a sheet or a transparent material. The pocket securing means may be a gathered material, an elastomeric material or fastening means.
Patent GB-2413731-A (GB)
Title: Transferring Home Location Register (HLR) data between nodes in a wireless, ad-hoc network
Inventor: THEISEN NANNA SVANE
IPC: H04N7/16
Filed: 2004-04-28
Abstract: A method of controlling location information of subscribers 210, 212, 222 in a wireless, ad-hoc communications network 200. The network 200 comprises a plurality of nodes (base stations) 204, 216, 226 wherein each of the nodes has a Visitor Location Register (VLR) 208, 220, 230 and at least a portion of the nodes are provided with Home Location Registers (HLRs) 206, 218 228. When an operation of a first node 216 is to be reconfigured, for example, due to the addition of a new node or disconnection or movement of the first node 216, at least a part of the records from a first HLR 218 assigned to the first node 216 is transferred to at least one of the other nodes 226 of the network 200. The transfer is preferably controlled by a control unit which selects the target node(s) 226 and creates a back-up copy of the first HLR 218 which can be used if an error occurs during the transfer. Depending on circumstances, all or only part of the HLR records can be transferred and the transferred records can be assigned to a new HLR at the target node(s), which may or may not already have a HLR, or merged with records in a HLR already at the target node(s).
Patent GB-2400722-A (GB)
Title: Multimedia presentation that assists a user in the playing of a musical instrument
Inventor: BRINKMAN JOHN
IPC: G06Q20/00
Filed: 2002-11-19
Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method to deliver a multimedia presentation of an audio file to a computing device (102) for display to a user and further to allow the user to play a musical instrument (112) in conjunction with the multimedia presentation. In response to a user selecting a musical piece at the computing device (102), a server (104) transmits a session file associated with the musical piece to the computing device (102) through a computer network (105). The session file includes an audio file and multimedia data such that the computing device (102) can process the session file to present the multimedia presentation of the audio file to the user An interface device (106) is connected to the computing device (102) and to the user's musical instrument (112). The interface device (106) couples the musical instrument (112) to the computing device (102) such that the user can play the musical instrument (112) in conjunction with the multimedia presentation of the audio file.
Patent GB-2404715-A (GB)
Title: Non-contact type magnetic wheel transmission structure
Inventor: LIUE YUNG-HO
IPC: H02K49/10
Filed: 2004-07-14
Abstract: A non-contact type wheel transmission structure is disclosed to include two transmission wheels <B>1</B> set in proximity to each other without contact, each transmission wheel <B>1</B> having grooves <B>11</B> equiangularly spaced around the periphery and magnets <B>12</B> respectively fixedly mounted in the grooves <B>11</B>, the magnets <B>12</B> of one of transmission wheel <B>1</B> being reversed in polarity to the magnets <B>12</B> of the other transmission wheel <B>1</B> for causing magnetic attraction between the transmission wheels <B>1</B>. Preferably the grooves <B>11</B> and magnets <B>12</B> are trapezoidal. Preferably the transmission wheels <B>1</B> comprise a protective coating. As an independent claim: A wheel transmission structure as above, however wherein the magnets/ grooves are spaced around the border of the side face of the wheels.
Patent GB-2402900-A (GB)
Title: A work piece clamp assembly
Inventor: CHEAH SINGEE
IPC: B25B5/06
Filed: 2003-06-26
Abstract: A work piece clamp assembly for supporting at least two different work pieces, comprising a frame 12, a plurality of clamp devices 14 mounted on the frame 12 and operable in a first phase to clamp a first work piece at a corresponding plurality of clamping sites thereon and in a second phase to clamp a second work piece at a corresponding plurality of clamping sites thereon. The clamp devices 14 further comprising a lower pair of clamp members 30, 32 and an upper pair of clamp members 36, 38, actuating means 40, 34 for independently actuating the lower and upper clamp members between respective clamped and unclamped positions.
Patent GB-2418830-A (GB)
Title: A horse rug for a mare with foal at foot
Inventor: WALKER RENEE
IPC: A01K13/00
Filed: 2004-10-09
Abstract: A horse rug with a cut away section 3 at the tail end of the rug, for use on a mare with a foal at foot. The cut away section allows the foal easy access to suckle. The blanket is also fitted with safety straps 1, 2 and 4 which will break under extreme force such as in the event of the foal becoming caught up in the straps.