baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2547176-A (GB)
Title: Control system and method for supply of power to active magnetic bearings in a rotating machine
Inventor: Jorgen Harald Corneliussen
IPC: G05B9/03
Filed: 2015-12-08
Abstract: A control system and a method are disclosed arranged for redundant supply of power to active magnetic bearings (6, 7, 8) adapted for support of a shaft or rotor in a rotating machine. The control system comprises at least two control modules (12, 12') which are supplied external power (34, 34'). The control modules are connectable to a base module (13) comprising a first set of power and sensor signal pathways (A1-A4) which can be switched in to provide contact between a first control module and the active magnetic bearings, and a second set of power and sensor signal pathways (B1-B4) which can be switched in to provide contact between a second control module and the active magnetic bearings. Each control module comprises a switching mechanism (18, 18') which is controllable for connecting the control modules one at a time to the active magnetic bearings via the first set or via the second set of power and sensor signal pathways.
Patent GB-2565813-A (GB)
Title: Mixing vessel for consumable substances
Inventor: Duncan Garnsworthy
IPC: B65D79/00
Filed: 2017-08-23
Abstract: A mixing vessel 200 for consumable substances comprising chamber 215 for receiving consumable substances for mixing and sealing member 210 having at least two stable spatial configurations to change a volume of the chamber wherein the sealing member is arranged to transition between the at least two stable spatial configurations on application of pressure generated within the chamber during mixing to increase the volume of the internal chamber. Ideally, the sealing member comprises a deformable diaphragm with an un-extended spatial configuration and an extended or expanded spatial configuration that increases the volume of the chamber. Ideally, the chamber is located within an outer wall 220 with a cavity 290 between the outer wall and the chamber. A method of using the vessel comprises adding first and second consumable substances to the chamber wherein at least one of the substances is a liquid, sealing the vessel with the sealing member and mixing the substances by shaking the vessel wherein mixing generates a pressure within the chamber that results in the sealing member transitioning from the first to the second spatial configuration with an expansion of the vessel volume. Ideally, the vessel mixes hot beverages. A method of manufacturing the vessel is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2571502-A (GB)
Title: Mobile device multi camera system
Inventor: TIMOTHY ONYENOBI
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2017-09-30
Abstract: A Mobile/Smart phone/Tablet device camera lens system which includes eight camera lenses 6 which are positioned at the top 7, sides, front and rear of the device are arranged to capture greater than 180 degree, both horizontally and vertically, images or videos. The lenses may be retractable or fixed, projecting or non-projecting, automatically or manually controlled and enclosed or not enclosed. Object tracking and focused view may also be used. Sensors may be used to assist with object tracking and focusing. The lens system may respond to a gyroscope. The lens enclosure may be made of transparent, semi-transparent or opaque material. The aim of the invention is to overcome the limited field of view (cone shape) of traditional smart phone camera systems by providing a continuous dome shape coverage formed by overlapping cones.
Patent GB-2559446-A (GB)
Title: Generating a three-dimensional model from a scanned object
Inventor: Duygu Ceylan
IPC: G06T19/00
Filed: 2017-10-09
Abstract: A 3D modelling system 812 receives a scan, comprising one or more images and depth information, of a three-dimensional object with custom mesh lines; generates an edge map 816 by detecting edges corresponding to the custom mesh lines; and constructs a 3D mesh 818 of the 3D object using the edge map and depth information, the 3D mesh comprising polygons corresponding to the custom mesh lines. In some embodiments the scan further comprises two-dimensional texture map of the 3D object. The edges of the edge map may be thinned to have uniform pixel thickness. The 2D texture map may be generated by aligning one or more images of the scan; it may further comprises converting the depth information and aligned information from a 3D domain to a 2D domain. The edge map may be generated by generating a binary representation of the 2D texture map.
Patent GB-2555012-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for registering surgical images
Inventor: SIU WAI JACKY MAK
IPC: G16H30/40
Filed: 2015-03-17
Abstract: A computing device and method for registering surgical images, the computing device stores a preoperative image of patient tissue registered to a frame of reference of a tracking system; and receives, from a first imaging device, a first intraoperative image of a first region of the tissue, with a finer resolution than the preoperative image. The computing device receives a position of the first imaging device from the tracking system, and registers the first intraoperative image with the frame of reference. The computing device receives, from a second imaging device, a second intraoperative image of a second region of the patient tissue, with a finer resolution than the first intraoperative image. The computing device registers the second intraoperative image to the first intraoperative image; and controls a display to present the preoperative image overlaid with the first intraoperative image, and the first intraoperative image overlaid with the second intraoperative image.
Patent GB-2557448-A (GB)
Title: Door assembly
Inventor: SATYANARAYANA RAJU VEMULAPATI
IPC: F16F7/12
Filed: 2017-11-02
Abstract: A door assembly 32 includes a door 34 and a pusher 36, the door defining a cavity 38. The pusher is fixed to the door in the cavity and the pusher contains a non-Newtonian fluid. The non-Newtonian fluid allows the pusher to distribute an impact force to an occupant in a manner that depends on a size of the occupant. The pusher may include a case or a case body 70 and lid 72 sealed to the body to define a pusher cavity 74. The door assembly may include a door outer 58 and a door trim 56 fixed to the door outer, defining the cavity therebetween. The pusher may be fixed to the door trim, integral with the door trim or attached to the door inner 54. The non-Newtonian fluid may be a dilatant fluid. Finally, the door assembly may be for a vehicle comprising a seat, a seat bottom and a seat back defining an occupant area between the seat bottom and seat back.
Patent GB-2560422-A (GB)
Title: Two bit error calibration device for 128 bit transfer and the method for performing the same
Inventor: CHIN PEN CHANG
IPC: G06F11/10
Filed: 2018-01-18
Abstract: A method for determining two single bit errors in the transmission of a 128 bit data word is provided. The method starts by dividing the 128 data into 32 four bit sets 50 and deriving 16 calibration bits 91 from the data sets. The data is sent as two 64 bit data words via 64 bit data ports with the calibration bits. The received calibration bits are compared with calibration bits calculated from the received 128 bit data. If two single bit errors are detected the checksums and bit sums calculated will show the differences and the data set and the position of the bit errors will be detected and the errors corrected. The calibration bits may include nine bits for determining the two data sets having the two transfer error bits, and seven bits for determining the data set having two error bits. The calibration bits may be checksums of bit strings of determined bits from the data sets and bit sums of determined data sets.
Patent GB-2561673-A (GB)
Title: Housing assembly for a computer system and computer system
Inventor: WILHELM NEUKAM
IPC: H05K9/00
Filed: 2018-02-16
Abstract: A housing assembly for a computer system 1, includes at least one first shielding casing 2 with a plurality of ventilation openings 9c in a first housing wall 14a, and at least one second shielding casing 3 with a second plurality of ventilation openings 9f in a second housing wall 27. A first contact area 25 of the first housing wall 14a directly borders a corresponding contact area 28 of the second housing wall 27. At least one of the first housing wall 14a and the second housing wall 27 comprises a recess 26 so that the ventilation openings 9c of the first casing 2 are spaced apart from the ventilation openings 9f of the second casing 3. Preferably, at least one fan 10 in the first casing 2 creates an airflow 13b into the second casing 3 via pressure chamber 29. The computer system 1 may be an all-in-one desktop computer with first casing 2 housing a motherboard 20 and processor 18 and the second casing 3 housing a converter circuit of a fanless PSU 5. Ventilation openings 9c may have a different arrangement and diameter to ventilation openings 9f.
Patent GB-2571287-A (GB)
Title: Data processing
Inventor: RICHARD JAMES FORSTER
IPC: G06T7/80
Filed: 2018-02-22
Abstract: Display characteristics (e.g. colour, illumination) of an object 1000 (e.g. LED-illuminated games controller, display screen) are changed with time in a timing calibration operation, and images of the object are captured using video cameras (1030, 1040, 1050). Differences in time between images indicating a change in the characteristic captured by the cameras are detected, and the detected differences are applied as a timing correction to synchronise images captured by the cameras after the timing calibration operation. The changes to the characteristics may be regular or irregular; two successive periods may be of the same or different lengths. Successive periods may have a length equal to a multiple of a video frame period of at least one of the cameras. Each camera may have an associated control (1032, 1042, 1052) which detects a change in characteristics with respect to a local timing source (1034, 1044, 1054), and which provides a message inclusive of a local timestamp to apparatus (1020) which compares all provided messages to detect differences. Discrepancies between local camera timing sources (1034, 1044, 1054) may therefore be corrected, allowing improvement in e.g. head mountable (HMD) mixed (virtual) reality apparatus use.
Patent GB-2567934-A (GB)
Title: Pump Assembly With User-Accessible Wet Region
Inventor: FRANCESCO SINICO
IPC: F04D29/42
Filed: 2018-08-29
Abstract: A centrifugal pump assembly 10, with electric motor 19, arranged in a stator housing 11, wherein a box 13, containing an electrical board 14 and closed at the free end by a lid 15, is arranged at an axial end of the stator housing 11, the pump assembly 10 comprising a wet region, further comprising a plug 35 which has, at one end, a contour 43 adapted to enter a hole connected to the wet region, acting as a flow control element, and, at the other end, a head 40 adapted to be easily accessible to the user, the plug 35 having such a length that the outer surface of the head 40 is at a level that is proximate to the level of the lid 15 of the box 13 in a closed configuration.
Patent GB-2580160-A (GB)
Title: Hardware module for converting numbers
Inventor: STEPHEN FELIX
IPC: H03M7/24
Filed: 2018-12-21
Abstract: A hardware module converts an n bit unsigned integer i to a sign/magnitude format integer of the value 2i-(2n-1). This may then be used to produce a floating-point number between -1 and 1 by adding a mantissa of -2(n+1). If the most significant bit of the input is one, then each of the n-1 most significant bits of the result are set to the n-1 least significant bits of the input and the sign bit of the result is cleared. If the most significant bit of the input is zero, then the n-1 most significant bits of the result are set to the inverse of the n-1 least significant bits of the input and the sign bit of the result is set. The n-1 most significant bits of the result may be calculated using an exclusive nor gate, which takes the most significant bit and the corresponding bit of the n-1 bits of the input as inputs. The sign bit may be calculated using a not gate with the most significant bit of the input as an input. The least significant bit of the output may be set to one.
Patent GB-2580182-A (GB)
Title: A system and method for controlling mobile device signalling
Inventor: LEO BOONCHIN PATANAPONGIBUL
IPC: H04W60/00
Filed: 2018-12-24
Abstract: An apparatus 22 comprises a user equipment interface 24 configured to send an identify request to a user equipment (UE) device 30 in response to receiving a request to update location and to subsequently receive an identify response from the UE, control logic 26 configured to extract and identify the mobile country code (MCC) and mobile network code (MNC) of the UE from the identify response; and a network interface 28 configured to forward the identify request to a public land mobile network (PLMN) 32 and to receive a mobility management information (MMI) message in response. The control logic dynamically modifies a network name in the MMI message, based on the identified MNC and MCC of the UE. The user equipment interface forwards the MMI message to the UE. The UE displays the modified network name such that different UEs cab display different network names. The apparatus may be part of a base station located in an aircraft.
Patent GB-2580638-A (GB)
Title: Biocompatible sealed ceramic metal assembly
Inventor: ABDELOUAHAB ZIANI
IPC: C22C16/00
Filed: 2019-01-18
Abstract: A component assembly, and method of formation, is disclosed which comprises a metallic component comprising a titanium or titanium alloy; a ceramic component; and a metallic filler comprising a titanium-zirconium-cobalt alloy capable of forming a liquidus below the β-transus temperature of the titanium or titanium alloy, in the presence of the metallic component and the ceramic component. The metallic filler is disposed between the metallic component and the ceramic component to form a hermetic seal; said metallic filler has a cytotoxicity of extractable substances from the metallic filler as a numerical grade no greater than 2 according to ISO 10993-5.
Patent GB-2572060-A (GB)
Title: Child safety seat
Inventor: ROBERT SCOTT ANDERSON
IPC: B60N2/28
Filed: 2017-06-13
Abstract: A child safety seat 100 includes a support base 102, a rotary platform 104 and a child seat 106. The support base 102 is suitable for placement on a vehicle seat and includes a first 130 and a second 132 flange portion vertically spaced apart from each other, the second flange portion 132 being located below the first flange portion 130. The rotary platform 104 is pivotally connected with the support base 102 about a pivot axis. The child seat 106 is connected to the rotary platform 104, the child seat 106 and the rotary platform 104 being rotatable in unison as a seat unit 126 relative to the support base 102 between a plurality of positions including a forward-facing position, a rearward facing position and a sideways facing position. The seat unit 126 is engaged with the first flange portion 130 in the forward-facing position with the first flange portion 130 located adjacent a shoulder support region 134 of the child seat 106, and the seat unit 126 is engaged with the second flange portion 132 and disengaged from the first flange portion 132 in the rearward facing position.
Patent GB-2574318-A (GB)
Title: Electronic device, control method thereof, program, and storage medium
Inventor: HIROSHI NODA
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2019-04-17
Abstract: An electronic device comprises: setting means operable by a user to set a value for at least one exposure control parameter among aperture, shutter speed, and ISO sensitivity in 1/n-stop increments, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 8; and display control means to display 402 the set value for the exposure control parameter as a numerical value in one-stop increments and stop expression indicative of a stop that is less than one stop. In some embodiments a fraction serves as a stop expression. In other embodiments, where the stop less than one stop is m/n and m is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than n, m indicators are displayed as the stop expression (1702 Fig.17). The electronic device may further comprise imaging capturing means configured to capture an image based on the setting value set by the setting means.
Patent GB-2583464-A (GB)
Title: System and method for landing gear retraction
Inventor: PAUL GORDON L'ALLIER
IPC: B64C25/26
Filed: 2019-04-18
Abstract: A retractable landing gear on an aircraft is operated by a landing gear control system 20 having a manually operable lever or handle 26 movable from a first, e.g. gear-down, position to a second, e.g. gear-up position, in response to which a signal (e.g. a gear-up command) is outputted causing the landing gear to move to an up position. The landing gear control system 20 also includes a motor 40 configured to move the lever automatically in response to a signal, for example a signal received by a landing gear lever control unit 42 from a take-off detection system 46 which indicates that the aircraft has taken-off . There is further disclosed two methods of use, the first has the pilot overriding automatic retraction of the landing gear and initiating a manual retraction at a later point and the second has the pilot pre-emptively retract the landing gear prior to the automatic retraction.
Patent GB-2588896-A (GB)
Title: A beam seal fluid coupling assembly
Inventor: JONATHAN WILSON
IPC: F16J15/08
Filed: 2019-11-12
Abstract: A beam seal fluid coupling assembly 100 for a gas turbine engine (10, Figure 1) is provided. The beam seal fluid coupling assembly 100 comprises: a beam seal element (110, Figure 5); a first fluid conduit coupling component 103; and a second fluid conduit coupling component 104. The first and second fluid conduit coupling components 103, 104 are connectable to one another. The beam seal element 110 comprises an elongate section 112 defined by a circumferentially and longitudinally extending wall having a convoluted profile along the length of the elongate section 112 such that the elongate section is compressible; a lip seal 111 provided at a distal end of the beam seal element 110, the lip seal 111 extending from the wall in a radial direction; and an abutment surface 113 provided at an end of the elongate section 112 opposite the lip seal 111. The beam seal element 110 is providable between respective first and second mating surfaces 120, 121 of the first and second fluid conduit coupling components 103,104, such that the first mating surface 120 engages the abutment surface 113 of the beam seal element 110 and the second mating surface 121 engages the lip seal 111.
Patent GB-2588921-A (GB)
Title: Marine service tool
Inventor: VICTOR GREGORY MARSHALL
IPC: B63B13/00
Filed: 2019-11-14
Abstract: A marine service tool for replacing the seacock valves of a boat or vessel while in the water includes a tool body 6 with means of direct, or indirect attachment 7 to a seacock valve, a placement tube 10 that can be assembled in sections and can slide through a ring seal 9 to precisely place a deformable bung 13 in the bore of a through hull fitting of a boat when the seacock valve is open while maintaining the flooded tool body sealed against the external water pressure and the means of securing the tube 10 through the tightening of a seal retaining ring 8 and deforming the bung once located, by a tension element 14 and a tensioning part 16, so as to form a secure seal in the fitting to allow for the tool body 6 and its associated sealing components 8,9 to be dismantled in situ and removed, the defective seacock valve extracted and a replacement valve fitted under controlled conditions, in accordance with best pipework connection practice and without time pressures or constraints or any period of uncontrolled water flow through the pipework.
Patent GB-2589628-A (GB)
Title: Methods to automatically correct and improve system recovery and replication processes
Inventor: IAN CAMERON
IPC: G06F11/14
Filed: 2019-12-05
Abstract: A backup recovery and testing method is disclosed. The recovery method restores backed-up systems on a virtual machine according to a stored configuration 10, 12 and collects logs as the restored system starts up 22. The collected logs are compared with stored baseline logs 28, by a process which may include parsing the logs 30 into templates and parameters and identifying anomalies automatically 34 for example by principal component analysis. Anomalies identified are used to modify the stored configuration 18, and the restore is attempted again with the modified configurations until no further errors are identified. The method may be applied to multiple systems, which may be restored based on dependency between the systems.
Patent GB-2577435-A (GB)
Title: Chromatography mass spectrometry and chromatograph mass spectrometer
Inventor: AKIRA MAEKAWA
IPC: G01N30/86
Filed: 2017-06-12
Abstract: The present invention comprises: a step for adding, to a sample, an internal standard substance having a retention time similar to that of an analyte and a mass-to-charge ratio different from that of the analyte; a step for measuring the sample using a chromatograph mass spectrometer and obtaining a chromatogram 101 for the analyte and a chromatogram 102 for the internal standard substance; a step for detecting a peak 113 from the chromatogram for the internal standard substance and determining the peak start time and peak end time of the peak; and a step for applying the determined peak start time and peak end time to a peak start time and peak end time for the analyte chromatogram.
Patent GB-2582455-A (GB)
Title: Targeted mass analysis
Inventor: ALEXANDER ALEKSEEVICH MAKAROV
IPC: H01J49/00
Filed: 2014-09-10
Abstract: A mass spectrometer comprises an ion source and auxiliary ion detector downstream from the ion source that receives a plurality of first ion samples and determines a respective ion current measurement for each of the plurality of first ion samples. A mass analyser downstream from the ion source receives a second ion sample and generates mass spectral data by mass analysis of the second ion sample. An output stage establishes an abundance measurement associated with some of the ions generated by the ion source based on the ion current measurements determined by the auxiliary ion detector, e.g. based on a combination of the mass spectral data generated by the mass analyser and the ion current measurements. The mass spectral data is used to control the addition of reaction gas to a reaction cell upstream of the auxiliary detector to remove molecular interferences from the ion current measurement.
Patent GB-2595264-A (GB)
Title: Container with positioning mechanism
Inventor: CHIH FENG HO
IPC: B65D43/24
Filed: 2020-05-20
Abstract: A container includes a housing 10, a casing 30 pivotally connected to the housing 10 with a pivot axle 33, one or more magnetic members 20,21 engaged in the housing 10, and one or more magnetic elements 36,37 engaged in the casing 30 and disposed close to the magnetic member 20,21 for acting with the magnetic member 20,21 and for anchoring the casing 30 to the housing 10 in any selected hinged angular position. The housing includes a slot 18,19 formed in a seat 15,16, and the magnetic member 20,21 is engaged in the slot 18,19 of the seat 15,16. The housing includes a passage 17 formed in the seat, and the pivot axle 33 is engaged in the passage of the seat. The magnetic member includes an aperture 22 formed in the magnetic member for receiving and engaging with the pivot axle.