baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2495661-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for transforming a pressure drop into a continuous fluid flow
Inventor: SPRECKELMEYER NIKO
IPC: E21B21/10
Filed: 2011-07-26
Abstract: An apparatus energizes a consumer of a pressurized fluid using a high pressure source and a low pressure source. The apparatus may include a fluid circuit in fluid communication with the consumer. The fluid circuit may have a first and a second reservoir. In one arrangement, the fluid circuit may have a flow control device in pressure communication with the first pressure source and the second pressure source, the flow control device being configured to cycle a pressure applied to the first and the second reservoirs using the first pressure source and the second pressure source. In some arrangements, the fluid circuit may include a flow device configured to flow fluid from a second branch to a first branch of the reservoir, and a flow control device in fluid communication with the flow device, the flow control device being configured to cycle a pressure applied to the flow device.
Patent GB-2513292-A (GB)
Title: Fire Barrier
Inventor: ATKINS CLIVE
IPC: E04B1/94
Filed: 2013-02-20
Abstract: A fire barrier, in particular a fire barrier suitable for use with railway carriages. The barrier having a first layer being a synthetic fibre insulating material which may be a non-woven felt type material and may be a polyamide, an aromatic polyamide or may be a polysilicic acid. The barrier has a second layer being an intumescent material and may be a coating applied to at least part of one side of the first layer, an epoxy, sodium silicate, potassium silicate and a rheological modifier may be present which could be graphite, amorphous carbon or carbon black. The fire barrier provided herein is intended to be placed within, under, or on top of the floor of a train carriage so that in the event of a fire, for example, due to spillages or derailment, the carriage is insulated from fire for as long as possible. The barrier is lightweight and therefore can be retro-fitted or used to replace fire barriers in existing train carriages to maximise weight savings.
Patent GB-2513554-A (GB)
Title: Passenger module for a seating array for an aircraft cabin
Inventor: LAWSON NIGEL
IPC: B64D11/06
Filed: 2013-03-28
Abstract: A passenger module 4 for a seating array 1 for an aircraft cabin comprises a pair of end walls 10,11 generally extending in a first direction connected by at least one side wall 12,13 generally extending in a second direction which is substantially orthogonal to the first direction. At least one of the walls defines an aperture or entrance 16 to the module. At least one door assembly (17,18, fig 7) is moveable from a stowed position in which the entrance is unobstructed by the door assembly to a deployed position in which the entrance is at least partially obstructed by the door assembly. The module further includes an ottoman 8 and a seat assembly 7 orientated in the second direction so as to face the ottoman. The ottoman is spaced from the seat in the second direction and the ottoman is wider in the first direction than the seat.
Patent GB-2512876-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for quantifying inflammation
Inventor: KUBASSOVA OLGA
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2013-04-09
Abstract: An image of tissue or anatomy obtained by, Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI, MRI, CT or ultrasound is analysed possibly by application of a continuous function and comprises determining a value quantifying inflammation in the tissue. The value is a continuous score value and small changes in the inflammation result in a change in the determined value. The analysis may involve determining a temporal pattern of contrast agent uptake and could involve analyzing a region of interest or the whole image. It may also involve classifying the image pixels into groups representative of a tissue type. The invention may quantify both aggressiveness and volume of the inflammation and is applicable to diagnosis or treatment of rheumatoid arthritis(RA)
Patent GB-2513375-A (GB)
Title: A bag
Inventor: PENNA IGNATIUS
IPC: A61B19/02
Filed: 2013-04-25
Abstract: A bag for medical equipment having two sides at least one side comprising a transparent window (5) the bag being provided with a sterile interior. The bag is sealed along three edges and has integrated means for sealing the forth edge, the sealing means being available when either side of the bag is uppermost. Preferably the sealing means comprises a plurality, typically two, seals (2,3) at least one of which may be detached from the bag. At least one of the sides may comprise a block colour graphic (4) which may be used to indicate whether the bag is presently sterile.
Patent GB-2515093-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to furniture
Inventor: STANNAH ALAN NEIL RUSSELL
IPC: A47B81/06
Filed: 2013-06-14
Abstract: The invention provides an item of furniture 10, preferably in the form of a table, that incorporates an electrical appliance such as a television (11, figure 4). The television may be incorporated in a pivoting leaf 13 defining or forming part of the table top. The tabletop may be motorized and operable via remote control.
Patent GB-2516474-A (GB)
Title: A colour balance processor
Inventor: NENONEN PETRI
IPC: H04N5/235
Filed: 2013-07-24
Abstract: A method of correcting colour balance comprising: capturing an image pair, one image is taken with a flash and the other with no flash in ambient light. The method further comprises forming at least one weighted masked area within the images by masking at least one area of the images with a weighting mask; and determining an impact metric indicating the combined impact of the brightness and pixel colour components for the at least one weighted masked area. This method corrects for colour imbalance, and white balances. The method may also include discarding saturated pixels from either of the images prior to correction processing.
Patent GB-2504894-A (GB)
Title: Data storage system
Inventor: LOW RICHARD
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2012-05-24
Abstract: A system(1) comprises a plurality of data structures. Each of the data structures comprises an association to a disjoint key range Ri = [k_i,k_{i+1}), where k_i is an ordered sequence arranged to be held in an internal memory (3) key range index. The system is arranged to allow membership queries for a key within the system to be performed by searching the key range index for the unique range Ri containing the key, and then querying the data structure associated with the range Ri for membership of the key.
Patent GB-2520739-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for treatment of aqueous dispersion
Inventor: RITCHIE DANIEL THOMAS EXLEY
IPC: C02F1/463
Filed: 2013-11-29
Abstract: A method for applying electrocoagulation treatment to an aqueous dispersion (7, Fig. 1) includes flowing the dispersion through a region comprising sacrificial electrodes (4, Fig. 1) between opposed electrodes (3, Fig. 1) and applying a voltage across the opposed electrodes to pass a current through the sacrificial electrodes causing donation of cations to the aqueous dispersion. The voltage polarity is alternated at intervals T periodically. Following each reversal of polarity, the aqueous dispersion flow rate through the region between the opposed electrodes is arranged to have a value of FR or more, for a period TR of at least 0.05T, wherein FR is 1.1 FM or more and wherein FM is the mean flow rate between each reversal. An apparatus for applying the electrocoagulation treatment comprises a flow-through chamber (1, Fig. 1) containing the opposed and sacrificial electrodes; a power supply (2, Fig. 1); a flow control unit (5, Fig. 1), such as an in-line pump, which controls the flow rate through the chamber; and a controller (6, Fig. 1) to control the power supply and the flow control unit to vary the voltage, current and flow rate according to the method. This arrangement reduces oxide build-up on the electrodes.
Patent GB-2521199-A (GB)
Title: A lock
Inventor: JENKINS PHILIP
IPC: E05B27/06
Filed: 2013-12-13
Abstract: A lock having a housing with a socket and a cylinder plug inside the sock, the housing having a first row of outer locking holes 152 for receiving driver pins and a second row of locking holes 230, preferably also a third row, located radially around from the initial set of holes 130. This second set comprising relocker pins 240. The second and third row of outer pins prevent the plug 30 being rotated relative to the housing 20 to such an extent that the lock unlatches when it is bumped as the relocker pins engage with inner locking holes located in the plug. Preferably the radial width of the holes in the second and third rows of outer locking holes is narrower than the holes in the first row of locking holes. The relocker pins may have an upper part and a lower part, preferably each having an angled or slopping surface which engage with each other (Fig 4/5), the pins may also be shaped to prevent returning of the relocker pin (347 Fig 5).
Patent GB-2510967-A (GB)
Title: Discharge switch device for ignition excitation system
Inventor: COCHRAN MICHAEL JOSEPH
IPC: F02P3/08
Filed: 2013-12-18
Abstract: A discharge switch device (108, figure 1) is placed in series between a storage capacitor (106, figure 1) and a pulse forming network (110, figure 1) which applies a pulse to an igniter (118, figure 1). In the switch 108, the comparator 204 activates the main thyristor switch 226, via the FET 222 and the transformer 216, when a divided version of the voltage between the terminals 114 and 116 exceeds a reference voltage provided by the series combination of a Zener diode 218 and a forward-biased PN diode 220. This diode combination provides good reference voltage temperature stability. The discharge switch device provides better consistency of ignition pulse energy than a spark gap, which may use radioactive materials, and enables a more temperature-stable storage capacitor voltage than a breakover diode.
Patent GB-2511923-A (GB)
Title: A cladding light stripper and method of manufacturing
Inventor: HOU KAI-CHUNG
IPC: G02B6/02
Filed: 2014-01-24
Abstract: A cladding light stripper for an optical double clad fibre (DCF) laser having a core 22 for guiding light and inner and outer cladding layers 24, 25, where the inner cladding layer has an exposed region 26 which has notches 29 to allow light in the cladding layer to be stripped or removed from the device, where the notches do not reach the fibre core. The inner core may be doped so that light in the core is amplified. There may be a plurality of grooves which may vary along the length of the exposed section. A heat sink 38 may be included which dissipates heat produced by stripped light. A pump diode may be included to pump light along the core region. The notches may be formed using laser cutting.
Patent GB-2524314-A (GB)
Title: Heating control system
Inventor: BACH HARRY WILLIAM
IPC: F24D19/10
Filed: 2014-03-20
Abstract: A central heating control system for controlling the central heating of a dwelling. A central heating system is provided with a control module for switching the heating system between on and off modes in response to signals at a transceiver. The on and off modes are set on a screen of a graphical user interface where strips are displayed relative to a clock. A user contacts the strip and by dragging either end, the strip is expanded or contracted to increase or decrease a respective time period over which the heating system is to be switched on. The time period is transmitted to the control module. The graphical user interface is on a smartphone, tablet or computer to allow remote control from an internet enabled device and thereby provide active management of resource usage. The system may transmit data via the internet.
Patent GB-2512233-A (GB)
Title: Anal insertion device
Inventor: HITCHCOCK JON
IPC: A61L29/04
Filed: 2012-11-23
Abstract: An insertion device (1) for an anal irrigation system comprises a positioning member (5) and at least one exit aperture (7) separated by a hollow shaft (3), wherein the structure of the device is weakened upon immersion in a toilet bowl such that the device can be flushed away.
Patent GB-2517347-A (GB)
Title: Wire handling for vehicle glazing panel cut out
Inventor: FINCK WILLIAM
IPC: B65H75/00
Filed: 2010-02-19
Abstract: A dispensing system for dispensing cutting wire to be used in a glazing panel cut out procedure comprises a mount 75 placed on a glazing panel with a docking station 89 and a wire store 50 mounted on the docking station 89 and is demountable from the docking station 89. The docking station 89 may have rotary means which can pay out the cutting wire from the wire store 50. The applied torque of the rotary means may be adjustable by an adjustable brake which may be controlled by a cam and lever 94 and may be a friction brake. A spool 52 of the store may rotate with the rotary device. The store 50 may have a central aperture to accommodate the rotary device. The mount 75 may be a suction mount. A wire store 50 comprises an annular housing 51 with arcuate outer walls 54 which contain a gap and an annular spool body 52 received within the walls 54. The housing 51 and spool body 52 rotate relative to each other.
Patent GB-2534164-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle interface device
Inventor: JEAN-JACQUES LOEILLET
IPC: G08G1/16
Filed: 2015-01-14
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle interface device configured to output a haptic signal to indicate a potential hazard. The apparatus includes at least one haptic generator configured to generate a haptic signal; and a processor for controlling the haptic generator. The processor is configured to determine an angular position of the identified object relative to the vehicle in dependence on object data relating to an identified object representing a potential hazard. A control signal is generated to cause the haptic generator to output a haptic signal for providing an indication of the determined relative position of the identified object. The control signal is modified to progressively change the generated haptic signal to represent changes in the relative angular position of the identified object. The present disclosure also relates to a vehicle incorporating a vehicle interface device.
Patent GB-2531087-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for video coding and decoding
Inventor: GUILLAUME LAROCHE
IPC: H04N19/86
Filed: 2015-01-29
Abstract: Encoding a sequence of images comprising performing area-by-area filtering on an image of the sequence, where area-by-area filtering involves selectively applying a filter to different image areas; associating to each image a level corresponding to different image qualities or rate distortion costs; producing a measure of filtering activity in an image based on filtering activity in blocks not used as predictor blocks for an intra block copy mode in which a block is encoded based on an actual block of the current image; and determining other images on which filtering is enabled or disabled in dependence upon the levels and measure. In a second invention the measure is instead based on filtering activity in blocks not encoded using a mode adapted for screen content (such as intra block copy or palette mode encoding). Preferably, the filtering is loop filtering such as sample adaptive offset filtering). The measure may be a ratio of the number of coding elements that require filtering to the number of blocks respectively not used as an IntraBC predictor or not encoded in a screen content mode. If this measure is above a threshold 2210, filtering may be enabled 2211 on all subsequent images having a lower level. Corresponding decoding claims included.
Patent GB-2519036-A (GB)
Title: Railway carriage interconnection system
Inventor: FAOU GLENN LE
IPC: B61D17/22
Filed: 2013-07-01
Abstract: A railway carriage (1) has an interconnection system for coupling the carriage to another carriage and forming a passage between the two carriages, whether the carriages are moving or stationary. An opening (8) at the end of the carriage is provided with an outer door (6), behind which a passage module (7) is mounted. A driving system (22) can extend the passage module through the opening when the outer door is opened, and can retract the passage module. A coupling portion (11) engages with a coupling portion on another railway carriage, there being a driving system (22) for extending the coupling portion away from the end of the carriage and for retracting the coupling portion. An inner door (9) can be moved to as to permit or prevent passage through the passage module. When two carriages are coupled together, the respective passage modules form a passage for a person to pass between the carriages.
Patent GB-2522351-A (GB)
Title: Rejuvenation of subsea electrical distribution systems
Inventor: DOUGLAS NEIL IRWIN
IPC: H02G1/16
Filed: 2014-02-14
Abstract: A rejuvenation method for a cable used in a subsea environment, the method comprising applying a bias signal to a conducting element (2a, 2b) of the cable (2), the bias signal being selected to improve the insulation properties of the cable (2).
Patent GB-2537105-A (GB)
Title: Air conditioning system
Inventor: GREGORY MCGOWAN
IPC: F24F5/00
Filed: 2015-03-30
Abstract: An air conditioning system 1 having a housing and comprises a first cooling chamber 5 with an air inlet 11 and air outlet 13 whereby a fan 17 creates a current of air within the first chamber towards a container 15 containing a quantity of refrigerant gas. A pipe 31 extends from the gas container through a wall 9 into a second chamber 7, passing an adjacent defrosting coil 33 before returning into the first chamber and to the gas container. A first valve 25 releases a quantity of gas from the gas container into the pipe when the gas pressure reaches a predetermined level thereby lowering the temperature of the contained gas, and a second valve 45 selectively permits gas to re-enter said gas container to increase the pressure within. The system does not require a compressor and is therefore lighter and less bulky than conventional air conditioners.
Patent GB-2520888-A (GB)
Title: Devices for controlling the downforce generated by a vehicle
Inventor: PARRY-WILLIAMS DAN
IPC: B62D35/02
Filed: 2013-08-23
Abstract: A vehicle comprising a ï¬‚ap that is attached to the vehicle in such a way as to permit movement of the flap from a first position to a second position, wherein the flap is configured to alter the downforce generated by the vehicle when the vehicle is in motion by affecting the airflow underneath the vehicle, the effect of the ï¬‚ap on the airï¬‚ow being dependent upon the second position of the flap.
Patent GB-2529044-A (GB)
Title: Method of simulating a real-time aircraft system input to an avionics component
Inventor: DABROWSKI STEPHEN
IPC: B64F5/00
Filed: 2015-06-16
Abstract: A method of simulating a real-time aircraft system input to an avionics component 24 for an aircraft includes receiving the simulation input and providing the simulated input to the avionics component 24. An avionics system 10 has connections to a plurality of data generating inputs 12, or data streams, which are provided to a data bus 22. The data bus 22 provides input data to an avionics system component. Simulated data streams 113 can be fed to the avionics data bus from a memory storage device via a playback device 142.
Patent GB-2523698-A (GB)
Title: Engine block of a diesel engine with integrated cylinder head, and casting method
Inventor: MANDORFER RUDOLF
IPC: F02F1/40
Filed: 2013-12-10
Abstract: The invention relates to an engine block for a diesel engine with multiple cylinders in a series arrangement, said engine block being integrally cast with the cylinder head. The engine block has an outer wall (21) and a respective cylinder wall (13) with a first cooling chamber (22) for a liquid coolant between the outer wall and the cylinder wall, and the engine block has a second cooling chamber (25) over a cylinder base (14). The cylinder base (14) has openings (15, 16) for gas exchange valves, and the first cooling chamber (22) encloses all of the cylinder walls (13). The aim of the invention is to reinforce and optimally cool the vulnerable zone at the transition from the cylinder wall (13) to the cylinder base (14). According to the invention, the first cooling chamber (22) forms a gap (23) between the cylinder walls (13) of adjacent cylinders, the width (35) of said gap being constant or increasing from top to bottom.
Patent GB-2540614-A (GB)
Title: Lighter than air vehicle
Inventor: NICHOLAS GIACOMO ROBERT COLOSIMO
IPC: B64B1/58
Filed: 2015-07-24
Abstract: Disclosed is a lighter than air vehicle 2 comprising: an envelope 34 containing a lighter than air gas, part of the envelope is transparent and permits the passage of light 28, and a system 46 that selectively redirects the light which passes through the envelope. The vehicle may further comprise a plurality of devices 44, 50, such as a solar panel or a camera, for receiving the light. The system that selectively redirects the light may be for redirecting the light onto one of the devices. The system that redirects the light may be a concave mirror. There may be a further mirror (56, fig. 6) located at a focal point of the concave mirror, the further mirror being configured to move with respect to the concave mirror. The mirror may be a deformable mirror. The deformable mirror may be deformable by way of a plurality of selectively inflatable pouches 64 coupled between the concave mirror and the envelope. The inflatable pouches may be independently inflatable.
Patent GB-2543753-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle cabin inspection system and method
Inventor: GUILLAUME JEGOU
IPC: G01V5/00
Filed: 2015-10-21
Abstract: An inspection system 100 featuring a radiation source 101, a collimator 103 configured to collimate the radiation 40 from the source into an inspection beam 41 so to as to enable irradiation of a vehicle 20 which, in some embodiments is a lorry, and a filter 102 located between the source and the collimator. The filter, in different configurations, interacts with the inspection radiation to produce a cargo inspection dose (Fig. 4A, D0) and a cabin inspection dose (Fig. 4b, D1), where the cargo dose is greater than the cabin dose and these filter configurations are controlled by a controller. Optionally, this method enables irradiation of the cabin when occupied by a person (Fig. 2, 27) and optionally, inspection is enabled by transmission of radiation through the vehicle 20. Optionally, the inspection system and vehicle move independently of each other.
Patent GB-2527712-A (GB)
Title: Apertured nonwoven materials and methods for forming the same
Inventor: HARDIE STEPHEN LEBEUF
IPC: D04H3/147
Filed: 2014-05-08
Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed, in part, to a selectively apertured nonwoven material forming a portion of a disposable absorbent article. The nonwoven material comprises a layer of bicomponent fibers, and a plurality of apertures formed in the layer of bicomponent fibers. Each aperture has a major axis and a minor axis. Each major axis is larger than each minor axis. Each major axis has a length of greater than about 1.5mm and less than about 10mm and each minor axis has a length of greater than about 0.4mm and less than about 1.25mm. The nonwoven material has a basis weight of less than 25gsm, but greater than 10gsm. The layer of bicomponent fibers has an effective open area greater than about 3% but less than about 30%. The apertures have an aperture area greater than about 0.5mm2 and less than about 10mm2.