baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2590890-A (GB)
Title: A device and method for preventing infections during the drying of livestock
Inventor: COLIN SUTHERLAND
IPC: A61M25/10
Filed: 2019-09-24
Abstract: A teat sealing system includes a sealing balloon 100 and an associated air delivery syringe 120. Two O-rings 106a, 106b located on the neck of the balloon are maintained in an expanded state while the balloon is mounted on an elongate balloon-mounting lance 124 of the delivery syringe 120, allowing the balloon to be inflated. When released from the delivery syringe’s balloon-mounting lance 124 after balloon inflation, the O-rings 106a, 106b return to their contracted state, sealing the neck so that the balloon remains inflated. The syringe and elongate balloon-mounting lance may comprise co-operating male and female Luer taper connectors. In use, the balloon is inflated within the teat cistern of a dairy cow during the dry period of its lactation cycle, forming an airtight seal that helps to prevent infection.
Patent GB-2592446-A (GB)
Title: Variable geometry turbine
Inventor: STEPHEN DAVID HUGHES
IPC: F01D17/16
Filed: 2020-02-28
Abstract: A variable geometry turbine (VGT) comprises a wall movable to vary an inlet passageway between the inlet and turbine wheel, and a plurality of guide vanes 122 extending across the inlet passageway. The thickness of each vane at 5% of the chord from its leading edge 122a may be at least 50% of its maximum thickness to produce a blunt or bulbous leading edge. The thickness at 95% of the chord from its leading edge may be at least 40% of its maximum thickness, with a ratio of the vane trailing edge radius to the turbine wheel leading edge radius being 1.2 or greater. The vanes may produce a double wake variation in static pressure around a circumference of the turbine wheel. The vanes may have a shape at least partially defined by a thickness distribution that exponentially reduces from the leading to the trailing edge 122b, and an end treatment of the leading and trailing edges. The vanes may have a shape defined by the curves in Tables 3-6 or 9-12 multiplied by a scale factor, or defined by the thickness distribution in Table 1 and angular distribution in Table 2. Also disclosed are methods of designing vanes for a VGT.
Patent GB-2579949-A (GB)
Title: Sheet material connector
Inventor: ROBERT MARINUCCI
IPC: E04F19/06
Filed: 2018-08-07
Abstract: Apparatus and methods for joining sections of sheet material (e.g., drywall) are provided. The sheet material joining apparatus or connector comprises an elongated body having two channels disposed such that the ends of two sections of sheet material may be secured therein. The channels are defined by front and back walls interconnected via an internal rib. The front wall is configured to be disposed on the exposed side of the sheet material and the back wall is configured to be disposed on the back or hidden side of the sheet material, while the back wall takes the form of a convex arced surface. The convex arced surface is configured to be engaged by one or more securing elements (e.g., screw), and during such engagement to exert a resilient force onto the adjoining sections of sheet material to draw them inward toward the back wall of the connector.
Patent GB-2582702-A (GB)
Title: Laminated bearing assembly with differing shim thickness
Inventor: DEREK R WRIGHT
IPC: F16F1/40
Filed: 2020-03-11
Abstract: A bearing assembly 10 for movably coupling first and second members 1, 2 is provided. The bearing assembly 10 includes first and second laminated bodies 12, 14 disposed within a bore 3 of the second member 2; and spaced about a centre-line AR and connected with the first member 1. The first laminated body 12 is formed of alternating, arcuate first elastomeric laminae 18 and arcuate first rigid laminae 16 nested generally about a first central axis, each first rigid lamina 16 having a first radial thickness between inner and outer surfaces. The second laminated body 14 is formed of alternating, arcuate second elastomeric laminae 20 and arcuate second rigid laminae 22 nested generally about a second central axis, each second rigid lamina 22 having a second radial thickness between the rigid lamina inner and outer surfaces. The first radial thickness of the first rigid laminae 16 is substantially greater than the second radial thickness of the second rigid laminae 22 such that the second laminated body 14 has a lower stiffness than does the first laminated body 12.
Patent GB-2594305-A (GB)
Title: Anti-trip self contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) connector
Inventor: TONY CHRISTOPHER KEELEY
IPC: F16L37/30
Filed: 2020-04-22
Abstract: A self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) connector 110 comprising male 111 and female 112 parts that connect to provide a fluid coupling. The male part has a profiled plug body 116. The female part comprises a locking cage 122 having at least one locking member aperture 124, at least one locking member 126 such as a ball disposed in a respective locking member aperture, a locking bush 134, a back body 138, a locking sleeve 144, and a valve 158. The or each locking member aperture extends into a locking member travel path 125 extending at an acute angle to the longitudinal axis of the female part. The locking apertures may be circumferentially space around the part and locking members may be guided by a cam surface 146 of the locking sleeve. The locking bush may be biased against the locking member. The male part may comprise a valve 118.
Patent GB-2594462-A (GB)
Title: Adaptable ligature assembly
Inventor: NICHOLAS CARUANA
IPC: G10D9/02
Filed: 2020-04-27
Abstract: An adaptable ligature assembly 101 comprises: a frame 102, comprising first and second elongate frame members 104, 105, said frame members being fixed at their respective first and second remote ends to a preferably rectangular frame backplate 106; an adjustment assembly 103, comprising fixing members 107, 108 (for fixing the frame to the engagement means) and a first engagement member 109 (for engaging with a first side of the mouthpiece), said fixing members and first engagement member being releasably attached to one-another by way of the frame backplate; and a second engagement member 114 (for engaging with the reed and pressing it against a second side of the mouthpiece). The assembly provides a ligature, which can be adjusted at multiple points, to improve the ability to adjust the tensions at multiple points between a ligature, a reed and a mouthpiece of a wind instrument. Most particularly, providing an adjustable ligature that obviates the need for a musician to have multiple ligatures.
Patent GB-2586907-A (GB)
Title: A carriage for transporting a child or infant
Inventor: LOUISE CATHERINE SANDERS
IPC: B62B9/14
Filed: 2019-09-05
Abstract: A carriage 10 for transporting a child comprises: a chassis 12, 14; a plurality of ground bearing wheels 18, 20; a detachable cradle 16 for supporting a child, said cradle having a horizontal axis located on a plane substantially bisecting the cradle; two diametrically disposed connector assemblies for connecting the cradle to the chassis, each assembly comprising connector (38, figure 5) disposed in or on the cradle along the horizontal axis and a co-locating connector (40) disposed in or on the chassis; and a cradle inclining means for rotating the cradle about the horizontal axis, the inclining means comprising an electric motor connectable to an input disposed in or on the chassis, wherein the inclining means rotates the cradle between a substantially horizontal reclined configuration and an inclined configuration in which the cradle is angled by less than 90 degrees from the horizontal. The cradle may comprise a removable insert for supporting a baby in a seated or prone position, and lights may be provided for illuminating in front of and behind an operator. The cradle may also be provided with an air ventilation unit and a speaker system. A canopy may filter UV light, and may be tinted or clear.
Patent GB-2595252-A (GB)
Title: Monolithic RGB micro LED display
Inventor: JAMES PILKINGTON
IPC: H01L33/50
Filed: 2020-05-19
Abstract: A light emitting diode array comprises a plurality of light emitting pixels, a pixel comprising a light emitting diode (LED) 104 that emits light of a first primary peak wavelength. A layer 110 of organic semiconductors dispersed in a medium such as a resin, epoxy or polymer, acts as a colour or wavelength conversion layer that converts light of the first primary peak wavelength emitted by the LED 104 to provide output light of a second primary peak wavelength. Further pixels may comprise organic semiconductor layers 406 that provide output light of a third primary peak wavelength. The colour conversion layers may therefore down convert blue light emitted from LEDs 104 to green or red light. A method of forming the light emitting diode array is also disclosed. The colour conversion layers may be deposited by slit or spin coating, and do not require lithographic or inkjet patterning processes that degrade conventional colour converting materials such as quantum dots while enabling small pixel pitches for micro LED arrays.
Patent GB-2598951-A (GB)
Title: Modular panel system for constructing adaptable office structures
Inventor: RISHI CHOWDHURY
IPC: G06F30/13
Filed: 2020-09-21
Abstract: A modular panel system for constructing adaptable office structures comprises: a plurality of modular panels, each modular panel is created by joining a first prefabricated box and a second prefabricated box using one or more side panels, wherein the first prefabricated box comprises one or more sensors to monitor at least a use of space; the second prefabricated box comprises an area for housing one or more weights for providing structural stability to the plurality of modular panels; and a server that comprises a processor that is configured to recommend one or more designs with structural stability and optimized utilization of the space based on information associated with the previous designs or redesigns for at least one project specific information to construct the adaptable office structures with structural stability within the space using the plurality of modular panels.
Patent GB-2589796-A (GB)
Title: Long-offset acquisition
Inventor: STIG RUNE LENNART TENGHAMN
IPC: G01V3/11
Filed: 2019-06-19
Abstract: A long-offset acquisition system includes a source vessel; a signal source coupled to the source vessel; and a long-offset streamer coupled to a survey vessel and including an aft-most receiver, an offset of the aft-most receiver being at least 12 km. A long-offset acquisition method includes towing a signal source with a source vessel; towing a first long-offset streamer with a survey vessel; and acquiring data with receivers of the first long-offset streamer. A long-offset acquisition method includes towing a signal source with a first survey vessel; towing a long-offset streamer with a second survey vessel, the long-offset streamer having a plurality of receivers; actuating the signal source while an offset between the signal source and at least one of the plurality of receivers is at least 15 km; and acquiring data with receivers of the long-offset streamer.
Patent GB-2604327-A (GB)
Title: Video screen mounting
Inventor: GARY PURTON
IPC: F16M11/04
Filed: 2021-01-29
Abstract: Mounting apparatus for a flat video screen (e.g. of a video wall) has a front frame 2 to carry the screen and a rear frame 3 connected by scissors 6, biased open by spring 18, and damped by air damper 21. The damper 21 is connected to the frames 2,3 or scissor struts 7,8. Latches (15,16, figs 10a,10b) engage when the frames 2,3 are pushed together to a closed configuration. Thus screens move smoothly for maintenance or replacement.
Patent GB-2593047-A (GB)
Title: Methods and Apparatus to Determine Material Parameters of Turbine Rotors
Inventor: WALESH KUMAR
IPC: G01M15/14
Filed: 2021-02-11
Abstract: Apparatus, computer readable medium and method for determining material parameters (e.g. Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, coefficient of thermal expansion, diffusivity, conductivity, specific heat capacity or density) of a turbine rotor 222, 226, 230 comprising a rotor geometry determiner, a node radius calculator to calculate radial node locations, a temperature recorder (thermocouple 242, 244, 246) for recording the temperature of the nodes, a thermal stress calculator to calculate first thermal stress values at the nodes, a material parameter determiner to determine the material parameters at the nodes, a second thermal stress calculator to determine second thermal stress values based on the temperature values and/or the material parameter values, a thermal stress comparator to compare both thermal stress values, and a material parameter adjustor 240 to adjust the first material parameters if the difference between both thermal stress values does not satisfy a threshold. A time interval may be one of a start up or shut down of the turbine rotor. The operation of the turbine may be adjusted based on the determined material parameters.
Patent GB-2591399-A (GB)
Title: Separation of blended marine seismic survey data acquired with simultaneous multi-source actuation
Inventor: MAIZA BEKARA
IPC: G01V1/36
Filed: 2019-08-29
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to deblending of sources in multi-source geophysical survey data, including marine or land-based data. Recorded data may be aligned to a primary source. A deblending procedure may be iteratively applied to produce a residual term and deblended estimates for the primary source and one or more secondary sources. Following an iteration of the deblending procedure, the resultant data may be sorted according to a domain that renders the one or more secondary sources incoherent with respect to the primary source. The domain used for sorting may be different from a domain used to sort during an immediately prior iteration. In embodiments, the deblending procedure may use coherency filtering, and the coherency filtering may be weighted according to a signal-to-noise metric generated from the data being deblended.
Patent GB-2610643-A (GB)
Title: Signal processing methods for an optical detection system
Inventor: STUART RUSSELL
IPC: G01H9/00
Filed: 2021-09-14
Abstract: The present invention relates to signal processing methods for an optical detection system, and systems for carrying out such processing. For example, the present invention provides a signal processing method for a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system which utilises spread spectrum pulses to be transmitted 102 along an optical path, where a scattered signal that was scattered at a scattering location along an optical path is received 104 and interfered with a local oscillator signal 106 to generate a first carrier signal that is modulated by a phase difference between the local oscillator signal and the scattered signal 108. The first carrier signal is then processed in order to generate a second carrier signal 110 that is modulated by a spatial differential of the phase difference. Pulse-compression is then performed on the second carrier signal 112. The spatial differential of the phase difference is then determined 114, which is directly related to the strain (or acoustic environment) of the optical path at the scattering location, and so enables the strain at the scattering location to be estimated.
Patent GB-2613812-A (GB)
Title: Lid and food preparation arrangements
Inventor: DAVID FARAM
IPC: A47J43/07
Filed: 2021-12-15
Abstract: A lid 100 for a container, comprising a cap portion 110 for covering the container, a skirt portion 120, a feed tube 130 which extends through the cap portion, and a formation 150 extending between the feed tube and the skirt portion. The formation prevents a food trap (fig 1a) being formed in a gap between the feed tube and the skirt portion. Preferably, the formation comprises a main portion 152 extending between the feed tube and the skirt portion, and a side portion 151 extending between the main portion and the cap portion, where the side and main portions are perpendicular. Also claimed is a food preparation arrangement comprising a container 200 and an attachment 100 therefore, including two engagement arrangements 122, 210 for removably attaching the attachment to the container, wherein one of the engaging means can be engaged when the first is disengaged. Preferably the attachment is the lid. Preferably each engagement is of the bayonet-type.
Patent GB-2613658-A (GB)
Title: Pneumatic coupling system
Inventor: Anuj Bihani
IPC: B25J19/00
Filed: 2022-02-01
Abstract: A pneumatic coupling system 100 for coupling a mechanical arrangement to one or more end effectors comprises a central body 102 providing a top face 104, a first fastening interface 106 provided in the top face 104 of the central body 102 to allow for releasably coupling a docking plate 108 of the mechanical arrangement thereat, one or more arms, a second fastening interface provided in the said one of the one or more arms 110A, 110B to allow for releasably coupling a docking plate 108 of one of the one or more end effectors thereat, a dispensing port (116 fig. 2) associated with the at least one of the one or more arms 110A, 110B, a fluid manifold 118 having a fluid inlet port 120 configured to receive a pneumatic fluid and a fluid circuit 122 for each of the one or more arms 110A, 110B, disposed in fluid communication with the fluid manifold 118 to receive the pneumatic fluid therefrom and comprising a first fluid outlet line 124 for supplying the pneumatic fluid to the one or more end effectors and a second fluid outlet line 126 for supplying the pneumatic fluid to the dispensing port (116 fig. 2). The mechanical arrangement may be for example a robotic arm, a crane or a gantry and the end effector(s) may be for example a gripper, a coat sprayer, a glue dispenser, a sealant dispenser, a force-torque sensor, a material removal tool, a welding torch, a collision sensor or a tool changer.
Patent GB-2611589-A (GB)
Title: Techniques for finding and accessing vehicles
Inventor: Felice Ling
IPC: G01C21/34
Filed: 2022-02-14
Abstract: The disclosed embodiments generally provide visual and/or audio cues to a user to guide the user to a vehicle pickup-drop-off (PuDo) location, such as an autonomous vehicle (AV) PuDo. The user’s current location is determined based on information from the user’s mobile device. A path is determined from the user’s current location to the designated PuDo location, and instructions (e.g., turn-by-turn directions) to reach the designated PuDo are displayed on the user’s mobile device, for example, using an augmented reality (AR) interface on their mobile device that is updated in real-time. Disclosed embodiments also allow vehicles to authenticate the identity of a user before allowing entry of the user into the vehicle based on a sequence of hand gestures performed by the user that are detected by exterior sensors (e.g., camera, LiDAR) of the vehicle and opening the door closest to the user location.
Patent GB-2613416-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for virtually determining fuel sulfur concentration
Inventor: Jinqian Gong
IPC: F01N11/00
Filed: 2019-11-22
Abstract: A control module for an aftertreatment system that includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst and an oxidation catalyst, comprises a controller configured to be operatively coupled to the aftertreatment system. The controller is configured to determine an actual SCR catalytic conversion efficiency of the SCR catalyst. The controller determines an estimated SCR catalytic conversion efficiency based on a test sulfur concentration selected by the controller. In response to the estimated SCR catalytic conversion efficiency being within a predefined range, the controller sets the test sulfur concentration as a determined sulfur concentration in a fuel provided to the engine. The controller generates a sulfur concentration signal indicating the determined sulfur.
Patent GB-2607456-A (GB)
Title: Intersection testing in a ray tracing system
Inventor: SIMON FENNEY
IPC: G06T15/50
Filed: 2021-03-23
Abstract: Transforming a ray and an object (i.e. box, cuboid, convex polygon) in a ray tracing system, from a space co-ordinate system to a ray co-ordinate system, wherein the ray has an origin at the origin, for performing intersection testing, comprising: Obtaining a ray direction vector comprising at least components Dx, Dy, and Dz, the ray direction vector representing the direction of the ray in the space co-ordinate system; Before performing intersection testing of the ray with the object: Selectively reversing the components of the ray and points defining the object to ensure that all components of the ray direction vector are non-negative in the space co-ordinate system; Selectively permuting the components of the ray and the vertices defining the convex polygon to ensure that Dz is the component of the ray direction vector with the greatest magnitude, wherein after the selective permutation and selective reversing Dz ≥ Dx ≥ 0 and Dz ≥ Dy ≥ 0; Translating the points defining the object by subtracting the origin of the ray from the positions defining the object.
Patent GB-2608316-A (GB)
Title: Tubing assembly for use in wellbore and method of running tubing in a wellbore
Inventor: STEPHEN JAMES BEALE
IPC: E21B49/00
Filed: 2021-02-09
Abstract: A tubing assembly for use in a wellbore is provided. The tubing assembly comprises: tubing configured to be run in a wellbore to recover downhole fluid from a formation; and at least one gauge positioned at least partially inside the tubing. The gauge is configured to detect a parameter inside the tubing.
Patent GB-2608909-A (GB)
Title: Hydraulic cylinder
Inventor: HIROSHI FUNATO
IPC: F15B15/16
Filed: 2021-02-03
Abstract: A hydraulic cylinder (100) provided with: a cylinder tube (10); an outer-side rod (31) inserted in the cylinder tube (10); a first inner-side rod part (41) and a second inner-side rod part (51); and an outer-side piston part (32) that is provided at an end portion of the outer-side rod (31) and that divides the inside of the cylinder tube (10) into a rod-side chamber (2) and a non-rod-side chamber (5), wherein the second inner-side rod part (51) has a hollow section (51a) for feeding/discharging hydraulic fluid to/from the rod-side chamber (2), and the hollow section (51a) and the rod-side chamber (2) are connected with each other via a feed/discharge port (30A) and a discharge port (30B).
Patent GB-2610780-A (GB)
Title: Internally adjustable flow control module
Inventor: RYAN WESLEY MCCHESNEY
IPC: E21B43/12
Filed: 2020-07-20
Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of an adjustable flow control device. In one embodiment, the flow control device comprises a base pipe having one or more openings extending from an exterior to an interior of the base pipe; and a movable sleeve positioned along the interior of the base pipe, the movable sleeve having one or more associated openings extending from an exterior to an interior of the movable sleeve, and configured to rotate to a first position that aligns a first of the base pipe openings with a first of the movable sleeve openings.
Patent GB-2612537-A (GB)
Title: Contact lenses with microchannels
Inventor: SOURAV SAHA
IPC: G02C7/04
Filed: 2020-06-05
Abstract: A contact lens 200 comprises a reservoir 20 fluidly connected to a microchannel having an opening 15 within 2mm of the circumferential edge of the lens. The microchannel 35 is also connected to a second fluid opening located more than 2mm from the circumferential edge.