baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2532257-A (GB)
Title: Server cabinet coolers, server cabinets and system
Inventor: JAMES FRANK GARSON
IPC: H05K7/20
Filed: 2014-11-13
Abstract: A server cabinet cooler 1 comprises a housing and a refrigeration circuit with a compressor 19, a condenser 20, an expansion valve, and an evaporator 11. The refrigeration circuit is located within the housing which has a warm air intake for drawing warm air from a server cabinet 2 to the evaporator and a cooled air outlet for returning air into the server cabinet. The housing further comprises an external air intake for cooling the refrigerant in the condenser and a warm air outlet for returning warm air to the outside of the cooler. An additional valve, which may be a liquid solenoid valve, is located in the refrigerant circuit before the expansion valve, and a controller causes the additional valve to close the refrigeration circuit when the desired server cooling temperature is reached and to open the additional valve when cooling is required. A server cabinet comprising a server cabinet cooler has a sensor 18 located at or near the bottom of the cabinet, and the server cabinet cooler comprises a controller operating with the sensor to control the operation of the circuit.
Patent GB-2533146-A (GB)
Title: Improved footwear and method of assembly
Inventor: RICHARD SWIFT
IPC: A43D85/00
Filed: 2014-12-11
Abstract: Apparatus 100 for reverting an inside-out upper and sole assembly to a righted upper and sole assembly, the apparatus comprising a clamping arrangement 101 having a first member 102 with a first contact end 103 and a second member 104 with a second contact end 105, both members being arranged end to end along a longitudinal axis A-A and being mechanically operable to move along said longitudinal axis between a first position in which the first and second contact ends are nipped together and a second position in which the first and second ends are distanced from one another. When the ends are in the second position, there is preferably enough distance between them so that an assembly may be placed or removed on either end. The members preferably comprise elongate arms, and the contact ends comprise discs attached to the arms. The mechanical operation may comprise an opposite end (to the contact ends) of at least one of the members attached to a sliding mechanism to facilitate the longitudinal movement of the members between the first and second positions, with the sliding mechanism being a pneumatic cylinder driven ram.
Patent GB-2533635-A (GB)
Title: A coupling suitable for a framework
Inventor: NEILL MAYNARD
IPC: F16B7/04
Filed: 2014-12-24
Abstract: A coupling 10 for connection to a tube 20 with a rectangular cross-section comprises a rectangular base plate 12 and two side-plates 14 extending from opposite sides of the base plate, the side-plates extending rigidly in planes that are orthogonal to the plane of the base plate. The side-plates 14 have a portion 15 of the same width as the side of the base plate 12 at the location where they extend from it, and have a tapered portion 17 at a position further from that location. The side-plates 14 are interconnected at a location spaced away from the base plate 12 by a tube 16 extending parallel to the plane of the base plate 12 and aligning with corresponding holes 24 through the side-plates 14 so that the holes 24 and the tube 16 together define a through-passage. The dimensions are such that at least the two side-plates 14 can fit within the tube 20). The coupling 10 may be welded into one end of a tube 20 to form a stanchion 30; and multiple couplings 10 may be used in constructing a framework 40.
Patent GB-2534858-A (GB)
Title: Reusable packaging and storage article
Inventor: KEVIN PAN
IPC: B65D85/07
Filed: 2015-01-30
Abstract: A reusable packaging and storage article 1 for an elastic constriction ring, comprises a top member 2 and a bottom member 3 configured to releasably engage with each other, wherein the bottom member comprises: a cavity 4 of substantially circular shape having a perimeter lip 5 with an inner and outer 6 surface to house, in use, a portion of the elastic constriction ring; and an at least partially pillar 7 extending from a substantially central portion of the cavity; and wherein a summit 8 of the pillar has a diameter less than the diameter of a central aperture of the elastic constriction ring, and a lower portion of the pillar has a diameter greater than the diameter of a central aperture of the elastic constriction ring; and wherein the top member comprises: a cavity 9 of substantially circular shape having a perimeter lip 10 with an inner and outer surface to house, in use, a portion of the elastic constriction ring, wherein the diameter of an inner surface of the perimeter is the same or greater than the diameter of the outer surface of the perimeter lip of the bottom member. A consumer product is also described. The pillar may be frusto-conical and the article may include vent holes.
Patent GB-2519717-A (GB)
Title: Rapid method production high purity cancer stem cells and population of high purity cancer stem cells
Inventor: CORNFORTH ANDREW
IPC: C12N5/095
Filed: 2013-08-06
Abstract: The disclosure provides reagents, including cells, and related methods, useful for administering to subjects with a neoplastic disorder. The reagents and methods encompass cancer stem cells of enhanced purity. Neoplastic disorder encompasses melanoma, ovarian cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer.
Patent GB-2524658-A (GB)
Title: Rotary fluid transfer apparatus and associated methods
Inventor: FISHER HUGH EDWARD
IPC: F04C13/00
Filed: 2013-09-09
Abstract: A fluid transfer device (10, 110, 210, 310, 410, 510, 610, 710, 810, 910, 1010, 1110) and corresponding method of transferring fluid. The device (10, 110, 210, 310, 410, 510, 610, 710, 810, 910, 1010, 1110) comprises an inner member (46, 146, 246, 346, 446, 546, 646, 746, 846, 946, 1046, 1146) with a central axis (28, 128, 228, 328, 428, 528, 728, 728, 828, 928, 1028, 1128) and comprising an outer surface (48, 148, 248, 348, 448, 548, 748, 748, 848, 948, 1048, 1148); and an outer member (42, 142, 242, 342, 442, 542, 742, 742, 842, 942, 1042, 1142) coaxially arranged with the inner member (46, 146, 246, 346, 446, 546, 646, 746, 846, 946, 1046, 1146) and comprising an inner surface (44, 144, 244, 344, 444, 544, 744, 744, 844, 944, 1044, 1144) radially spaced from the outer surface of the inner member (46, 146, 246, 346, 446, 546, 646, 746, 846, 946, 1046, 1146) to define a space between the inner (46, 146, 246, 346, 446, 546, 646, 746, 846, 946, 1046, 1146) and outer members (42, 142, 242, 342, 442, 542, 742, 742, 842, 942, 1042, 1142). The device (10, 110, 210, 310, 410, 510, 610, 710, 810, 910, 1010, 1110) has a first axial member and a second axial member. There is at least one variable fluid chamber (20, 120, 220, 320, 420, 520, 720, 720, 820, 920, 020, 1120) defined in the space, with a fluid inlet (22, 122, 222, 322, 422, 522, 722, 722, 822, 922, 1022, 1122) to the at least one fluid chamber (20, 120, 220, 320, 420, 20, 720, 720, 820, 920, 1020, 1120); and a fluid outlet (24, 124, 224, 324, 424, 524, 20 724, 724, 824, 924, 1024, 1124) from the at least one fluid chamber. At least one of the first and/or second axial member/s is rotatable about the central axis (28, 128, 228, 328, 428, 528, 728, 728, 828, 928, 1028, 1128) to vary a volume of the at least one fluid chamber (20, 120, 220, 320, 420, 520, 720, 720, 820, 920, 1020, 1120). The volume of the at least one fluid chamber (20, 120, 220, 320, 420, 520, 720, 720, 820, 920, 1020, 1120) corresponds to a rotational position of the first and/or second axial member/s.
Patent GB-2520466-A (GB)
Title: Tool for leak point identification and new methods for identification, close visual inspection and repair of leaking pipelines
Inventor: AGBAKWURU JASPER AHAMEFULA
IPC: G01M3/08
Filed: 2013-09-23
Abstract: An apparatus for close visual inspection of subsea pipelines comprises a housing with a chamber that has an open side. The open side is adapted to be placed in sealing engagement against the pipeline. The chamber is flooded with clear water to improve the visual view. It is also described an apparatus for identification of a plume exiting from a leak The apparatus comprises a housing defining a chamber with a water permeable side that is adapted to face downward during use, and thereby being exposed to the exiting substance. A gas pressurizing device for creates a gas/water interface within the housing. An imaging device arranged above the water surface is adapted to image the water surface and detect id the water surface is being disturbed by the plume.
Patent GB-2537140-A (GB)
Title: Routing communications traffic
Inventor: Nestor Patrikios
IPC: H04W84/04
Filed: 2015-04-08
Abstract: A plurality of access point names, APNs, are located within a mobile network, wherein each APN in the plurality of APNs is associated with a different entity external to the mobile network. An APN is received from a wireless access point and presented to the mobile network. Communications traffic can then be routed from the wireless access point according to one or more routing parameters specific to the external entity associated with the presented APN. An embodiment describes a mobile device able to connect to an external LAN (e.g. a company, school or government organisation) over a mobile network and to allow the LAN to authenticate the mobile device. A communications gateway may apply policies to the routed traffic in accordance with the external entities policies.
Patent GB-2529589-A (GB)
Title: Non-planar semiconductor device having self-aligned fin with top blocking layer
Inventor: YEH JENG-YA D
IPC: H01L29/78
Filed: 2013-06-26
Abstract: Non-planar semiconductor devices having self-aligned fins with top blocking layers and methods of fabricating non-planar semiconductor devices having self-aligned fins with top blocking layers are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor fin disposed above a semiconductor substrate and having a top surface. An isolation layer is disposed on either side of the semiconductor fin, and recessed below the top surface of the semiconductor fin to provide a protruding portion of the semiconductor fin. The protruding portion has sidewalls and the top surface. A gate blocking layer has a first portion disposed on at least a portion of the top surface of the semiconductor fin, and has a second portion disposed on at least a portion of the sidewalls of the semiconductor fin. The first portion of the gate blocking layer is continuous with, but thicker than, the second portion of the gate blocking layer. A gate stack is disposed on the first and second portions of the gate blocking layer.
Patent GB-2540844-A (GB)
Title: Valve assembly
Inventor: DAVID W A WILD
IPC: F16K11/087
Filed: 2016-05-03
Abstract: A valve assembly includes a body 5 and a central bore 3 extending through the body 5. The central bore 3 further includes a ball 19 rotatable between open and closed positions with respect to the central bore 3. A first channel line 7 extends from the central bore 3 to a first component 9, typically a valve, and at least a second channel line 13 is provided to extend in the body 5 from the first channel line 7 or first valve 9 to a spaced connection port 11.
Patent GB-2548641-A (GB)
Title: A processor
Inventor: JAMES ROBINSON
IPC: G06F9/38
Filed: 2016-05-13
Abstract: A processor (100) which fetches an instruction in a sequence of instructions, each instruction having a computable address associated therewith, the processor comprising, when an exception occurs, saving a computed address of the next instruction (i.e. the program counter value of the next instruction) to be executed in a branch instruction. Preferably, the instruction immediately preceding the fetched instruction is a branch instruction. The stored address of the next instruction is preferably the branch target address in the case where the exception occurs in the delay slot of a taken branch. The kernel code can then read the register to determine the address which it should return to after an exception. This eliminates the need to emulate the branch instruction and also eliminates the need to keep the kernel up to date with the knowledge of how to emulate all branches in an Instruction Set Architecture.
Patent GB-2554044-A (GB)
Title: A bedding device
Inventor: DARREN GREEN
IPC: A47G9/10
Filed: 2016-05-24
Abstract: A bedding device comprises a temperature alteration mechanism in the form of a heating element operable using an electrical energy source and which mechanism is controllable remotely. The device may form part of a blanket, quilt or mattress and in use me be located above or below a supine user. The bedding device may have sensors to detect the temperature of the user or the surrounding environment. The heating element may comprise an electric resistance element or carbon fibre wires. A controller may be provided and may operate wirelessly and remotely. The bedding device may be separated into zones of temperature alteration. An advantage of the bedding device is that the use may check the temperature of, and warm, their bed when they are out and about.
Patent GB-2558177-A (GB)
Title: Mounting assembly
Inventor: Nick Ray
IPC: F16B5/06
Filed: 2016-07-01
Abstract: A mounting assembly comprises a backing panel 2 having a plurality of sets of horizontally spaced mounting points 24. At least one pair of adjustable brackets 4 have first and second members 6, 8, at least one of the members being adjustably mounted on the mounting points 24 . Distal ends of the first and second members 6, 8 are provided with end faces parallel to one another with adjustment means for adjusting the horizontal position of the first and second members 6, 8 with respect to one another. A mounting structure is adapted to be secured to the backing panel 2.
Patent GB-2542934-A (GB)
Title: Wear management for flash memory devices
Inventor: MICHAEL STEPHEN ROTHBERG
IPC: G11C29/50
Filed: 2016-09-05
Abstract: Apparatus, method and computer program to manage wear leveling in SSD FLASH storage whereby the memory devices are limited to a finite number of programme/erase cycles (e.g P/E<30,000). The method includes receiving a command for a data operation 210, determining a projected life value for each flash memory device, wherein the projected life value of at least one flash memory devices is higher than that for another flash memory device 220. The method further includes selecting one of a plurality of flash memory blocks for the data operation based on the respective projected life values for the flash memory devices 230. The projected life (lifetime or useful age) may be the number of program-erase cycles (P/E) expected to be performed before failure of the flash block. The more frequent selection of a block may be based on an associated higher value of remaining P/E cycles and P/E count per block. The selection rate for any flash memory block corresponds to the ratio of projected life values as compared to the plurality of flash blocks. The data operation may include garbage collection or a write operation. The determined projected life for each of the flash memory devices may be based on a test (e.g extended duration continuous (or pulsed) high voltage stress tests) conducted on an independent test flash memory block in each of the flash memory devices, which may be destroyed in the process. A controller may further implement the wear leveling/data operation. A computer program embodiment executed on a processor may order the flash devices in terms of their projected life value and create a linked list, such that the block selection is based on this order.
Patent GB-2554663-A (GB)
Title: Method of video generation
Inventor: VIACHESLAV CHESNOKOV
IPC: H04N19/85
Filed: 2016-09-30
Abstract: Method for generating an output video frame comprises receiving 105 and decoding 110 an encoded video to produce decoded video frame 200. First video frame data is retrieved 115 from first group of pixels 205 of the decoded frame and second video frame data is retrieved 120 from second group of pixels 210, different to the first group of pixels, of the decoded frame. An output video frame is generated 125 by combining information derived from said first video frame data and information derived from said second video frame data, wherein said combining comprises, for a given pixel of the output video frame, combining information describing said given pixel derived from said first video frame data and information describing said given pixel derived from said second video frame data. Also claimed is a corresponding encoding method. The first video frame may comprise a representation of pixel values of an input video frame. The second video frame may define processing, such as a gain or an attenuation, which is applied to the first video frame in the combining step and encoding and decoding apparatuses in which this is the case are claimed. The methods may be used in encoding HDR video.
Patent GB-2555109-A (GB)
Title: Guitar with an easily dismantled and reassembled body
Inventor: DAVID WEATHERILL
IPC: G10D1/08
Filed: 2016-10-18
Abstract: A guitar comprises a solid central core 5 comprising a neck 2 and two solid wings 4 that can be assembled to form the guitar; wherein each wing comprises at least one locating pin 7 and the central core 8 comprises locating holes corresponding to the number of locating pins, or the central core has the locating pins and the wings have the locating holes; the guitar further comprises at least one securing hole 9 passing through the central core and wings; and a removable rod 13, for each securing hole, comprising either a threaded end or latching end (figure 18, 23), within and passing through its securing hole, which can secure the central core and wings together to form a guitar, and each is so conformed as not to require a tool to do so. The securing rods may further have indentations or slots allowing for tools to be used as well as hand tightening. This dismantleable guitar allows for easier transportation.
Patent GB-2559119-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and methods to prolong lifetime of memories
Inventor: IRENÉUS JOHANNES DE JONG
IPC: G11C16/34
Filed: 2017-01-20
Abstract: Apparatus and method of wear-levelling in volatile and non-volatile memories (e.g FLASH, PCRAM, RRAM, DRAM, SRAM and Correlated Electron RAM, CeRAM). The method includes identifying within a storage system, a memory location storing static data (non changing) S40, identifying a free memory location in a write heavy region (i.e region undergone many previous writes) within a memory of the storage system S42; and writing the stored static data to the identified free memory location S44. The method may further include identifying static data which is also or instead stored in a cache of the storage system (S50 figure 5), and then evict (remove) the static data from the cache (S52), whilst also determining the location of the associated static data in memory (S54), based upon finding the physical address from a map of the logical address, and continuing by moving the evicted static data into identified free memory location in the memory (S58). Moving the evicted static data from the cache may only be based on the number of evictions exceeding a threshold eviction value, implemented by means of a cache eviction counter (S66 fig 6). Eviction may also be based on the number of reads encountered in the cache and on this exceeding a threshold value. Identifying the memory location may comprise recognizing when data to be written is identical to data already stored and receiving a logical address for the static data and determining though a mapping table the physical address. Another embodiment of the wear leveling relates to a storage system, at least one cache and a module to implement the above methods.
Patent GB-2559375-A (GB)
Title: Battery sensing device
Inventor: RAIMO VUOPIONPERA
IPC: H01M10/48
Filed: 2017-02-03
Abstract: A sensing device 720 for monitoring the status of a battery 700 comprises a sensor housing 702 configured to be mounted on an exterior of a battery proximate to a visual indicator 712 of a state of the battery such that a sensor 728 detects an output of the visual indicator. The sensing device further comprising a controller 726 configured to digitize the output of the visual indicator. The sensing device may be used to detect a fluid level, for example water and/or electrolyte level. The sensor housing may comprise light emitters 732a, 732b such as LEDs to display the digitized output, these light emitters may illuminate when the battery reaches a predetermined state which may be when the battery requires servicing. An array of light emitters may be provided which may represent a range of states of the battery such as an okay state, an attention required state and a not okay state. The sensor may comprise an optical sensor which may have an infra-red light source. The sensor may comprise a proximity sensor or ultrasound sensor. The sensing device may be connected to an external device 736 which may transmit the digitized output to a cloud server 740.
Patent GB-2560748-A (GB)
Title: Plumbing fitting
Inventor: Derek Ernest Howe
IPC: F16L19/065
Filed: 2017-03-24
Abstract: A plumbing fitting comprising a pipe socket 14 and an insert 16 supported within the socket 14 to form a spigot therein, around which the bore of a pipe can be arranged. The insert comprises a leading end 16a configured for insertion into the socket 14, and a trailing end 16b, and defines a flow path between the leading and trailing ends for allowing fluid to flow along a longitudinal axis of the insert. The insert 16 is deformable, such that the insert is secured within the socket. In an embodiment, the insert 16 has a skirt or flange made up of sections (30, figure 3) which are elastically deformed when inserted into the socket 14, thereby gripping the same. The insert 16 is also claimed independently.
Patent GB-2560057-A (GB)
Title: Turbine deployment system
Inventor: JASON HAYMAN
IPC: F03B3/08
Filed: 2017-05-10
Abstract: A system for raising turbines relative to a turbine support 106 comprises a turbine mount 110, a turbine 108 mounted on the turbine mount, means for providing an upward force to raise the turbine, which may be by means of a winch (122 figure 1c); and a guidance means (which may be a pivot). The guidance means is engaged with the turbine mount, and the turbine is moveable in a path defining an arc about a pitch or roll axis in response to the upward force by virtue of the engagement between the guidance means and the support. The turbine mount may comprise inner and outer telescoping supports (116a, 116b figure 1c) which slide and rotate relative to each other by virtue of the guidance means as the mount 110 is raised by the winch. Later embodiment relates to a method for raising turbines relative to a turbine mount.
Patent GB-2561411-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for generating a microfoam
Inventor: MICHELLE GOTHARD
IPC: B05B7/00
Filed: 2017-06-16
Abstract: An apparatus 103 or method for generating a microfoam, the apparatus comprising a channel having an inlet 107 and an outlet, a source of foamable liquid and pressurised gas arranged to feed into the inlet. The channel is comprised of an spatially oscillating flow channel 106 to provide an oscillating flow direction, the spatially oscillating flow channel oscillating about a bulk flow direction, the spatially oscillating flow channel providing a sequence of planar cross-sections perpendicular to the flow direction, with a sub-sequence of planar cross sections that are perpendicular to the bulk flow direction in the plane in question, the sub sequence comprising at least one plane that does not overlap with at least one other plane in the sub sequence.