baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2566175-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and methods for hygiene monitoring in restaurants and grocery superstores
Inventor: ARIAN SHOARI
IPC: G08B21/24
Filed: 2017-04-13
Abstract: This disclosure describes methods and apparatus for hygiene monitoring in chain restaurants and grocery superstores. Four sub-systems are introduced to take care of different aspects of hygiene in restaurants. One sub-system uses contactless and in-contact temperature sensors installed on appliances to constantly monitor the temperature of working appliances to be in pre-defined range and use an Internet of Things gateways to transmit the data to remote control unit. The system generate an alert or report if the temperature of the appliances falls beyond the predefined range for more than a specific period of time. Another sub-system use a combination of temperature, humidity, UV and gas detectors to monitor the environment to be unsuitable for growth of fungus and bacteria and alert in case of exposure to harmful material and sun radiation. This sub-system also use an Internet of Things gateways to transmit the data to remote control unit. The third sub-system use a combination of radio frequency tags attached to the staff, RF tag readers and infrared/proximity/motion/ microphone/touch sensors installed over the faucet and dispenser to monitor if the staff wash their hands properly after going to the restroom. The forth sub-system automatically generate food expiring label for opened cans and food container based on RF tag worn by the staff. The system generate and print the label whenever the staff gesture their RF tags in front of them and potentially scan the container bar code or select it from a drop-down menu on its touch screen. The last sub-system can also monitor the inventory of opened cans of food in the refrigerator and provide a report or alert when they the time gets close to expiration date.
Patent GB-2570972-A (GB)
Title: Cleaning device
Inventor: YANG LI
IPC: A47L11/40
Filed: 2018-02-13
Abstract: A cleaning device comprises a driving roller 10, a driven roller 20, a flexible cleaning belt 30 sleeved on the driving roller and the driven roller, a garbage collection box 50, a brush 60, a sewage collection tank 70 and a clean water tank 80. The garbage collection box 50 can be provided with a guide plate 51 near one end of the cleaning belt a water squeezing roller 90 can be provided. The sewage collection tank 70 and the clean water tank 80 are located downstream of the garbage collection box 50 along the moving direction of the cleaning belt 30. The cleaning device is provided with a sewage collection tank 70 and a clean water tank 80. Clean fluid in the clean water tank 80 flows onto the cleaning belt 30 to clean the cleaning belt 30, and the sewage water and excess water on the cleaning belt 30 are squeezed into the sewage collection tank 70 by the water squeezing roller 90. The sewage collection tank can also be downstream of the brush 60. The flexible cleaning belt 30 can be disposed between the c lean water tank 80 and the sewage collection tank 70.
Patent GB-2582763-A (GB)
Title: Method and device for the recovery of waste energy from refrigerant compression systems used in gas liquefaction processes
Inventor: HEINZ BAUER
IPC: F25J1/02
Filed: 2019-04-01
Abstract: A method of capturing waste heat produced in a gas liquification process, comprising liquefying a feed gas by heat exchange with a refrigerant, compressing the spent refrigerant in a compressor C1, C2, and capturing waste heat from the compression process (such as by heat exchanger E4) before liquefying the compressed refrigerant fluid. The refrigerant fluid is then pumped with pump P1 to a higher pressure, then superheated with the waste heat from the compression process (from heat exchanger E4). The superheated compressed refrigerant is used to power a mechanical process, such as a work expander X1, which may also generate electrical power.
Patent GB-2573071-A (GB)
Title: A portable single use automated external defibrillator device
Inventor: EROL TEBER
IPC: A61N1/04
Filed: 2018-06-20
Abstract: A small form-factor portable automatic external defibrillator (AED) has a controller, a charging circuit and a discharge circuit to discharge capacitors using a pair of electrode pads. It delivers a biphasic waveform (136, figure 9) of a positive step-change exponential decay phase (137) using the first capacitor (preferably 60 µF) followed by a negative step-change exponential decay phase (138) using the second capacitor (20-60 µF). Preferably the discharge circuit includes two switches operated in turn, both phases have a peak voltage of about I kV and the positive phase lasts for 6-9 ms. The defibrillator may be a board separable into two portions 108 at a bisection, each portion having an electrode pad 106 on its upper surface, with both pads covered by a single peel-off layer. A circuit completion wire 110 may join the two portions. The defibrillator may operate in conjunction with a control app on a mobile phone (figure 2) and may mount into a mobile phone case (figure 10).
Patent GB-2585886-A (GB)
Title: A signal generator
Inventor: RICHARD HARRISON
IPC: H04K3/00
Filed: 2019-07-19
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing an output signal 18 from a signal generator 100, comprising: determining a driving input 16 to the signal generator, the driving input for driving the signal generator to provide a predetermined output signal, wherein the output signal includes at least one frame, the at least one frame comprising an active period and a dummy period and wherein the active period and dummy period are determined by the driving input. Also disclosed is a method of producing an output signal from a signal generator, comprising: receiving a synchronisation signal 14; obtaining an input signal for controlling the signal generator to generate an output signal comprising at least one frame wherein the at least one frame comprises at least one active period and at least one dummy period; producing the output signal comprising a series of frames; and, synchronising the output signal with the synchronisation signal by varying a duration of the at least one of the dummy period or active period. The signal generator may be used as a signal jammer which is time synchronised and may be used in close proximity to other jammers.
Patent GB-2579893-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for debugging devices
Inventor: ARKADIUSZ PAWEL ZALUSKI
IPC: G06F11/36
Filed: 2019-10-10
Abstract: A method of performing web-based interaction with a debug interface of a node device comprises communicatively coupling a host device 30, e.g. a laptop or desktop computer, to a node device 10, e.g. an internet of things (IoT) device. The host runs a web-based interface 50, e.g. in a web browser 40, that, in response to receiving input, communicates command data, e.g. Debug Access Port (DAP) commands, to a debug interface of the node device. The debugger may run on a remote server 80, in the web browser on the host, or in a gateway device connecting the host to the node device. The web-based interface allows the host device to troubleshoot the node device without having to install the debugger on the host.
Patent GB-2582200-A (GB)
Title: Connection structure connecting knitting needle body and cable and circular knitting needle having the same
Inventor: Toshiharu Jitsuda
IPC: D04B3/02
Filed: 2020-01-02
Abstract: Connection structure includes proximal end 11 of needle body 1, metallic connector 3 fixed to proximal end 11, and an end of flexible cable 2 attached to the connector, the connector 3 includes shaft 31 and head 32 with diameter greater than the shaft 31, proximal end 11 of the needle body 1 has hole 12 into which shaft 31 of the connector 3 is fitted. Head 32 of connector 3 has cable recess 320 accommodating end of the cable 2. The cable recess 320 includes first recess 321 adjacent to an opening 36 of cable recess 320 and second recess 322 adjacent to and with diameter greater than the first recess 321. The end 22 of cable 2 includes first portion 221 accommodated in first recess 321 and second portion 222 connected to the first portion 221 and accommodated in second recess 322. The second portion 222 has diameter greater than the first portion 221. There may be an auxiliary member 4 made of resin disposed between the needle body 1 and connector 3, comprising tubular shaft inserted into the hole 12 of the needle body and a tubular flange with greater diameter than the tubular shaft.
Patent GB-2591090-A (GB)
Title: Thermoelectric device
Inventor: DANIEL PAUL GRIFFITHS
IPC: H02N11/00
Filed: 2020-01-09
Abstract: An apparatus for generating an electrical current from a temperature differential in an ablutionary fitting, the apparatus comprising a heat transfer plate 43 having a projection 63 configured to directly contact water carried in a first region 11b of the fitting; and a thermoelectric module 45 comprising one or more thermoelectric elements 97a-c, the thermoelectric elements 97a-c configured to be thermally coupled between the heat transfer plate 43 and a housing (Fig. 3: 3) of the ablutionary fitting in a second region of the ablutionary fitting 11a, the thermoelectric elements 97a-c also being configured to generate electricity from a temperature differential between water carried in the first 11b and second 11a regions of the ablutionary fitting. Current generated by the thermoelectric module may be used to power LEDs (Fig. 6: 127) mounted on a PCB (Fig. 6: 125). A portion of the generated electricity may be stored in a capacitor or battery.
Patent GB-2582070-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods using multi-wavelength single-pulse Raman spectroscopy
Inventor: BRADLEY ARNOLD
IPC: G02B6/32
Filed: 2018-08-03
Abstract: The invention provides methods and apparatus comprising a multi-wavelength laser source that uses a single unfocused pulse of a low intensity but high power laser over a large sample area to collect Raman scattered collimated light, which is then Rayleigh filtered and focused using a singlet lens into a stacked fiber bundle connected to a customized spectrograph, which separates the individual spectra from the scattered wavelengths using a hybrid diffraction grating for collection onto spectra-specific sections of an array photodetector to measure spectral intensity and thereby identify one or more compounds in the sample.
Patent GB-2593755-A (GB)
Title: Shade adapter for LED downlights and tool thereof
Inventor: SIMON MOORHOUSE
IPC: F21V1/12
Filed: 2020-04-01
Abstract: A shade adapter for a fitting for a downlight 1 comprises a first adapter section 10 and a second adapter section 4. The first adapter section 10 comprises a cylindrical shell (14, Fig. 5) having an inner surface, an outer surface, a proximal end, a distal end, and an engagement means (16, Fig. 5) for engaging with a shade (15, Fig. 5) for a downlight 1 disposed on its outer surface, and a first planar arcuate base section having an inner edge and an outer edge, fixed proximate its outer edge to a section of the edge of the proximal end of the cylindrical shell 14. The second adapter section 4 comprises a second planar arcuate base section with an inner edge and an outer edge which, when assembled in use with the first planar arcuate base section, forms a planar annular base at the proximal end of the cylindrical shell 14 having an internal radius of a first size. A tool 7 is used to assemble the first and second adapter sections 4, 10.
Patent GB-2594976-A (GB)
Title: Test device
Inventor: TOBY COWE
IPC: B01L3/00
Filed: 2020-05-14
Abstract: A test device, e.g. a lateral flow device, has a housing for a test component, an inlet 12 for body fluid and a reservoir 14. A capillary tube 12 may form an integral inlet. In use, blood may travel along the capillary tube 12 and into well 14. Well 14 may have projections 16 underneath, increasing the volume of the well and applying pressure to the test component. Capillary tube 12 may be an open channel and L-shaped. Projections (24, figure 3) may raise one end of the housing. A buffer solution may be added to the well to help push the body fluid through the test component. The reservoir 14 may comprise a recess in the upper wall of the housing. Projections from an upper wall of the housing 18 & 20 may contact the test component to direct fluid from the reservoir 14 along the test component.
Patent GB-2582514-A (GB)
Title: Fingerprint data pre-process method for improving localization model
Inventor: MASAYUKI MURATA
IPC: G01S5/02
Filed: 2018-11-16
Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method including acquiring a first pieces of observation data that include a position of a mobile object and a received signal strength of a wireless signal observed by the mobile object; and correcting each position of the mobile object included in each piece of observation data of the first pieces of observation data using one position of the mobile object at a time before the received signal strength included in the piece of observation data is observed.
Patent GB-2583641-A (GB)
Title: Methods for predicting properties of clean formation fluid using real time downhole fluid analysis of contaminated samples
Inventor: BIN DAI
IPC: E21B49/08
Filed: 2018-06-27
Abstract: A method, including disposing a probe of a sensor system in a wellbore to interact with a formation fluid that includes a mud filtrate and a clean fluid that includes one of a formation water, or a formation hydrocarbon fluid including at least one hydrocarbon component. The method includes collecting multiple measurements of a formation fluid from a wellbore, the formation fluid comprising a mud filtrate and a clean fluid, is provided. The clean fluid includes at least one hydrocarbon component, and the method also include identifying a concentration of the mud filtrate and a concentration of the clean fluid in the formation fluid for one of the measurements, and determining at least one hydrocarbon composition and at least one physical property of the clean fluid based on a measurement fingerprint of the hydrocarbon components. A sensor system configured to perform a method as above is also provided.
Patent GB-2588841-A (GB)
Title: An extendable garment
Inventor: BELINDA BODEN
IPC: A41D13/11
Filed: 2020-07-20
Abstract: A garment with at least one extension portion 5 having at least one attachment means 7-8; the extension portion having enough extra material to allow at least one shorter 9 and at least one longer 10 configuration, the attachment means holding the garment in the desired configuration; the attachment means comprising a plurality of securement parts spaced longitudinally relative to the garment portion on a reinforcing strip (figure 1, no numeral). The garment might be tights, leggings, trousers, a jumper, t-shirt or romper, especially for an infant. Preferably the extension portions and at least one attachment means is locate proximal to a joint such as an elbow or knee, such that in one of the shortened configurations the excess material of the extension portion forms knee pads etc. The securement parts may be along the sides of the garment portion, such as along the lateral plane of the legs, such that a wearer kneeling does not feel pressure from the securement parts. The securement parts on for example inner and outer parts of a leg may be offset and spaced differently to gather the garment in a certain manner (figure 4). The arrangement allows for example a garment which can grow along with a child, extending the useful life of the garment.
Patent GB-2589440-A (GB)
Title: Measurement method and apparatus
Inventor: SYDNEY JOSEPH LITTLEFORD
IPC: E21B47/047
Filed: 2020-09-10
Abstract: A method of determining a variable or characteristic of a space such as a well 4 comprising sending a first signal to a feature in a well and receiving a reflected second signal, transmitting a third signal to a calibration feature in the well and receiving a reflected fourth signal. A further first, second, third and fourth signals are then transmitted and received. A characteristic of the well is determined based on the difference in the time between the sent and received signals for both the initial and the further signals. The signals may be microwaves or another electromagnetic signal and may utilise frequency domain reflectometry (FDR) or frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW). The calibration feature may be a special joint in a tubular within the well and the feature may be a fluid interface within the well. The first and third signals may be the same signal and the further first and further third signals may be the same signal.
Patent GB-2601311-A (GB)
Title: Methods of in vitro culturing sphagnum
Inventor: NEAL WRIGHT
IPC: A01G22/30
Filed: 2020-11-24
Abstract: A method of in vitro culturing comprises providing a vegetative fragment of Sphagnum and surface cleaning the fragment with alcohol. The method further comprises dissecting the fragment to provide a piece 106 of Sphagnum. The method further comprises initiating the piece of Sphagnum in a culture medium 104. The fragment may have a length less than 10mm, the fragment maybe from a capitulum of Sphagnum. The alcohol may comprise propanol which may be between 50-80% alcohol by volume. The culture medium maybe a solid culture medium and the culturing maybe performed to form a gametophore. After culturing, the Sphagnum maybe transferred to a second, liquid culture medium and carbon dioxide maybe supplied. The invention also relates to Sphagnum obtainable by the method.
Patent GB-2601764-A (GB)
Title: Energy extraction system and method of use
Inventor: NEIL COULSON
IPC: F03D3/06
Filed: 2020-12-09
Abstract: A vertical axis fluid flow turbine 10 comprises upper and upper rotary disc aerofoils 14, 16 and a plurality of blades 24 connected between the upper and lower discs 14, 16. A port 30 in the upper aerofoil 14 allows equalisation of pressure between the fluid volume 29 between the upper and lower aerofoil discs, and the fluid above the disc. The aerofoils 14, 16 may have a raised dome or cone shape. The turbine may be used with a horizontal (transverse) axis.
Patent GB-2591193-A (GB)
Title: Genetic variant panels and methods of generation and use thereof
Inventor: RICHARD STONER
IPC: C12Q1/02
Filed: 2020-09-23
Abstract: Described herein are methods for generating and using variant panels of clonally expanded cells containing a plurality of introduced genetic variants. These clonally expanded cells can be partitioned such that each individual partition contains a single genetic variant, allowing for the assessment of the outcome of each variant without the confounding effect of background genetic variation. Further, panels of such variants can be used to evaluate nucleic acid repair strategies. Genetic variation can be introduced through the use of genome editing tools, such as CRISPR/Cas.
Patent GB-2594577-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of a dental tool
Inventor: WAN TSIN GOH
IPC: B23P15/34
Filed: 2021-03-19
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a dental or medical tool 14 includes the steps of: positioning a pre-fluted blank 14 including a stem 24 and a shank 22 within a machine (30, Figure 1); using a probe to identify an orientation of the blank to ascertain the position or orientation of at least one flute 26 of the blank; using the machine to form a cutting end region (34, Figure 3) at the end of the stem of the blank remote from the shank, the flute extending into the cutting end region. The machine is controlled to ensure that the cutting end region is correctly orientated relative to the flutes of the blank. The method may be used to manufacture a milling tool. A pre-fluted blank comprises a stem extending coaxially from a shank, the stem including, upon its outer surface, at least one helical flute and an orientation indicator 28 (e.g. a flat, a groove, or a recess) formed on the shank or the stem. The probe may be an optical probe or may be a physical probe that contacts the pre-fluted blank in use. The cutting end region may be of ball-nosed, bull-nosed, or flat ended form.
Patent GB-2595965-A (GB)
Title: Antioxidant contact lens
Inventor: INNA MALTSEVA
IPC: G02C7/04
Filed: 2021-04-26
Abstract: An unworn antioxidant contact lens is immersed in a packaging solution and sterilely sealed in a package. It has a silicone hydrogel and an amount of vitamin E embedded within the silicone hydrogel effective to provide at least a 50% reduction in lipid peroxidation relative to a control contact lens lacking the vitamin E when measured in a TBARS assay. It is (i) free of a bioactive agent having a release profile attenuated by the vitamin E; or (ii) has (a) an ophthalmically-acceptable surface wettability in the absence of a post curing surface treatment and (b) an advancing contact angle that is no more than 10° greater than the control lens. The sealed contact lens package includes at least a) a plastic base member having a cavity; b) a contact lens packaging solution in the cavity; c) a sterile, unworn contact lens immersed in the contact lens packaging solution in the cavity; and d) a cover that forms a liquid-tight seal with the plastic base member.
Patent GB-2594614-A (GB)
Title: Minimize trapped fluid impact on expandable liner hangers in geothermal applications
Inventor: XIAOGUANG ALLAN ZHONG
IPC: E21B43/10
Filed: 2019-03-11
Abstract: A system and method for performing subterranean operations. The system may comprise an expandable liner hanger positioned within a casing string, wherein the expandable liner hanger comprises a spiked portion having one or more anchoring ridges, each of the one or more anchoring ridges extending in a circular ring along an outer perimeter of the expandable liner hanger, and one or more weep holes are positioned in a space between adjacent ones of the one or more anchoring ridges. The method for coupling a liner to a casing string of a cased wellbore in a subterranean formation may comprise coupling an expandable liner hanger to the liner, inserting the liner and the expandable liner hanger downhole through the casing string, and expanding the plurality of anchoring ridges.
Patent GB-2606590-A (GB)
Title: Center bracket for adjusting sprinkler body
Inventor: YOUNGSOON LIM
IPC: A62C35/68
Filed: 2021-07-20
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a centre bracket 410 for adjusting the degree of tightening of the centre bracket fixing a sprinkler body 200. A contact piece 420 is pivotably attached to the centre bracket by a hinge pin 430 fixed to a pinhole of the centre bracket. An adjustment screw 510 threaded through the bracket and pressing up against a tapered or inclined surface 512 of the contact piece is caused to finely adjust the sprinkler contact piece that is rotated with the hinge pin as the central axis of rotation. The centre bracket has cam protrusion contact portion that is rotated and fastened while a sprinkler is fitted into the centre bracket. The cam protrusion is formed at one end of a cam lever 446. The bracket is equipped with a cam lever unlocking lever 100.
Patent GB-2606781-A (GB)
Title: Powergrab
Inventor: DAVID JOHN JONES
IPC: E01C19/52
Filed: 2021-10-11
Abstract: A lifting implement/carrier for lifting an item, comprising an elongated handle 1 having a central grip 4 and two end grips 8; the carrier additionally comprises a pair of hinged legs 14 that engage and grip 17 the load to be carried. The carrier may be used for lifting, placing and bedding curb stones or pipes within a construction or engineering environment. The carrier and ancillary parts may be one piece and produced by laser or plasma cutting and comprise of steel, aluminium or composite material.