baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2562083-A (GB)
Title: Fungicidal composition and use thereof
Inventor: JAMES TIMOTHY BRISTOW
IPC: A01P3/00
Filed: 2017-05-04
Abstract: A fungicidal composition comprising boscalid, dimethomorph and picoxystrobin. Each component may be added simultaneously or successively, and may be employed a plurality of times. Also provided is a method and use of the fungicidal composition in the control of fungicidal infestation of plants or plant parts. The fungicide components may be applied to the plants during both the pre-emergence state and the post-emergence stage, and the total amount of the fungicide components may be applied in a range of 20-5000 g/ha. The target plants may be selected from cereals, fruits, legumes, oil plants, lemons and vegetables.
Patent GB-2562269-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for moving at least one valve for a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine
Inventor: THOMAS JOHNSON
IPC: F02D13/02
Filed: 2017-05-10
Abstract: An apparatus 7 for moving a valve(s) 27a for a combustion chamber 5 of an internal combustion engine 3 comprises a first piston 23a within a first chamber 25a, configured to actuate a first valve 27a for the combustion chamber. The first piston is arranged to be actuated by a hydraulic control system 21 to move within the first chamber 25a, for moving the first valve and a second piston 23b within a second chamber 25b is configured to not actuate any valve for any combustion chamber. The hydraulic control system is arranged to, in a first mode, control actuation of the first piston but not the second piston and, in a second mode, control parallel actuation of the pistons. Preferably in the second mode the pistons are actuated simultaneously. The apparatus may comprise a blocking means (33b, 33d, figure 3), operable in the first mode. The second piston may comprise a resilient means (29a-c) to resist actuation as may any further pistons. The second or further pistons may comprise a limiter. An internal combustion engine, a valve train, a vehicle, a system and a method are also claimed.
Patent GB-2565542-A (GB)
Title: Systems and methods for selecting datasets
Inventor: NICHOLAS HALSTEAD
IPC: G06F16/20
Filed: 2017-08-11
Abstract: Datasets can be joined by determining an intersection weight between a source database and possible further data sets. This enables a ranking to be presented to the user via a GUI. A bloom filter may be generated from the keys in the dataset. An API may be used, and autonomous agent may be used to supply queries with an identifier of the source dataset, such as age or gender, where privacy may mean that data cannot be directly accessed, and financial and medical correlations made.
Patent GB-2566260-A (GB)
Title: Occupant restraint adjustment and fastening apparatus
Inventor: ALISON SKIDMORE
IPC: B62B9/24
Filed: 2017-09-01
Abstract: A restraint adjustment mechanism 100 has a buckle (Fig 2, 122) with a rotatable dial (Fig 14, 302) which is connected by a gear to a pair of strap adjusters (Fig 2,118, 120). Rotation of the dial (302) adjusts the straps (Fig 2, 102, 104). The adjusters (118, 120) are removably mounted to the buckle (122).
Patent GB-2551301-A (GB)
Title: Brake caliper
Inventor: RIC HAMPSON
IPC: F16D65/18
Filed: 2015-07-30
Abstract: A brake-by-wire system has a brake caliper body (14, fig 2) with pairs of coaxial piston bores (52, fig 6) on each side of a disc opening with opposed brake pads (22, fig 1), the caliper maintaining a clearance between the brake pads and the brake disc in use. Each piston has a seal groove 54 with an axial taper and a large leading edge radius 55 so that as hydraulic pressure is released the piston always retracts by a distance greater than the deflection of the calliper body for full retraction. The brake-by-wire system allows a fast hydraulic prefill. The body can be asymmetric (e.g. with different bore diameters); have a bridge (28, fig 8) spanning the opening; be monobloc; and a design method is described (fig 9) which minimises mass & maximises strength rather than stiffness allowing higher deflections with features coinciding with an ellipse.
Patent GB-2566333-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to stairlifts
Inventor: GAVIN PUGH
IPC: B66B9/08
Filed: 2017-09-12
Abstract: A method of adjusting the angular position of a stairlift chair pivotally mounted on a stairlift carriage 15 using a chair levelling motor 26, the carriage configured to travel along a rail 11. The adjustment of the stairlift chair is achieved using a primary signal 108 from a gyroscope 27 mounted on the carriage for levelling the chair, using a secondary signal 110 received from an accelerometer 30 mounted on the chair to adjust the primary signal, with the new adjusted signal being used to control the chair leveling motor. The modified primary/secondary signal is further adjusted by a tertiary signal 112 taken from an accelerometer 114 mounted on the carriage and is used to stabilise chair movement as the carriage moves through a path wherein the carriage changes level and/or direction, and the modified signal is used to control the chair leveling motor through its range of travel. The apparatus comprises a carriage, a chair mounted on the carriage, the angle of the chair relative to the rail, a levelling mechanism that alters the angle of the chair relative to the rail, and a control system that controls the leveling mechanism in accordance with the above method.
Patent GB-2559641-A (GB)
Title: Process
Inventor: DENA ROBERTS
IPC: C07C69/675
Filed: 2017-09-15
Abstract: A process for the production of glycolic acid or a derivative thereof comprises: (a) reacting formaldehyde with carbon monoxide and water in a carbonylation reactor 5 in the presence of a sulfur catalyst, such that glycolic acid is formed; (b) recovering a first product stream comprising glycolic acid, impurities and a sulfur species in the carbonylation reactor 5; (c) passing the first product stream to an esterification reactor 12 where it is subjected to esterification to form an alkylglycolate and wherein the esterification is catalysed by the sulfur species recovered in the first product stream; (d) recovering a second product stream comprising the alkylglycolate, sulfur species and impurities from the esterification reactor 12; (e) separating the sulfur species from the second product stream and recycling it to the carbonylation reactor 5 in step (a) to form a sulphur depleted second product stream; (f) separating the alkylglycolate from the sulphur depleted second product stream in a distillation zone 19; (g) recovering the alkylglycolate and converting the alkylglycolate to glycolic acid in a hydrolysis reactor 23.
Patent GB-2554579-A (GB)
Title: Image capture system with motion compensation
Inventor: RICHARD FRANCIS LYON
IPC: H04N5/374
Filed: 2016-08-12
Abstract: An example image system (210) may include a lens (220) that produces an image, an image sensor (230), an image stabilizer, and a controller (310). This image sensor (230) has a first edge and an opposite second edge. The first edge is placed closer to lens (210) such that it focuses on more distant objects. The image stabilizer provides a time-varying compensation of image motion at the image sensor. The controller (310) operates the image capture system (210) in a repeating cycle where the sensor (230) exposes and reads out an image progressively from one edge to the opposite edge. The controller (310) operates the image stabilizer to provide an image motion compensation that varies in time such that the image motion compensation is greater when exposing and reading the second edge of the sensor (230) than when exposing and reading the first edge of the sensor (230).
Patent GB-2558730-A (GB)
Title: Implantable device for sensing intravascular pressure
Inventor: Mohammad Reza Bahmanyar
IPC: H03H9/17
Filed: 2017-11-02
Abstract: An implantable device 100 for sensing intravascular pressure comprises a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator 120, and an acoustic reflector 130. The BAW resonator is arranged to be deflected by changes in intravascular fluid pressure, e.g. blood pressure, to provide a pressure dependent sensing signal, and the acoustic reflector, or acoustic mirror, is arranged to separate the BAW resonator from the intravascular fluid to mediate pressure from the fluid to the resonator. The reflector has a layer structure, which may be a flexible layer enclosing a fluid layer 140b, to provide a series of transitions in acoustic impedance between the fluid and resonator. The sensor device may include a body 110, or substrate, with a fluid filled cavity 140a at a reference pressure which may be closed and hermetically sealed by the resonator. A second cavity (Fig.4, 240) may also be provided in the body, and a sensor circuit 150 may be located within the reference or second cavity. Typically the fluid in the reflector fluid layer and cavities may be a gas. Separation of the BAW resonator from the intravascular fluid by the acoustic reflector may help to avoid signal loss through mass loading of the resonator.
Patent GB-2557079-A (GB)
Title: High-power fuse-protected capacitor for downhole electrocrushing drilling
Inventor: WILLIAM M MOENY
IPC: E21B41/00
Filed: 2016-05-05
Abstract: A downhole drilling system is disclosed. The downhole drilling system may include a drill bit including a first electrode and a second electrode. The downhole drilling system may also include a pulse-generating circuit coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode. A capacitor within the pulse-generating circuit may include a plurality of electrode sheets and a plurality of dielectric sheets interleaved with the plurality of electrode sheets. Each of the dielectric sheets may include a composite material including a polymer matrix formed from a polymer component and a nanoparticle component that increases the dielectric constant of the composite material above that of the polymer component.
Patent GB-2577470-A (GB)
Title: Classification using gap in signal processing
Inventor: JOSEPH CONNOR
IPC: G06Q30/02
Filed: 2018-04-27
Abstract: A method of inferring a status or recommendation by analysing gaps in the signals generated by one or more humans or autonomous systems. A processing system such as a phone or phone network may measures gaps in a dialogue and monitor gaps in turn taking between a person ‘A’ and a person ‘B’. These gaps may be analysed using statistical techniques. For example, if person ‘A’ was a customer service representative, and person ’B’ was a customer, the root mean square difference in the gaps in speech from the average gap in a customer service dialogue could be used to infer a classification to that dialogue, such as if the customer is satisfied or an issue is resolved. Either ‘A’ or ‘B’ may alternatively be an autonomous system such as a chat bot.
Patent GB-2561113-A (GB)
Title: Temperature determination based on emissivity
Inventor: David h donovan
IPC: G01N21/57
Filed: 2014-05-30
Abstract: An additive manufacturing system comprising a controller to determine an emissivity of a portion of a layer of build material 302 based on a measured optical property of the portion, or on object design data representing a degree of intended solidification of the portion; and determine a temperature of the portion 322 based on the determined emissivity and a measured radiation distribution 320. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including executable instructions causing a processor to receive data representing a measured radiation distribution emitted by a portion of material, determine an emissivity of the portion based on a measured absorbance or gloss of the portion 318 or on object design data representing a degree of intended solidification of the portion, and determine a temperature of the portion based on the determined emissivity and a measured radiation distribution. A method of determining temperature in an additive manufacturing system comprising, determining an emissivity of a portion of build material based on measuring an optical property of the portion or object design data, and determine the temperature of the portion based on the emissivity and measuring infra-red energy emitted 322.
Patent GB-2576322-A (GB)
Title: Mapping object instances using video data
Inventor: JOHN BRENDAN MCCORMAC
IPC: G06T7/73
Filed: 2018-08-13
Abstract: Using an object recognition pipeline to provide a mask output of objects detected in the frames. This is followed by fusing the mask output of the object recognition pipeline with depth data associated with the frames of video data to generate a map of object instances, including projecting the mask output to a model space for the map of object instances using a camera pose estimate and the depth data. An object instance in the map of object instances is defined using surface-distance metric values within a three-dimensional object volume, and has an object pose estimate indicating a transformation of the object instance to the model space. The object pose estimate and the camera pose estimate form nodes of a pose graph for the map of model instances. Preferably the fusing of the mask output with the depth data comprises estimating mask outputs for object instances using the camera pose estimate and comparing the estimated mask outputs with the mask output of the object recognition pipeline. Preferably, in response to an absence of an existing object instance in the frame of video data, a new object instance and object pose estimate is added to the map. The surface-distance metric values may be truncated signed distance function (TSDF) values.
Patent GB-2568347-A (GB)
Title: Head coil system and methods for enhancing and/or optimizing MRI
Inventor: William lau
IPC: G01R33/34
Filed: 2016-01-27
Abstract: Optionally adjustable head coil system and methods for enhancing and/or optimizing magnetic resonance imaging, involving a housing, the housing having at least one portion, the at least one portion having a lower portion, an upper portion, and opposing side portions, each at least one portion optionally in movable relation to any other portion for facilitating adjustability, each at least one portion configured to accommodate at least one radio-frequency coil, and the upper and lower portions each optionally configured to overlap and engage the opposing side portions for facilitating decoupling the at least one radio-frequency coil, and a tongue portion optionally in movable relation to any other portion for facilitating adjustability, engageable with the lower portion, and fixably couple-able with a transporter.
Patent GB-2582974-A (GB)
Title: Organic semiconductor transistors
Inventor: GUILLAUME FICHET
IPC: H01L51/10
Filed: 2019-04-12
Abstract: Method of forming a stack of layers defining transistor devices, wherein said stack comprises organic polymer semiconductor 14 providing semiconductor channels. Forming the stack comprises forming first non-crosslinked organic polymer dielectric layer 4a, 4b on substrate 2. Forming a source-drain conductor pattern 10a, 10b in contact with an upper surface of the first dielectric layer 4a, 4b by patterning conductor layer 10 (Figure 6) using an acidic patterning agent. Prior to forming said conductor layer 10, the dielectric layer 4a, 4b is treated with an alkaline agent. Forming the semiconductor layer 14 over the upper surface of the first dielectric layer 4a, 4b at least in the regions of the semiconductor channels. Forming a second non-crosslinked organic polymer dielectric layer 16 in contact with the upper surface of the organic semiconductor layer 14 at least in the regions of the semiconductor channels. Top gate transistor device formed by said method.
Patent GB-2583741-A (GB)
Title: Kinase screening assays
Inventor: JONATHAN HIGGINS
IPC: C12Q1/48
Filed: 2019-05-08
Abstract: A method of identifying or profiling a target cellular kinase that phosphorylates a selected substrate, comprising: a) providing a plurality of test protein preparations comprising the target cellular kinase and at least one phosphatase inhibitor; b) incubating each test protein preparation with the selected substrate and a kinase inhibitor, wherein the kinase inhibitor is different for each test protein preparation; c) determining whether the selected substrate is phosphorylated in each of the test protein preparations of b), thereby obtaining an inhibition profile for the target cellular kinase; and d) comparing the target cellular kinase inhibition profile with the inhibition profiles of known kinases, wherein the most similar known kinase inhibition profile(s) identify or profile the target cellular kinase. Uses of such kinases (or their corresponding inhibitors) in diagnosis or in therapy are including cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic immune thrombocytopenia, glaucoma, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis also claimed
Patent GB-2584333-A (GB)
Title: A cam arrangement
Inventor: Robert Rossall
IPC: E05C9/18
Filed: 2019-05-31
Abstract: An adjustable cam arrangement 10 for a lock mechanism of a window or door closure. The cam arrangement 10 comprises a cam 14 rotatable about an axis between a plurality of angular positions; and a retention mechanism which, when engaged, retains the cam 14 in its current angular position. The cam 14 is moveable along the axis between a first axial position in which the retention mechanism is engaged and a second axial position in which the retention mechanism is disengaged to permit rotation. Preferably the cam is offset from its axis to rotate eccentrically varying the lateral compression within associated keeper. The retention mechanism may be interference fit between the cam and the lock mechanism and the cam may include splined shaft engaging splines on the lock mechanism. The cam may also include a bias such as spring or wave washer to urge the cam axially into the engaged position.
Patent GB-2571499-A (GB)
Title: A dust collector for gaseous fluids and a method for manufacturing the dust collector
Inventor: VAINER MARCHESINI
IPC: B01D46/24
Filed: 2017-12-22
Abstract: The invention relates to a dust collector for gaseous fluids and to a method for manufacturing the dust collector. The dust collector, used for removing dust from gaseous fluids containing fine dust, is equipped with a periodic cleaning system and comprises one or more filtering assemblies (1 ) that have filtering elements (2). The filtering elements (2) have a tubular extension and are closed at one end. They are made of a rigid or semirigid filtering material and are kept in contact with each other along a direction parallel to their length; the filtering elements (2) enclose, between them, flow channels (3) open at one end and closed at the end oppositethe end at which the filtering elements (2) are closed. The method for manufacturing a filtering assembly (1 ) of the dust collector comprises the steps of: permanently deforming a sheet of a filtering material so as to obtain a corrugated sheet (8) with a cross-section defined by repetitions of Ώ-shaped forms that are connected to each other; coupling two deformed sheets, so as to keep the straight parts of the reshaped forms in contact and to obtain rows of filtering elements (2); connecting the various rows of filtering elements to each other, by placing them in contact along generatrices of the elements facing each other; closing the ends of the filtering elements (2) and of flow channels (3) that are formed between the filtering elements.
Patent GB-2586626-A (GB)
Title: Combined balloon and stent PTCA catheter
Inventor: ANITA REBECCA LOUISE RADOMSKI
IPC: A61M25/10
Filed: 2019-08-29
Abstract: A combined stent and balloon percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (ptca) dilation catheter, for coronary and peripheral vascular intervention, comprises a hub, a low-profile distal tip 8 and a shaft 3 that has two sequential balloons 6,7; a stent 5 mounted on the more proximal balloon 6. An inflation/deflation device can be attached to either a first hub port 1, to deliver a contrast medium to inflate the distal balloon 7 for pre or post-dilation, or to a side hub port 2, to inflate and deploy the stent. Each port is fluidically connected to the respective balloons via an independent contrast medium channel/lumen (9,10, Fig 3).
Patent GB-2589146-A (GB)
Title: Tray
Inventor: NIGEL DAVIS
IPC: B65D85/60
Filed: 2019-11-25
Abstract: A tray 2 made of lightweight foldable sheet material comprising at least one pocket 8 for receiving product, the tray comprising a top sheet 4 defining at least one top sheet opening 10, and a bottom sheet (6, fig 2) attached to the top sheet with at least one bottom sheet opening (12, fig 2) aligned with the openings 10. The sheets comprise respective top 28, 30, 32 and bottom (50, fig 4) sheet flaps. The top sheet flaps are folded to extend through the openings (12) to define a side wall 66, 68, 70 of the pocket. Bottom sheet flap (50) is folded to define at least in part pocket side wall 72, and bottom sheet flap distal panel (50D, fig 4) defines at least in part base wall 64 of pocket, within each pocket 8, at least one top sheet flap distal panel 28D, 30D, 32D is bonded to a bottom sheet flap. The pockets 8 may be of different depth. Various types of product may be presented in this manner, including, but not limited to, food item(s), such as confectionary, or cosmetic products. One example of such a package would be a seasonal selection pack.
Patent GB-2590676-A (GB)
Title: Power supply unit
Inventor: STEPHEN GREETHAM
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 2019-12-23
Abstract: A power supply unit 1 includes a first battery unit 2 and a second battery unit 3 connected in series, a transformer 10 having a tapped primary winding, a first switch 40 connected between the positive terminal 4 of the first battery unit 2 and a first end of the primary winding 21, a second switch 41 connected between the negative terminal of the second battery unit 7 and a second end of the primary winding 22, and a controller 70 for controlling the first switch 40 and the second switch 41. The tapped terminal of the primary winding 23 is connected to a node 8 located between the two battery units. The power supply unit further comprises a first return path 50 that provides unidirectional current flow from a first node 51 to a second node 52, and a second return path 60 that provides unidirectional current flow from a third node 61 to a fourth node 62. The first node 51 is located between the negative terminal of the second battery unit 7 and the second switch 41, the second node 52 is located between the first switch 40 and the first end of the primary winding 21, the third node 61 is located between the second end of the primary winding 22 and the second switch 41, and the fourth node 62 is located between the positive terminal of the first battery unit 4 and the first switch 40. The transformer 10 operates as a flyback converter.
Patent GB-2591257-A (GB)
Title: Cable manager
Inventor: JOHN HYNES
IPC: H02G3/32
Filed: 2020-01-22
Abstract: A cable management device relating to removable cable brackets. The cable management device 10 comprises a base 16, and first and second arms 12,14 extending from the base 16 in a first direction. The base 16 and the arms 12, 14 together define an enclosure (figure 2, 38) suitable for receiving one or more cables. The cable management device 10 further comprises a first attachment device 18 configured to releasably attach the cable management device 10 to a support element (figure 3, 50). The first attachment device 18 comprises an elongate rod (figure 2, 42) attached to the base portion 16 and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The base 16 and the arms 12, 14 have a width dimension W in the second direction and the length of the elongate rod (figure 2, 42) is greater than the width dimension W so that the rod (figure 2, 42) extends beyond each side of the enclosure (figure 2, 38).