baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2352183-A (GB)
Title: Trocar sleeve with a duckbill valve
Inventor: NOESEL BERND
IPC: A61B17/34
Filed: 2000-06-02
Abstract: A trocar sleeve (1) for introducing instruments (9) into gas filled body spaces includes an insertion tube (2) and a valve chamber (3) disposed proximally on it with a duckbill valve (4) of elastic material arranged therein. The valve (4) comprises a tubular body (5) which extends coaxially with respect to the axis of the insertion tube and is of pitched roof construction at its end closest to the insertion tube with two flat inclined walls (7) defining a ridge with a slit (8) extending therein transverse to the axis of the tubular body. In the uninstalled rest state, the external size of the tubular body (5) is greater than the internal size of the valve chamber (3) in the direction transverse to the slit (8).
Patent GB-2351281-A (GB)
Title: Supplying pellets to discharge lamp arc tube
Inventor: FUKAI KUNIO
IPC: H01J9/395
Filed: 2000-06-23
Abstract: Supplying pellets without the risk of enlarging the apparatus size or moisture absorption by the pellets is achieved by disposing a rotation drum 42 provided with a pellet storage room in a sealed case 30 with an inert gas supply 49. The apparatus according to the present invention has a main body case 30 with a rotation drum storage part formed therein, a lid (38, fig 9) mounted on the front surface opening part of the main body case, a rotation drum 42 disposed rotatably in the rotation drum storage part 45, and a pellet supply nozzle 34 elongating from the main body. Through holes 45 having a size capable of passing a pellet are provided on the circumferential wall of the rotation drum 42 with an equal interval in the circumferential direction as well as the side wall of the main body case 30 to be contacted slidably with the circumferential wall of the rotation drum. A gas supply hole 32 for supplying an inert gas into the pellet storage room via the through holes 45, and a pellet discharging hole 33 for discharging the pellet located in the through hole 45 at the time that the pellet storing through holes 45 coincide with the discharging hole 33 according to rotation of the rotation drum 42. A method of supplying pellets to an arc tube is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2365306-A (GB)
Title: Marine trap
Inventor: MACVICAR HELEN JOHNSTONE
IPC: A01K69/06
Filed: 2000-08-02
Abstract: A marine trap (20) comprising a frame structure enclosing a three dimensional space, a bar (24) located at the base of the frame, and one or more apertured bodies (26) provided on the bar (24). The apertured bodies (26) may comprise reinforced rubber disks.
Patent GB-2351399-A (GB)
Title: Spring probe assembly for testing
Inventor: VINTHER GORDON A
IPC: G01R1/067
Filed: 1999-03-16
Abstract: An external spring probe assembly comprises spring probes each mounted in a cavity of a support and retained at one end by a restriction (108) in the cavity and at the other end by another restriction (114, figure 9) or by closing off the end, for example by a pcb (113, figure 13). Each probe has a flanged section at each end with a spring between the flanges.
Patent GB-2352152-A (GB)
Title: Formulation of complex room impulse responses from 3-D audio information
Inventor: MCKEAG ADAM RICHARD
IPC: G10K15/12
Filed: 1999-03-31
Abstract: A method for the creation of acoustic impulse responses for utilization in rendering to an array of speakers comprising the steps of: measuring a room response function; extracting a series of discrete time arrivals from the measured room response function so as to leave a reverberant residual response function; separately rendering the extracted series and the reverberant residual response function to the array of speakers to form a discrete response and a residual response; combining the discrete response and the residual response to form an acoustic impulse response for the array of speakers.
Patent GB-2359719-A (GB)
Title: Determination of crystalline and polycrystalline materials in an article
Inventor: HARTICK MARTIN
IPC: G01N23/20
Filed: 2000-11-07
Abstract: An X-ray diffraction method and apparatus for determining a material contained in a detected article in objects, in particular luggage. The radiation scattered from the material, which is dependent upon the crystal structure, is measured and compared with the characteristic energy or diffraction spectra of different explosives. In addition, the primary X-ray beam FX' with which the material is irradiated is used to measure the absorption of the material and an average atomic number of the material is determined from the absorption. This information is then used to aid the determination of the material. For this purpose a collimator/detector arrangement 5 preferably comprise only one collimator 8 and one detector 9, the collimator 8 having a conically widening circular slot 10 which reproduces a predetermined angle   r  <SB>M</SB> of a scattered conical beam path and has a central opening to the radiation source 12. In this opening 12 a first detection apparatus 13 and a second detection apparatus 14 are arranged serially, at a distance from one another. Here the first detection apparatus 13 forms a detector for lower X-ray energies and the second detection apparatus 14 forms a detector for higher X-ray energies, these likewise being electrically connected to a computer 16.
Patent GB-2357778-A (GB)
Title: An apparatus for the hybridisation of cells
Inventor: POSCHEN LOTHAR
IPC: C12M3/06
Filed: 2000-11-10
Abstract: An apparatus for the hybridization of cells comprises a hybridization chamber (1) which is equipped at its base with a frit (4) and with a filter (3) which rests on the frit (4). The filter is fixed, via a sealing ring (8), by a bushing with an external screw thread which can be screwed into a second chamber (2). The second chamber (2) can be heated and the hybridization chamber (1) can be closed so that it is light-tight. Means for removing liquids (6) by suction adjoin the underside of the glass frit (4).
Patent GB-2360576-A (GB)
Title: Rechargeable battery powered mobile fire point with lamp
Inventor: BURTON CLAIRE
IPC: F21L4/08
Filed: 2001-03-19
Abstract: Mobile fire point designed for the automatic illumination of an exit route in locations having a mains supply where temporary fire precautions are required. It comprises a wheeled base 20, 24, 26 carrying a trickle-charged battery, and an upward extension 36, 38 which can be clamped in any vertically adjusted position on the base by screws 40. Two angularly-adjustable lamps 44 mounted at the top of the upward extension, and a siren 23 mounted on the base, are connected to the battery by way of a common switch. The electrical arrangement is such that if the mains supply fails due to a fire or other fault, the lamps and the siren, although normally manually switched off, are automatically switched on by a relay and powered by the battery. They can also be switched on manually and powered by the mains supply in an emergency not involving immediate mains failure, and if the supply subsequently fails will then be automatically powered by the battery by way of a back-up switch normally left in its on position.
Patent GB-2364156-A (GB)
Title: Gambling machine operation data acquisition and central register system
Inventor: VALENTA MIROSLAV
IPC: G08C19/00
Filed: 2001-04-24
Abstract: A gambling machine operation data acquisition and central register system comprising at least one collection and transmission module 2 connected to a gambling machine 1, at least one central register place server 4 and a mobile telephone network 3 providing connection between said module and said central register place server. The collection and transmission module 2 comprises a main processor (5, fig 2) having an input and output, integral counters (7) connected to said input, electromechanical counters generating signals applied to the integral counters, contact switches circuits (8) connected to said input, control and auxiliary circuits of the gambling machine connected to said input and a telephone module (6) connected to said output. Preferably, a lockup server 4' is provided.
Patent GB-2361664-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for cross-directional stretching of polymeric film and other nonwoven sheet material and materials produced therefrom
Inventor: JAMESON LEE KIRBY
IPC: A23L19/18
Filed: 1999-11-12
Abstract: A method for stretching nonwoven sheet material in the cross-machine direction includes coursing a nonwoven sheet material through a deformable nip, the nip being formed between two rotating stretch surfaces having intermeshing peaks and troughs, the surfaces of the peaks and troughs being covered with a deformable material, and contemporaneously pressing the stretch surfaces together while rotating them, such that as the nonwoven material travels through the nip, the nip deforms from an initial flat formation into a convoluted formation.
Patent GB-2376286-A (GB)
Title: Gun Case
Inventor: TAYLOR ROBERT CHARLES
IPC: F41C33/06
Filed: 2001-06-05
Abstract: A gun case comprises a first elongate part (1) for receiving the barrel or barrels of a shotgun and a second elongate part (2) for receiving the stock of the shotgun, the first and second parts being joined to each other an angle such that the shotgun can be housed in the case in the broken down, but not dismantled, condition.
Patent GB-2374072-A (GB)
Title: Piperidinium crosslinking agents and crosslinked polymers useful as catalysts
Inventor: YAMAMOTO HIROSHI
IPC: C08F226/06
Filed: 2001-06-15
Abstract: A crosslinked polymer having at least one crosslink structure and a tertiary amine structure and/or a quaternary ammonium salt structure,<BR> ```wherein at least one crosslink structure is represented by the following general formula (1) or (2):<BR> ```wherein the symbols are as defined in the specification, has good ion exchange capacity, catalytic activity and resistance to thermal decomposition. Crosslinking agents providing structures of the type (1) above, having the formula (3):<BR> ```wherein the symbols are as defined in the specification, are novel compounds. Methods of using the crosslinked polymer as a catalyst, and methods of producing a spherical particle in a viscous fluid medium are also claimed.
Patent GB-2366546-A (GB)
Title: A support structure for stationary structures and moving vehicles
Inventor: BARLEY GEOFFREY WILFRED
IPC: F16M11/42
Filed: 2001-09-04
Abstract: In order to render a wheeled vehicle, particularly an infant's pushchair, more stable on uneven ground, front and rear pairs of wheels 4,5 and 1,2 are mounted on pivotal axles 3,6 and a mechanical connection 12 between the two axles 3,6 translates pivotal movement of the front axle 6 into opposite pivotal movement of the rear axle 3. If, for example, the left-hand front wheel 4 rides-up over a bump as compared to the riht-hand front wheel 5, then the right-hand rear wheel 2 is caused to ride-up and the left-hand rear wheel 1 is driven down, which compensates for the tendency of the pushchair to tilt in response to the riding-up of the left-hand front wheel 4. Various mechanical connections are disclosed including linkages of different kinds and interconnecting gears. The support structure can also be applied to any hand trolley or cart, and to stationary structures such as tables, etc. where compensation for uneven ground is required.
Patent GB-2383247-A (GB)
Title: Multi-modal picture allowing verbal interaction between a user and the picture
Inventor: BELROSE GUILLAUME
IPC: G06F3/038
Filed: 2001-12-13
Abstract: A system for presenting a multi-modal picture includes picture presentation equipment (37) for displaying an image (38) of the picture and for enabling a user to interact with the picture by pointing to specific picture features and asking a specific query relating to the feature. A voice browser system (3) controlled according to dialog scripts (46) associated with the picture, determines an appropriate response having regard to the spoken user query and the picture feature being pointed to. Each picture can have multiple narrators associated with it and the user can choose which narrator is currently active. Picture authoring apparatus is also provided.
Patent GB-2369798-A (GB)
Title: Method for making a dashboard subassembly in particular a motor vehicle dashboard console
Inventor: BARAT DIDIER
IPC: H05K3/28
Filed: 2000-06-30
Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making a dashboard subassembly comprising electrical and/or electronic components (1) connected to conductors (2) and attached to a rigid support (3). The invention is characterised in that it consists in: providing a flexible mat (4) provided with said conductors (2); mounting said components (1) on said mat (4), connected to said electrical conductors (2); rigidising said mat (4) by overmoulding it with a material designed to form said support (3). The invention also concerns a dashboard subassembly, in particular a motor vehicle dashboard console, obtained by said method.
Patent GB-2374696-A (GB)
Title: Portable Drawing Viewer
Inventor: HERMAN BARRY
IPC: G06F1/16
Filed: 2002-02-18
Abstract: A portable drawing viewer (1) comprises a flat panel display screen (4); a microprocessor, and storage including memory, all contained by one case (2), the storage containing program instructions for operating the processor to display drawings contained by drawing files stored in the storage but not allowing modification of the drawings, independent of any properties or attributes of the drawings files. The preferred minimum dimensions for the display screen are at least 43cm by 30cm (more preferably 60cm by 43cm) correspond approximately to A2 size paper. The software ensures that no amendment can be made to the drawing on the viewer. A flat panel display screen may be implemented in any technology, e.g. thin film transistor/liquid crystal (TFT), plasma or folded cathode ray tube. As an example the thickness of the panel is less than 5% of the largest dimension of the panel. The viewer may be environmentally sealed. The viewer is used on building sites as a replacement for paper drawings, to view CAD drawings.
Patent GB-2370857-A (GB)
Title: Folding ladders
Inventor: BALFOUR MARK
IPC: E06C9/08
Filed: 2001-04-05
Abstract: A folding ladder includes a pair of elongated stiles (10 and 12), and a plurality of rungs (14, Figure 2) pivotally connected to the stiles in such manner that the ladder is movable between a folded, storage condition, in which the stiles (10 and 12) co-operate with one another to define a chamber within which the rungs are contained, and an unfolded condition in which the rungs extend horizontally. The ladder further includes semi-cylindrical interengaging cover formations (26) carried by the stiles, which in use protect the rungs and stiles when the ladder is in its folded, storage condition.
Patent GB-2383312-A (GB)
Title: Composite linkshaft bracket
Inventor: BEHRENSMEIER CARSTEN
IPC: B60K17/24
Filed: 2002-06-19
Abstract: A composite linkshaft / link shaft bracket 24 comprises a composite upper portion 50 and a lower portion 52 used to support a bearing supported linkshaft 20 in a vehicle. The composite linkshaft bracket replaces traditional cast iron linkshaft brackets because of weight and manufacturing cost (due to machining) disadvantages. The upper portion 50 is formed of a polymer material that is designed for sufficiently high eigenfrequencies due to a low specific weight and high stiffness and the ability to withstand heat distortion temperatures of at least 180{C. Preferably, the polymer material is reinforced with fibrous material such as glass fibre. The lower portion 52 is preferably formed from the same polymer material used in the composite upper portion, however may alternatively be formed of stamped metal.
Patent GB-2387966-A (GB)
Title: Metal oxide silicon device including nanometer scaled oxide structures to enhance light-emitting efficiency
Inventor: LIN CHING-FUH
IPC: H01L21/316
Filed: 2002-09-23
Abstract: A light-emitting metal-oxide-silicon (MOS) device includes a silicon-based substrate 10, a nanometre scaled oxide layer 20 on top of the substrate that has nanometre scaled features or structures and a metal layer 30 above this layer. The oxide layer may be replaced by a nitride or other suitable insulating layer. Preferably the oxide/insulating layer is between 1 and 100 nm thick and is composed of silicon dioxide nanoparticles. The silicon substrate may be replaced by any other indirect bandgap material such as germanium or silicon carbide.
Patent GB-2397246-A (GB)
Title: Golf putter
Inventor: KIRKWOOD ROBERT
IPC: A63B53/04
Filed: 2002-11-16
Abstract: A golf putter comprises a head 1 with an integral face 2, a sole 3 in the form of a backward extending flange with a flat area 13 on its underside to ensure accurate placement of the club on the putting surface, a flange 4 of similar thickness extending rearwardly from the upper edge of face 2 but only overlapping sole 3 to a limited extent in that rearward direction, and alignment marks on the upper surfaces of flange 4 and sole 3. When viewed from above, the alignment marks on both the sole 3 and the upper flange 4 form patterns determined by the relative position of the golfer's viewpoint and the clubhead.. With the clubhead correctly aligned in the desired putt direction, the golfer is able to adjust stance and therefore viewpoint until a predetermined and reproducible personal pattern appears. Preferably, the face is provided with negative loft so that with the ball point of contact above the vertical mid-point, an element of topspin is imparted by the putting stroke.
Patent GB-2396996-A (GB)
Title: Communication device for communicating a social interest to another person
Inventor: COSTA ALBERTO
IPC: G08B1/08
Filed: 2003-01-02
Abstract: A communication device which allows an individual A to discreetly and anonymously send a targeted signal or beam 1 to another individual B in his or her proximity and sight without the recipient being aware at that moment of the sender's social interest and that if, simultaneously or within a prescribed period of time, the recipient B so chooses to send a targeted signal or beam to the original sender A, then immediately upon sending said secondary signal both communications devices will discreetly indicate to both individuals that each has sent a signal to the other, thereby communicating each individual's social interest in the other. The signals 1 may be sent by radio, electromagnetic field, laser or infra-red radiation over a short range. The alert of contact may be by a vibration in the communication device.
Patent GB-2385475-A (GB)
Title: Base band circuit of receiver
Inventor: ICHIHARA MASAKI
IPC: H04B1/30
Filed: 2003-01-30
Abstract: A base band circuit of a receiver quickly converges a transition state due to gain fluctuation with setting a low cut-off frequency of a high-pass filter as low as possible. Variable gain amplifiers 302, 303, 304 amplify a base band signal depending upon a gain control signal, and a controller 102 detects variation of the gain control signal and controls a low cut-off frequency of high-pass filters 305, 306, 307 depending upon the detected variation.
Patent GB-2401423-A (GB)
Title: Beverage dispense system
Inventor: MOONEY WILLIAM ROBERT
IPC: B67D1/08
Filed: 2003-03-05
Abstract: A beverage dispense system has two coolant re-circulation loops. The first loop 7 is arranged to cool a beverage supply line 8 within the dispense head 1 and along the beverage supply line 8. The second loop 10, with a cooling temperature lower than the first loop, is arranged to cool an external surface 21 of a dispense head 1 to form ice or condensation 19, 20 and to further cool the beverage prior to dispension. The beverage supply line 8 to the dispense head 1 is arranged to pass beverage through a heat exchanger 9 to cool the beverage prior to dispensing by heat exchange with coolant from the return line in the second loop 10. A bypass line 15 allows the coolant to by-pass the heat exchanger 9 between dispenses. A trickle flow or intermittent flow of coolant through the heat exchanger 9 may be provided to maintain the temperature of the beverage between dispenses.
Patent GB-2400839-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for dispensing accurately metered doses of medicament
Inventor: THORNHILL TRISTIAN ROGER
IPC: A61M15/00
Filed: 2003-04-22
Abstract: An apparatus comprises a housing (3), having a chamber (4) for storing medicament, and a metering tube (7) having an opening (17) to interior thereof. The metering tube is extendable to a dispensing position (Figure 3) and retractable to a filling position (Figure 1), where the opening is in communication with the chamber. Preferably a piston (9) is located inside the metering tube and used to draw and expel the medicament into and out from the chamber. A method of using such an apparatus is also provided.
Patent GB-2386010-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to signal mixers
Inventor: SIDDALL WILLIAM MARK
IPC: H03D7/14
Filed: 2001-11-09
Abstract: The invention relates to a double balanced diode mixer (10) in which an input transformer (20) is replaced by an equivalent circuit (50) which approximates the functionality of the input transformer (20). The circuit includes an LCR network (50) which filters an input RF message signal and further includes a portion which approximates a functionality of transformer to provide RF differential output signals (61, 62) for transfer to a diode ring (21).
Patent GB-2387866-A (GB)
Title: Riser connector for a wellhead assembly and method for conducting offshore well operations using the smae
Inventor: BARNETT RICHARD C
IPC: E21B33/076
Filed: 2001-12-28
Abstract: A riser connector is provided for connecting a riser to a wellhead assembly having a bore therethrough. The connector includes a housing having a first and a second end. The first end of the housing has an opening and is adapted for mounting to the wellhead assembly with the opening in communication with the bore of the wellhead assembly. The second end has a first opening connectable to the riser having a diameter at least the same as the inner diameter of the riser, and a second opening, having a diameter at least substantially the same as the diameter o the bore of the wellhead assembly. The housing further includes a first conduit connecting the opening in the first end of the housing to the first opening in the second end of the housing, and a second conduit connecting the opening in the first end of the housing to the second opening in the second end of the housing. In use, first well operations are conducted using open water techniques and access the BOP and wellhead assembly and the well through the second conduit in the second conduit connector without the need to disconnect the riser from the connector. The riser connector is of particular use with risers having an inner diameter less than the diameter of the bore of the BOP and wellhead assembly, the second well operations being conducted using equipment which is too large to pass through the small bore riser.
Patent GB-2406488-A (GB)
Title: Sigalling in a communications network
Inventor: PUPUTTI MATTI
IPC: H04N7/24
Filed: 2003-09-29
Abstract: Signalling in a communications network includes the transmission of service information (SI) 10 data via a set of channels, at least a partial copy of this SI 10' and forward error correction (FEC) data for this copy are transmitted by a different second set of channels that may be a single channel. The communications network may be a unidirectional, digital broadcast system.
Patent GB-2407248-A (GB)
Title: Slug and snail repellent barrier
Inventor: SCOTT SIMON JOSEPH
IPC: A01G13/10
Filed: 2003-10-22
Abstract: The barrier comprises a structure, pattern or array of two dissimilar metal elements 2,3 joined at at least one point 4 so that in use a slug or snail which attempts to cross the barrier will come into contact with both elements causing a current to flow across its body. The elements may be arranged on adhesive tape or in the form of a physical barrier where one of the elements may form the body of the barrier. The elements may also be shielded.