baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2522071-A (GB)
Title: A razor blade cleaning device, system and method
Inventor: LAM DAVID
IPC: A45D27/48
Filed: 2014-01-14
Abstract: A razor blade cleaning device 10 suitable for cleaning the head 22 of a safety razor 24 comprises a cleaning chamber for receiving a razor head 22. A fluid is fed through the cleaning chamber to contact the blades of a razor head 22 disposed therein. The device preferably comprises a base 12, with a receiving portion (20, fig.2) and a cleaning head 14 which together define the cleaning chamber. Fluid openings (40, fig.3) allow fluid to enter the cleaning chamber, preferably via a manifold arrangement. Waste may be removed from the cleaning chamber via opening (58, fig.2). The device may include a transmitter which uses a wireless communications link to transmit usage data to a remote location. The device may be activated upon detection of a razor 24 in the cleaning chamber.
Patent GB-2523168-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle cleaning apparatus
Inventor: FINDLAY STEPHEN JOSEPH
IPC: B60S3/04
Filed: 2014-02-17
Abstract: A vehicle cleaning apparatus for removing dirt from a vehicle as the vehicle drives over the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a trackway comprising a plurality of transversely extending members which are spaced longitudinally along the trackway. The trackway comprises a raised section comprising a first set of the transversely extending members, and a ramp arranged to allow the vehicle to travel between the raised section and a lower end of the ramp. The ramp comprises a second set of the transversely extending members. The first set of the transversely extending members comprises a first subset and a second subset of the transversely extending members. The transversely extending members of the first subset are raised with respect to those in the second subset. The second set of the transversely extending members comprises a third subset and a fourth subset of the transversely extending members. The transversely extending members of the third subset are raised with respect to those in the fourth subset.
Patent GB-2514217-A (GB)
Title: Variable speed motor drive for industrial machine
Inventor: ANDERSON CHARLES M JR
IPC: B02C4/42
Filed: 2014-03-05
Abstract: An industrial machine has a breaker motor 1120, a breaker shaft, a sensor 1130, and a controller 1100. The breaker shaft is coupled to the breaker motor 1120 and has tools to crush material. The sensor 1130 generates a signal related to a parameter of the breaker motor 1120, for example, voltage, current, speed, torque or power. The controller 1100 receives the signal and determines a value for the parameter and compares the value to a threshold value. A control signal is generated for modifying the rotational speed of the breaker motor 1120 based on the comparison.
Patent GB-2516345-A (GB)
Title: Physical object detection and touchscreen interaction
Inventor: TIJSSEN REMON
IPC: G06F3/0488
Filed: 2014-05-02
Abstract: Disclosed is an input device, such as a multifunction straight edge or a keyboard, with a recognizable contact shape when placed on a touchscreen display surface of a computing device. When the input device is recognized by the host device an object is displayed in a position relative to the input device. The input device includes an interaction module that interfaces with a companion module of the computing device. The interaction module can receive a user input to the input device, and communicate the user input to the companion module of the computing device to modify the display of the object on the touchscreen display surface. The contact shape of the input device can be a defined pattern of contact points, and a location and orientation of the input device on the touchscreen display surface is determinable from the defined pattern of the contact points.
Patent GB-2524121-A (GB)
Title: Assigning primitives to tiles in a graphics processing system
Inventor: YANG XILE
IPC: G06T15/40
Filed: 2014-06-17
Abstract: A tiling unit assigning primitives to tiles in a graphics processing system which has a rendering space subdivided into a plurality of tiles. Each tile can comprise one or more polygonal region. Mesh logic of the tiling unit can determine that a plurality of primitives form a mesh and can determine whether the mesh entirely covers a region. If the mesh entirely covers the region then a depth threshold for the region can be updated so that subsequent primitives which lies behind the depth threshold are culled (i.e. not included in the display list for a tile). This helps to reduce the number of primitive IDs included in a display list for a tile which reduces the amount of memory used by the display list and reduces the number of primitives which a hidden surface removal (HSR) module needs to fetch to perform HSR on the tile.
Patent GB-2512771-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ablutionary fittings
Inventor: FEARNLEY KARL ANTONY
IPC: E03C1/04
Filed: 2012-12-21
Abstract: An ablutionary fitting such as a tap (1) has a body (2) and a control lever (3). The body (2) has an outlet (4) and a supply inlet (5). The body (2) is configured to receive a control valve cartridge (6) inserted through an aperture (12) in base (11) of the body (2) for controlling the flow of fluid from the supply inlet (5) to the outlet (4). The body (2) comprises a single-piece and includes a rearwardly facing body aperture (7) providing access through the body (2) for connecting the control lever (3) to the control valve cartridge (6). A grip portion of the control lever (3) is spaced above an unbroken upper surface (25) of the body (2) and is configured so that a perimeter of the grip portion overlies and is aligned with a perimeter of the upper surface (25) of the body (2) in a closed position of the control lever (3).
Patent GB-2519192-A (GB)
Title: Cipher anti-breaking structure of mechanical cipher lock and cipher anti-breaking plate thereof
Inventor: YI JIAN HUA
IPC: E05B37/20
Filed: 2014-07-23
Abstract: A mechanical cipher lock comprising an anti lock-breaking plate 1 on which a notch 11 is defined corresponding to each cipher key 2, wherein each cipher key 2 has a projection 21 in its lower part, and wherein the notch 11 is configured for achieving a grip with the projection 21 so as to prevent the cipher key 2 moving longitudinally, e.g. up/ down. The grip may be achieved through the turn of a knob 3. The plate 1 may be a flat panel, in the middle of which a rectangular through-hole is defined for the cipher keys 2 to penetrate. Preferably, the notches 11 are configured in intervals along the two long sides of the rectangular through-hole. The invention improves lock security by preventing hand sensing, i.e. the exploitation of assembling clearance or diastema in the lockset to find the code by comparing feel or pressing force per cipher button.
Patent GB-2531793-A (GB)
Title: Communication apparatus
Inventor: STEPHEN DEREK FINCH
IPC: E21B47/14
Filed: 2014-10-31
Abstract: Communication apparatus comprises a first transceiver unit 205A and a signal processing device 106 configured to receive a signal from the first transceiver unit and to produce a signal for transmission by the first transceiver unit. A cable 201A connects the first transceiver unit to the signal processing device. The first transceiver unit comprises a housing, a first pair of transducers 204T, 204R located at, or adjacent, a first end of the housing, and a second set of transducers 206T, 206R located at, or adjacent, an opposite end of the housing.
Patent GB-2522533-A (GB)
Title: Electrosurgical apparatus for generating radiofrequency energy and microwave energy for delivery into biological tissue
Inventor: HANCOCK CHRISTOPHER PAUL
IPC: H01P1/213
Filed: 2014-12-04
Abstract: An isolating circuit 200 for an electrosurgical generator arranged to produce radiofrequency (RF) energy and microwave energy for treating biological tissue. The generator has an RF channel from an RF signal generator 218 and a microwave channel from a microwave signal generator 220 which are combined at a signal combining circuit 206 to enable the RF energy and microwave energy to be delivered into tissue along a common feed path. The isolating circuit comprises a tunable waveguide isolator 202 at a junction between the microwave channel and signal combiner, and can include a capacitive structure between a ground conductor of the signal combiner and a conductive input section of the waveguide isolator to inhibit coupling of the RF energy and leakage of the microwave energy. The isolating circuit can combine into a single tunable unit all the necessary components to isolate the microwave and RF channels from one another whilst providing a high withstanding voltage.
Patent GB-2527402-A (GB)
Title: Chip, multichip module, and apparatus provided with the same
Inventor: SUZUKI TATSUYA
IPC: H04N5/372
Filed: 2015-04-08
Abstract: A chip 101-1 including a plurality of unit cells 250; a scanning circuit 203 that scans the unit cells, thereby making each of the unit cells output a signal; a voltage-to-current conversion (V-I) circuit 209; and a current-to-voltage conversion (I-V) circuit 207. The I-V circuit 207 converts a first current signal input into the chip into a first voltage signal which activates the scanning circuit 203. The V-I circuit 209 converts a second voltage signal output from the scanning circuit into a second current signal which is output from the chip. A multichip module is also disclosed comprising first 101-1 and second 101-2 chips, each of which have a plurality of unit cells; a scanning circuit adapted to scan the plurality of unit cells; a V-I circuit; and an I-V circuit. A voltage output from the first chip scanning circuit is converted to a current in the V-I circuit of the first chip. This current signal passes from the first chip to the second chip I-V circuit. This signal controls the start time of the scanning circuit of the second chip. The multichip module may reside in a copier, wherein the unit cells are light sensitive, or may reside in a printer, wherein the unit cells comprise liquid ejecting inkjets.
Patent GB-2531376-A (GB)
Title: Device for splicing reinforcement cages
Inventor: RENDER STEPHEN
IPC: E04C5/16
Filed: 2015-05-05
Abstract: A device 110 for splicing a first reinforcement cage 12 to a second reinforcement cage 22 wherein the first cage comprises a suspension band 30 adjacent to one of its ends and the second cage carries the device adjacent one of its ends, the device comprising: a first anchoring portion 112 attached to said second cage adjacent said one, a second anchoring portion 114 connected to the first anchoring portion and radially spaced there from to define a radial suspension gap 118 between the first and second anchoring portions; and - a suspension member anchored in each of said first and second portions so as to bridge said suspension gap with the suspension band of the first cage located in said suspension gap Preferably the first and second anchoring portions are parts of a bifurcated, e.g. U-sectioned, or a three-sectioned, support plate or yoke. The suspension member e.g. a bolt, is thus supported at both its ends by the first and second anchoring portions in the manner of a simply supported beam as the spliced reinforcement cages are lifted together.
Patent GB-2539012-A (GB)
Title: Method and system of testing the proper functioning of a catalyzed particulate filter of an internal combustion engine
Inventor: CRISTIAN TAIBI
IPC: F02D41/02
Filed: 2015-06-03
Abstract: A system and method of testing a catalysed particulate filter 290 such as a CDPF included in an after-treatment system 270 of an internal combustion engine. A regeneration of the filter is performed using an ECU during which the amount of particulate trapped in the filter is determined and when low enough values of an oxygen concentration in an exhaust gas are measured upstream and downstream of the filter using oxygen sensors 291/292 such as lambda or nitrogen oxide sensors. The difference between the values is calculated possibly by the ECU integrating the difference over a predetermined time and a malfunctioning filter identified if the difference is below a predetermined threshold value whereupon the driver may be warned. The predetermined threshold may be determined by a volumetric flow rate of the exhaust gas, engine speed and engine torque. The after-treatment system may also include an EGR duct and diesel oxidation catalysts 285 (DOC), NOx traps or selective catalytic reduction systems.
Patent GB-2536512-A (GB)
Title: Clutch relay device
Inventor: JIANQI LI
IPC: F16H35/00
Filed: 2013-12-12
Abstract: Disclosed is a clutch relay device. The device comprises a driving shaft (3). A gear (1) is arranged on the driving shaft (3), a spring box (2) is arranged on a lateral side of the gear (1), a plane volute spring (4) is arranged between the driving shaft (3) and the spring box (2), the inner end of the plane volute spring (4) is wound on the driving shaft (3), and the outer end thereof is connected to the spring box (2). By means of the change of a relative angle between the driving shaft (3) and the gear (1), the device achieves the bidirectional clutch effect, solves the problems of collision and interference caused by the engagement and disengagement of a gear and a rack and the non-synchronization of two motors, and guarantees the stable operation in a relay process. The plane volute spring (4) can achieve overrunning within a certain range, provides an overrunning space within a certain range, and keeps a pre-tightening force in an unloaded state, so that the gear can be reset.
Patent GB-2529761-A (GB)
Title: High-speed recording disk defect detection
Inventor: SANO YUICHIRO
IPC: G11B19/04
Filed: 2015-07-31
Abstract: A hard disk drive (100, fig.1) comprises a disk media 420 rotatably mounted on a spindle (124, fig.1), a suspension 400 comprising a flexure 402 and a multiple stage actuator utilising a piezoelectric device 404 for moving a head slider 412. An electronic component processes a signal from the piezoelectric actuator to identify where on a disk the slider encounters a disk defect 450. The signal received from the piezoelectric actuator may be based on the mechanical propagation, through the suspension to the piezoelectric actuator, of an effect of slider contact with the protrusion 450. Further, an actuator may be commanded to systematically move the head slider across the writeable portion of the disk to map all the protrusions on the writeable portion of the disk. An embedded contact sensor may report the location of a pit on the disk.
Patent GB-2531635-A (GB)
Title: Water treatment
Inventor: PAUL DAY
IPC: C02F5/00
Filed: 2015-08-13
Abstract: A method of treating water comprises the provision of a container 15 through which water flows, the container comprising or containing first and second metallic components wherein the second metallic component is higher in the electro-chemical series that the first metallic component. The first and second metallic components define a path through which the water flows to complete a natural galvanic circuit. A control circuit is provided which is connected to the first and second metallic components, wherein the control circuit comprises current control means 17. An electrical supply 20 is provided that supplies DC current to the first and second metallic components via the control circuit. The method also involves the provision of a water flow rate sensor 14, wherein the current control means is employed to control the DC current in the control circuit as a function of water flow rate. Suitably, the first and second metallic components comprise a copper cathode and a zinc anode respectively. An apparatus for treating water is also claimed. This invention provides a descaling water treatment which is effective against hard water.
Patent GB-2542179-A (GB)
Title: Renewable energy & compressed air storage supply network (RECASSEN)
Inventor: MELVYN CRAIG GILLAM
IPC: F02C6/16
Filed: 2015-09-11
Abstract: A supply network comprises the use of renewable energy to produce compressed air for storage which can subsequently be used to generate electricity (such as in a compressed air energy storage (CAES) system). The network can then supply both electricity and compressed air to client industries at all times on demand. The compressed air may be stored in an underground pipeline network, as well as other vessels and reservoirs (such as ground caverns). The same area of land can thus be used for the direct production and supply of both compressed air and electricity on a continual basis.
Patent GB-2527225-A (GB)
Title: Method for manufacturing an insulated gate bipolar transistor
Inventor: RAHIMO MUNAF
IPC: H01L29/739
Filed: 2014-03-28
Abstract: A method for manufacturing an insulated gate bipolar transistor (10), which comprises a drift layer (3) of a first conductivity type between an emitter side (65), at which a gate electrode (7) and an emitter electrode (8) are arranged, and a collector side (45) opposite to the emitter side (65), at which a collector electrode (9) is arranged, is provided. The manufacturing method comprises manufacturing steps in the following order: - proving a substrate (1) of a second conductivity type, which is opposite to the first conductivity type, having a first and a second side (12, 14) opposite to the first side, - creating a first layer (25) of the first conductivity type on the first side (12) by applying a dopant, - creating a drift layer (3) of the first conductivity type on the first layer (25), which has a low doping concentration, - diffusing the ions such that a buffer layer (2) having a buffer layer thickness (22) is created, wherein the buffer layer (2) has a higher doping concentration than the drift layer (3), - creating a base layer (5) of the second conductivity type on the drift layer (3), - creating an emitter layer (6) of the first conductivity type on the base layer (5), - thinning (48) the substrate (1) on the second side (14) such that the remaining part of the substrate forms a collector layer (4).
Patent GB-2543780-A (GB)
Title: Cryptographic program diversification
Inventor: JAN-ERIK GUSTAV EKBERG
IPC: H04L9/00
Filed: 2015-10-27
Abstract: A server generates 20 a personalisation program 22 that creates a diversification value from applying a selected function to a subset of variables that characterise a mobile device. The variables may include the IMEI, MAC address, processor type, firmware version or an embedded variable. A code obfuscated version of the program 24 is transmitted to a user device for installation and execution 26. The diversification value generated is unique to its environment and is applied to a cryptographic program 18 such that operation is dependent on this fingerprint. A copy is sent securely to a server for use in an equivalent cryptographic program 16 to enable secure communication. The personalisation inputs read from the user device may be sent securely to the server instead so that the same diversification value may be calculated and used. The personalised cryptographic program is effectively bound to the user device and cannot be operated if copied to another device.
Patent GB-2529345-A (GB)
Title: Guaranteeing anonymity of linked data graphs
Inventor: GKOULALAS-DIVANIS ARIS
IPC: G06F21/62
Filed: 2014-04-08
Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for transforming a Linked Data graph into a corresponding anonymous Linked Data graph, in which semantics is preserved and links can be followed to expand the anonymous graph up to r times without breaching anonymity (i.e., anonymity under r-dereferenceability). Anonymizing a Linked Data graph under r- dereferenceability provides privacy guarantees of ^-anonymity or /-diversity variants, while taking into account and preserving the rich semantics of the graph.
Patent GB-2534462-A (GB)
Title: A display apparatus
Inventor: NINA WOJTECKI
IPC: A47G7/04
Filed: 2015-11-25
Abstract: A display apparatus for flowers or the like comprises a base member 1 having an upper and lower surface, an upright member in the form of a tube or pole 3, and an upper mounting member 2 having an upper and lower surface. The base member has a first attachment portion 10 at or within its upper surface to which the tube or pole attaches so as to be supported in use in a substantially vertical orientation with respect to said base member. The upper mounting member comprises second attachment portion 6 at or within its lower surface to which the tube or pole in use attaches so that the upper mounting member is supported above both the pole and the base member, with its upper surface substantially horizontal with respect to the vertically mounted pole. An intermediate connector 4 may be provided so that two or more poles may be employed. In use the display apparatus can provide vertically layered displays at weddings or other formal occasions or celebrations.
Patent GB-2531440-A (GB)
Title: Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof
Inventor: SUDO KOJI
IPC: H04N5/232
Filed: 2014-08-19
Abstract: Image capturing apparatus with light-emitting notification means providing notification of self-timer operation status, time setting means to set a time of the self-timer (e.g. 5 seconds), and control means controlling light-emitting means to provide a notification of the self-timer status if the time of self-timer is not shorter than a predetermined time (e.g. 10 seconds) and to not provide a notification of the self-timer status if the time of self-timer is shorter than a predetermined time (e.g. 2 seconds). Mode setting means may set one of plurality of operation modes, with a first mode that may control light emitting notifications irrespective of the time set on the self-timer, and a second mode for a dark place (e.g. shooting a starry sky, nightscape or skyrocket) with notifications turned on or off in accordance with the time set on the self-timer. Countdown self-timers are used in group photography or with a tripod to prevent camera shake.
Patent GB-2545693-A (GB)
Title: Advanced tire monitoring system
Inventor: WILLIAM STEWART
IPC: B60C23/06
Filed: 2015-12-22
Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system (111, Fig.1) comprising a tire pressure monitoring device for mounting on an internal surface of a tire and including a pressure sensor 208 for monitoring the fluid pressure in the tire(101-104). The system has a data storage device, RFID tag 401, located on the tire separately from the tire pressure monitoring device. In response to detecting a tire pressure event from monitoring the fluid pressure of said fluid, the tire pressure monitoring device causes the RFID to transmit data, which is received by the tire pressure monitoring device. This permits the communication of data such as manufacturer, recommended tyre pressure, date of manufacture, mileage covered, etc. between the pressure sensor and the RFID tag. Pressure change detection may be event of new tyre being fitted to rim, i.e. from atmospheric to in use pressure, or the opposite for removal of old tyre. Also claimed is a tyre monitoring device for the inside of a tire comprising spaced apart transponder coils using comparison of strength of induced signal in the respective coil to establish rotation direction of wheel.