baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2507297-A (GB)
Title: Piezoelectric vibration of an ion-source surface ionization structure to aid secondary droplet reduction
Inventor: BAJIC STEVAN
IPC: H01J49/04
Filed: 2012-10-25
Abstract: An ion source for a mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a nebulizer 1 and a target 10. The nebulizer 1 is arranged to emit a stream of predominantly droplets which are caused to impact upon the target 10 so as to ionize the droplet to form a plurality of ions, or to cause said droplets to form desolvated gas-phase molecules and or secondary droplets. The target 10 is vibrated by a piezoelectric vibration device so to reduce the size of resultant secondary droplets. The droplets emitted from the tip of the spray device 2 may be analyte or reagent droplets.
Patent GB-2497658-A (GB)
Title: Exhaust system comprising a PGM trap to reduce or prevent poisoning of SCR catalyst
Inventor: BLAKEMAN PHILIP GERALD
IPC: F01N3/035
Filed: 2012-12-11
Abstract: An exhaust system 10, for a vehicular lean-burn internal combustion engine, comprises: a first substrate monolith 6 comprising an SCR catalyst; at least one second substrate monolith 4 comprising a catalytic washcoat, comprising at least one platinum group metal (PGM), disposed upstream of the first substrate monolith; and a third substrate monolith 2 disposed between the first substrate monolith and the or each second substrate monolith. At least one PGM on the or each second substrate monolith is liable to volatilise when it is exposed to relatively extreme conditions including relatively high temperatures. The third substrate monolith comprises a washcoat coating for trapping volatilised PGM. The system reduces or prevents the SCR catalyst from being poisoned with PGM by adsorbing it. The third substrate monolith may comprise at least one metal oxide, and at least one metal of palladium, copper, silver and gold.
Patent GB-2497858-A (GB)
Title: Substituted heterocyclic compounds and their use as PIM kinase inhibitors
Inventor: BYRNE SIMON
IPC: A61K31/427
Filed: 2012-12-18
Abstract: A compound of formula I or II or a salt, hydrate or solvate thereof: wherein R1 is hydrogen or a substituent; Y is sulfur or NRb where Rb is hydrogen or (1-3C)alkyl; ring A is either (i) an optionally substituted 5-membered heteroaryl ring comprising a nitrogen atom and one or more heteroatoms selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, or (ii) an optionally substituted 5-membered heteroaryl ring; L is a chain linker or is absent; ring B is optionally substituted and is selected from (4-7C)cycloalkyl, heteroaryl, heterocyclyl and aryl. Preferably, Y is sulfur, ring A is selected from 1,3-thiazolyl, 1,3-oxazolyl and pyridyl, L is either absent or is    N(Me)C(O)- and ring B is selected from optionally substituted phenyl and substituted pyridyl. The compounds of formula I or II inhibit PIM (Proviral Integration site for the Moloney murine leukemia virus) kinase and may be useful in the treatment and/or prevention of proliferative disorders, such as cancer.
Patent GB-2498099-A (GB)
Title: Milling cutter and method of use
Inventor: NEUNER SIEGMAR
IPC: B23B51/10
Filed: 2012-12-27
Abstract: A method for making a hole (1) in a workpiece (3) is described, in which a drilling tool is initially used to make a pilot hole (7) having a diameter (D1, fig 1) which is then enlarged to a required final diameter (D2) using a metal-cutting tool (11) designed for precision machining of the pilot hole (7). The metal-cutting tool (11) has in the area of a tool tip (13) at least one cutting blade (15) extending at least approximately vertically to a central axis (M2) of the metal-cutting tool (11), and cutting edges helically extending on the circumferential side. There may be four to eight such cutting edges and the clearance angle of said cutting edges may range from 2     4 DEG.
Patent GB-2505079-A (GB)
Title: Self gripping adjustable spanner
Inventor: HSU CHANG HSUEH-O
IPC: B25B13/12
Filed: 2013-07-15
Abstract: A wrench includes a main body 1, a jaw portion 2, a handle 5 and an elastic element 4. The main body, formed in one piece, has a fixed jaw 11 and a sliding slot 12. The jaw portion has a movable jaw 21 wherein a bottom of the jaw forms a sliding portion 221 and at least one restricting recess 222b. The handle has at least one toggle element 53 which extend/s into the restricting recess/es. The handle is pivotably connected to the main body through pin 15 and apertures 13 and 54. A contact surface between a bottom of the sliding portion and a bottom of the sliding slot defines an interface wherein an extension of the interface traverses the restricting recess and the toggle element. The elastic element is disposed between the main body and the movable jaw so that it provides a resilient bias that tends to move the jaws together. When the handle is at a driving position, the toggle element abuts against the sliding portion. When the handle is at a release position, the movable jaw is able to move away from the fixed jaw.
Patent GB-2507844-A (GB)
Title: Generating and reconstructing a stereoscopic video stream having a depth or disparity map
Inventor: AMATO PAOLO D
IPC: H04N13/00
Filed: 2013-08-08
Abstract: A stereoscopic video stream is generated from composite images C that comprise information about a right image R and a left image L, as well as at least one depth map. Pixels are selected from the right image R and from the left image L, and then the selected pixels are entered into a composite image C of the stereoscopic video stream. All the pixels of the right image R and all the pixels of the left image L are entered into the composite image C by leaving one of said two images unchanged and breaking up the other one into regions R1, R2, R3 comprising a plurality of pixels. The pixels of the depth maps are then entered into that region of the composite image which is not occupied by pixels of the right and left images. The right and left images may be reconstructed starting from a composite image.
Patent GB-2517217-A (GB)
Title: Communication unit, integrated circuit and method for generating a plurality of sectored beams
Inventor: O'KEEFFE CONOR
IPC: H04W16/28
Filed: 2013-08-16
Abstract: A communication unit, integrated circuit, method or computer program product comprises: applying a first signal and at least one second signal to a transmitter, applying independent beamforming weights 308, 312 on the first and the at least second signals, respectively, and combining the signals 314. The said signals are multiplied 306, 310 by the said weights 308, 312. The communication system may be suitable for generating a plurality of sectored beams from an antenna array where a plurality of the antenna array elements 202 are coupled to a plurality of respective transceivers via respective coupling ports. The transmitted signals may be on the same carrier frequency or arranged in an overlapping occupied spectrum using at least one common antenna element. A frequency converter may be arranged to receive the combined signals. The system may include filtering, interpolation, analog and digital processing, crest factor reduction signal processing, signal polarisation, system calibration and distortion feedback arrangements. The communication system may provide efficient multiple-in multiple-out (MIMO) operation with high gain beams.
Patent GB-2506977-A (GB)
Title: Locking joint assembly
Inventor: SHAN LIN-HAI
IPC: A47D13/02
Filed: 2013-08-20
Abstract: The present invention is to provide a locking assembly including a joint device 20 and a safety lock mechanism 30. The joint device includes a first joint component 21, a second joint component 22 and a button assembly 23. The second joint component is pivoted to the first joint component. The button assembly is slidably disposed between the first joint component and the second joint component, and the button assembly is for locking a pivotal movement of the first joint component and the second joint component. The safety lock mechanism movably passes through the second joint component to selectively engage with the button assembly, so as to lock the button assembly selectively. Therefore, it increases the operating safety. A supporting device for an infant seat is further disclosed.
Patent GB-2517982-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to measuring devices
Inventor: TSIMBOYKAS ALEXANDROS
IPC: G01S17/42
Filed: 2013-09-09
Abstract: A device 10 measures the width of the cavity 12 between two skins 14, 16 of a cavity wall. The device is introduced into the cavity and an optical or acoustic sensor 20 measures the distance between the sensor and one skin 14 of the cavity. A trigger 32 possibly a pressure switch detects the position of the sensor relative to the other skin 16 of the cavity and using a hinged arm 44 that engages with skin 16 the sensor is triggered when the arm is parallel to the skin. The arm rotates forward to a stowed position to allow removal of the device from the cavity. The main body may also be hinged allowing the sensor and trigger to rotate in the cavity. A camera may be fitted whilst a GPS device may be attached allowing the measurement location to be determined; data may be encrypted and transmitted by wired or wireless connection to a portable computing device.
Patent GB-2510685-A (GB)
Title: Measurement of fluid properties
Inventor: ANDERSON VALERIE
IPC: G01N11/14
Filed: 2013-12-10
Abstract: A system and method for measuring physical properties of non-Newtonian fluids, such as fluids containing dispersed solid particles and having a yield stress. A fluid resistance member 2 is moved (by drive unit 5) through the fluid sufficiently slowly that viscous drag on the member is negligible and fluid resistance is due to the yield stress of the fluid. The torque required to maintain the movement of the member through the fluid is measured (from drive 5), and at least one physical property, other than apparent viscosity of the fluid, is determined by employing a known relationship between measured torque and the physical property of interest. The yield stress may be determined and from that the volume fraction of solids. Dynamic sag of the fluid may be measured where a controlled shear region 13 is formed between chamber wall 3 and cylinder 6, the member 2 being positioned beneath the shearing region.
Patent GB-2522902-A (GB)
Title: Comparing a runlength of bits with a variable number
Inventor: BURGESS NEIL
IPC: G06F7/76
Filed: 2014-02-10
Abstract: Apparatus 22 for comparing a number of adjacent bits having a common value and extending from a starting bit position within an input number with a runlength specified by a (N+1)-bit variable number comprises: a mask generator 24 configured to generate a 2(N+1)-bit mask value in dependence upon the variable number; combination circuitry 26 for performing a logical combination operation upon respective bits within the input number starting from the starting bit position and corresponding bits within the mask value to generate a 2(N+1)-bit intermediate value; and result circuitry 28 configured to generate a result indicative of whether or not the number of adjacent bits is less than or equal to the run length in dependence upon a determination if any bits within the intermediate value have a predetermined value. Figure 3 shows one embodiment of such comparison circuitry. The apparatus may operate upon a floating point number to count leading zeroes in the mantissa and compare this with the exponent value to select a shift amount (Figure 4). The starting bit position may be a most significant bit, or a least significant bit.
Patent GB-2524242-A (GB)
Title: Drive system for aircraft landing gear
Inventor: DIDEY ARNAUD
IPC: B64C25/40
Filed: 2014-03-17
Abstract: A drive system for rotating a wheel (11, fig 1) of an aircraft landing gear includes a drive pinion 13 and a motor 15 operable to rotate the drive pinion via a drive path 14. A rotary damper 30 is provided in the drive path between the motor and the drive pinion. A driven gear (12, fig 1) is adapted to be attached to the wheel so as to be capable of rotating the wheel. The drive system has a drive configuration in which the drive pinion is capable of meshing with the driven gear to permit the motor to drive the driven gear via the drive path. One of the drive pinion and the driven gear comprises a roller gear having a series of rollers arranged to form a ring with each roller being rotatable about a roller axis. The other of the drive pinion and the driven gear comprises a sprocket.
Patent GB-2509630-A (GB)
Title: Hearing Dose Management
Inventor: GLOVER RICHARD
IPC: H03G7/00
Filed: 2012-08-30
Abstract: A hearing dose management device has an input (2), an output (6B) for feeding an acoustic transducer (1), and an attenuating device (3) configured to provide a controlled attenuation between the input and the output. The attenuation is dependent on past levels of the output so as to manage a hearing dose delivered by an acoustic transducer (1).
Patent GB-2516758-A (GB)
Title: Head-mountable apparatus and systems
Inventor: RAGHOEBARDAYAL SHARWIN WINESH
IPC: G06F3/01
Filed: 2014-06-11
Abstract: A head mountable display (HMD) 510 has an upward facing camera 520 associated with a wide angle (such as a fisheye) lens 500 arranged to capture images of the environment of the HMD. An indication of yaw is derived from images captured by the upward facing camera 520 at different points in time. The images may be successively captured images. An image warping process may be applied to convert the captured images into a linear image format. The HMD 510 may comprise a processor configured to identify feature points in the different images and to detect the positions in the images of the feature points so as to provide an indication of rotational movement of the HMD between two images.
Patent GB-2528472-A (GB)
Title: Ammunition counter for firearm magazines
Inventor: REMBIASZ MARK ANTHONY
IPC: F41A9/62
Filed: 2014-07-22
Abstract: A firearm magazine 16 is connected via a magazine adaptor 14 and a cable 12 to a controller / display device 10 (see figure 1). The magazine has a magazine follower 22 upon which ammunition (see figure 9 item 38) is located. A base plate 50 and a spring 36 act to bias the magazine follower and hence the ammunition toward the open end of the magazine. The magazine follower has sprung contacts (see figure 10 item 42) which slide along and are in electrical contact with wires 30 and 32 (see figure 3) and further contacts (see figure 4 item 24) on the outside of the magazine which are in contact with the adaptor 14. Wires 30 and 32 are made from copper and a high resistance material respectively. Wires 30, 32, the magazine follower 22 and the controller form an electrical circuit. As bullets leave the magazine the follower rises and alters the length of the high resistance wire 32. This alters the resistance and the voltage of the whole circuit. The controller is calibrated so the circuit voltage is displayed in terms of the number of rounds left in the magazine.
Patent GB-2529197-A (GB)
Title: Loft flooring system
Inventor: CAVE PIERS ST JOHN SPENCER GALLIARD
IPC: E04F15/18
Filed: 2014-08-12
Abstract: A loft flooring system, especially for retrofitting or loft conversion, comprises a plurality of bridging supports 1 each adapted to provide an elevated bridge above, but not necessarily over-lying, joists J1, J2, J3, J4 of an existing loft floor. Each bridging support comprises first and second upright legs or stilts 1a, 1b, each with a head and a foot and a spanning rail or beam 1c therebetween to extend substantially parallel to the axes of the joists J1, J2, J3, J4 and over which flooring boards or panels F are laid. A pair of foot-supporting rails or beams 2 support the feet, with one supporting the foot of the first leg and the other supporting the foot of the second leg, the foot supporting rails lying transversely above the joists J1, J2, J3, J4 to span between them.
Patent GB-2520378-A (GB)
Title: Aircraft engine constant frequency starter/generator
Inventor: HUANG HAO
IPC: H02P9/08
Filed: 2014-08-26
Abstract: A constant frequency starter/generator 55 for an aircraft turbine engine includes: a first inverter/converter 56 electrically connected to a second inverter/converter 60 via a DC link 58; and an electric machine assembly 10 having a synchronous main machine and an exciter, wherein the starter/generator 55 is operable in a starting mode and a generating mode. In a starting mode, the first inverter/converter 56 receives a constant frequency AC input 62 from an external power source. The first inverter/converter 56 converts the AC input 62 to a DC output 68 which is supplied to a DC input 74 of the second inverter/converter 60. The second inverter/converter 60 converts the DC input 74 to an AC output 72 to start the main machine. In a generating mode, the main machine supplies generated AC power via an AC output 86 to an AC input of the second inverter/converter 70. The second inverter/converter 60 converts the AC input 70 to a DC output 76 which is supplied to a DC input 66 of the first inverter/converter 56. The first inverter/converter 56 converts the DC input 66 to a constant frequency AC output 64. In the generating mode, the synchronous main machine is accelerated by supplying an AC supply, via an exciter inverter 40, to the exciter.
Patent GB-2531578-A (GB)
Title: Latch Assembly
Inventor: GORDON CONLON
IPC: B66C13/02
Filed: 2014-10-22
Abstract: Apparatus 301 for attachment to a standard hydraulic A-frame (107 fig. 1) onboard a vessel (101 fig. 1) comprises a housing 302 which allows passage of an umbilical cable 106 or wire rope through a central region and which comprises two pivotable fingers 306 positioned in a directly opposing arrangement on the periphery of the housing 302, each of the pivotable fingers 306 being independently hydraulically driven to an open position by spring-loaded hoseless hydraulic cylinders 303 situated in a directly opposing arrangement on the periphery of the housing 302 perpendicularly to each pivotable finger 306, each pivotable finger 306 also being closed under spring-action, and, once closed, latching onto an umbilical termination socket 501 on the umbilical cable 106 or wire rope which passes through the housing 302, the housing 302 comprising first and second ports 308, 309 for receiving incoming and return hydraulic pressure hoses respectively and also a series of grooves 502, 503 and cross-drillings (902 fig. 9) to provide a direct hydraulic feed from the incoming hydraulic pressure hose to the hydraulic cylinders 303. The umbilical cable 106 or wire rope may be a load bearing steel armoured cable or rope for lowering a tether management system (103 fig. 1) and/or a remotely operated vehicle (104 fig. 1) from the vessel (101 fig. 1).
Patent GB-2522318-A (GB)
Title: Prefixing for an adhesive application with temperature compensation
Inventor: LANGE MARCUS
IPC: B62D29/04
Filed: 2014-11-20
Abstract: A composite motor vehicle body can be formed from first and second body parts 9, 10 from respective first and second materials having different thermal coefficients of expansion by a method including prefixing body parts 9, 10 at one or more prefixing points 11, for example by welding, clinching and/or rivets, and connecting body parts 9, 10 at an adhesive joint (12, Figure 6) by means of adhesive. At least one body part 9, 10 has an area 14 surrounding prefixing points 11 so that at a compressive or tensile force area 14 demonstrates a smaller ratio of compressive or tensile force to linear change than outside area 14, for example by area 14 having a smaller thickness or a recess. Suitably, area 14 absorbs most of the deformation caused by thermal expansion and so provides a reliable joint. In an embodiment, first body part 9 may comprise steel, aluminium or other metal, and second body part 10 may comprise plastic.
Patent GB-2522985-A (GB)
Title: Ultrasonic nebulizer with controlled mis output
Inventor: HAMMER MICHAEL RON
IPC: B05B17/06
Filed: 2014-12-10
Abstract: An ultrasonic nebulizer includes a piezoelectric element 100 that vibrates responsive to a drive signal having an alternating voltage. A nebulizing layer 210 that may be a passive resonator is bonded to a first surface of the piezoelectric element and has an outer surface that transforms a liquid into a mist responsive to vibration of the piezoelectric element. A heat sink pad (300 figure 7) is in thermal contact with a heat sink (400 figure 7) and the passive resonator to dissipate heat from the piezoelectric element. The surface 202 of the passive resonator may be roughened to guide flow of liquid.
Patent GB-2533804-A (GB)
Title: Telephone handset provided with a remedial signal generator
Inventor: WAYNE BUTNER
IPC: H04B1/38
Filed: 2014-12-31
Abstract: Bioprotection apparatus located within a mobile phone handset generates a remedial field to mitigate the potentially harmful effect on humans of radiation emitted by the phone. The apparatus is implemented directly within the phone and is preferably controlled by the phones microprocessor using an algorithm. The algorithm obtains from the phones transceivers information relating to the phones RF communications, such as the communications technology used by the phone (e.g. GSM, 3G or 4G), the type of data being transmitted (e.g. voice or packet data), or/and the power level of transmissions. This information may be used to determine whether a remedial signal is necessary, and the nature of the remedial signal. In the prior art the remedial signal is sometimes referred to as a confusion field.
Patent GB-2533954-A (GB)
Title: Communication methods and apparatuses for downhole logging tools
Inventor: SIMON CHRISTOPHER ASH
IPC: G01V3/34
Filed: 2015-01-08
Abstract: Downhole Logging tool communication apparatus 10, for carrying out a downhole communication method, comprises rotatable and/or longitudinally reciprocable drill pipe 12 including fixed or capable of being fixed in a co-rotative and/or co-reciprocable relationship at an in-use downhole end an in-use downhole logging tool 27. The logging tool includes a movement sensor 33, and the apparatus includes a motor, at a location remote from the logging tool, for causing rotation and/or reciprocation of the drill pipe in a borehole or wellbore 18. The apparatus 10 includes one or more control elements for selectively controlling operation of the motor so as to cause selective rotation and/or reciprocation of the drill pipe which causes movement of the logging tool, when fixed to the drill pipe, in a manner that is detectable by the movement sensor which generates a signal of the logging tool movement sensor that is indicative of rotation and/or longitudinal reciprocation of the downhole logging tool.
Patent GB-2534900-A (GB)
Title: Internal combustion engine having a charge cooling system for a two stage turbocharger
Inventor: CESARE MARIA MEANO
IPC: F02B37/16
Filed: 2015-02-04
Abstract: An internal combustion engine 110 having a two stage turbocharger 900 and a charge cooling system 260 for the two stage turbocharger 900, the two stage turbocharger 900 comprising a high pressure compressor 240 and a low pressure compressor 540 for compressing intake air in a compressed air circuit 950, the charge cooling system 260 being equipped with an interstage cooler 267 fluidically connected to an outlet (544, Fig. 5) of the low pressure compressor 540 and to an inlet (242, Fig. 4) of the high pressure compressor 240, with a high pressure cooler 265 fluidically connected to an outlet (244, Fig. 4) of the high pressure compressor 240 and with a high pressure compressor bypass valve 600 being located downstream of the Interstage cooler 267 in a high pressure bypass duct 920 of the compressed air circuit 950 fluidically connecting an outlet (472) of the interstage cooler (267, Fig. 4), upstream of the high pressure compressor 240, with an inlet (474, Fig. 5) of the high pressure cooler 265, downstream of the high pressure compressor 240. The configuration exhibits an optimised layout allowing for easier routing and packaging of the connecting ducts.