baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2487302-A (GB)
Title: Dual rotor wind or water turbine with a planetary gearbox
Inventor: JAKUBASZEK MAREK
IPC: F03B13/26
Filed: 2012-01-16
Abstract: A dual rotor arrangement 100 for a wind or water turbine has a planetary gearbox with two inputs 3, 5 and an output 9. One rotor 1 is connected to one of the inputs, which may be the ring gear and the other rotor 8 is connected to the other input, which may be the planet carrier of the epicyclical gear arrangement. A generator is connected to the output, which may be the sun gear via a shaft 11. The rotational speed of the output is determined by the relative rotational speeds of the rotors. Preferably one rotor is located upstream of the other and is of a smaller diameter. One or both of the rotors may have variable pitch blades to control the rotational speed, in some operating conditions the rotors may rotate in the same direction, in other conditions the blades may counter rotate.
Patent GB-2498940-A (GB)
Title: Optimising parameters in a data receiver using data waveform eye height measurements
Inventor: CORDERO CRESPO EUGENIA
IPC: H03G3/30
Filed: 2012-01-31
Abstract: A data receiver comprises a plurality of controllable circuit blocks, each circuit block responsive to a control parameter, and an optimiser 100 to optimise in turn each parameter of the circuit blocks for a period during which the other parameters are held constant. The parameters may include an amount of equalisation applied to an analogue data waveform, a data sampling phase, a sampling reference level and an amount of gain applied to an analogue waveform by an amplifier. The parameter optimisation may be based on measures of an eye height of a data waveform in the receiver. The optimisation process may comprise establishing a plurality of parameter test points having different values, measuring the responses of the receiver (the eye height) in response to the values, comparing the responses and then updating the test points. The process is repeated using the updated test points (see figures 7 and 8).
Patent GB-2486384-A (GB)
Title: Logging driving information using a mobile telecommunications device
Inventor: WRIGHT ANDREW WILLIAM
IPC: G07C5/00
Filed: 2011-12-15
Abstract: A mobile telecommunications device is installed within a vehicle and configured to log driving information associated with the vehicle when driven. The mobile device is programmed to register the start of a driving period during which the mobile device is installed to the vehicle and the vehicle is being driven by a driver. The mobile device is also programmed to process sensor data during the driving period to derive driving information associated with how the vehicle is driven and to store a selection of the driving information to a memory. The sensor data may be from one or more cameras, a positional sensor, acceleration sensors and an audio sensor. The telecommunications device may be able to transmit data or output messages to the user after an event, such as an accident, has been detected. Driving information may also be transferred from temporary memory to permanent memory when an event is detected. The start of a driving period may be automatically triggered when the device senses that it has been installed in a cradle or smart holster in the vehicle through the use of a proximity sensor. The telecommunications device is used instead of single-purpose driving information recorders thus reducing cost.
Patent GB-2498039-A (GB)
Title: Enabling a user to secure and back-up an encryption key
Inventor: TORKKEL JUHA
IPC: G06F21/00
Filed: 2012-11-07
Abstract: Back-up of an encryption key for a client device by encrypting the key with a user secret to produce a user encrypted key on the client device, and a service operator secret to produce the backup encrypted key. The encryption key is then removed. A server is enabled to update the user secret with a new user secret for securing a previous user encrypted key, when the user updates the secret. The new user encrypted key can be used by the client device for encrypting and decrypting data, including data encrypted and decrypted using the previous user encrypted key. Thismay be performed on the client device or a trusted third party or service provider device and updating of the user secret with a new user secret may be performed on a service operator server or system. The user secret may be a password, biometric data, a gesture, fingerpint, facial or voice recognition or plain text.
Patent GB-2508358-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for monitoring a sedimentation parameter
Inventor: DUNN RICHARD JOHN
IPC: G01N15/04
Filed: 2012-11-28
Abstract: A method of measuring a sedimentation parameter of suspensions or precipitants 130 in a fluid sample comprises providing at least one micro-cantilever sensor 110, comprising at least two materials having different coefficients of thermal expansion, a heater 140 and a piezo-resistive sensor 150 integrated therein, pulsing the heater with one or more electrical pulses to induce heat generation in the micro-cantilever, sampling the output of the integrated piezo-resistive sensor to characterise a response of the micro-cantilever during sedimentation in the fluid sample, and determining a value of the sedimentation parameter from the characterised response. There is also provided an apparatus arranged to carry out the method. The sensor may be used for monitoring erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of blood samples for example.
Patent GB-2511047-A (GB)
Title: Providing context in functional testing of web services
Inventor: WURTH EMMANUEL
IPC: G06F11/36
Filed: 2013-02-20
Abstract: Providing context in functional testing of web services by using semantic analysis of web method names to categorise them into predefine categories defining interaction flows on the web and creating a context for a web method according to its category in the form of a sequence of methods providing appropriate contexts for testing the web method. Categorising method names may include receiving a file having a plurality of methods, grouping the methods according to their suffixes. Semantically analysing the prefixes to classify them in one of the predefined categories defining interaction flows on the web may include determining a confidence score for the classifying of each prefix and removing the category with low confidence scores. The methods may be grouped according to their suffixes to optimise a minimal number of groups with the similarity between suffixes of each method being maximal.
Patent GB-2514403-A (GB)
Title: Available channel selection device and method
Inventor: FUTATSUGI YASUNORI
IPC: H04W72/04
Filed: 2013-05-23
Abstract: Disclosed are various methods that enable a device of a second system to select a channel that utilises a frequency of a first system while avoiding harmful interference to the first system, for example in a white space utilisation system. First system channels that are available for use by the second system device are listed in a database that is made available to the second system device. In one embodiment an estimation is made of the strength of the first system signal and an available channel from the database selected based on the estimated signal strength, with the signals with the lowest signal strength being selected first. In an alternative embodiment the channel selection is done by estimating channel gain between a first system transmitter of the second system device and selecting frequency blocks based on the estimated channel gain. In a further embodiment the channel selection is done by estimating interference caused by primary system to the secondary system in different channels and selecting channels based on the estimated levels of interference.
Patent GB-2512956-A (GB)
Title: Methods of manufacturing a polyolefin product and a case
Inventor: RUMSEY IAN
IPC: B32B15/085
Filed: 2013-07-10
Abstract: The manufacturing process involves the steps of: printing an image on a transfer paper; hot pressing a carrier and the transfer paper such that the image is transferred to the carrier; and adhering the carrier to a polyolefin article and/or assembling a case having a panel that includes the carrier. A hot melt adhesive is preferably used to bond the polyolefin to the carrier. The carrier is preferably textile, wood, hardboard or aluminium. The preferred manufacturing process involves cutting or sawing and thermoforming the laminate, and combining it with another cut polyolefin. The transfer printing preferably involves heating to 190-210Â°C and pressing at 4.1-5.5 MPa for 40-60 s. The adhesive laminating preferably involves heating to 90-130Â°C and pressing at 6.2-7.6 MPa for 20-25 s.
Patent GB-2516472-A (GB)
Title: Methods and Apparatuses Relating to the Display of User Interfaces
Inventor: CANNATA GIOVANNI
IPC: G06F3/0488
Filed: 2013-07-24
Abstract: A method includes causing display of at least part of first user interface (e.g. a web browser), the first user interface being zoomable and including items of e.g. content which may be of different types such as text, images or video, responding to a zoom-in command for zooming the first user interface to an enlarged size, by determining if a value associated with the enlarged size is beyond a first threshold value, and if it is determined that the value associated with the enlarged size is beyond the threshold value, causing a transition to displaying at least one of the items in a second user interface (e.g. an ebook reader) that is different from the first user interface. The second interface may be specifically adapted for the provision for particular item content types.
Patent GB-2517197-A (GB)
Title: A buckle assembly with resetting arrangement
Inventor: HARTNELL GRAHAM
IPC: B64D25/10
Filed: 2013-08-15
Abstract: A buckle assembly 1, for use with the harness of an ejection/ejector seat of an aircraft, comprises at least one socket 2 to receive and retain at least one lug 3 therein, an emergency release arrangement 4 operable to release the at least one lug from the socket in response to a predetermined trigger signal and a manually operable resetting arrangement 5, operable to retain the at least one lug re-inserted into the at least one socket, following the triggering of the emergency release arrangement. The emergency release arrangement may comprise a protractor cartridge 15 (for example in arrangement with a water sensor) which may be mounted within a cartridge holder 17, the detonation of the cartridge causing a shuttle member (27, Fig 2) to translate away from the cartridge and to engage with a resetting carriage 21, causing translation of a first part of the assembly away from another and release of the socket from the lug. The resetting arrangement may comprise a reset plate 20, which, when rotated with respect to a first base plate 6 of the assembly, causes a face plate 7 of the assembly to move towards the said base plate.
Patent GB-2517220-A (GB)
Title: Method for HIP can manufacture, and can
Inventor: CLARK GERRY
IPC: B22F3/12
Filed: 2013-08-21
Abstract: A component is made hot isostatic pressing powder 60 in a canister 40 made by investment casting. The canister 40 is made by forming a blank 16 of the component to be made, forming a sacrificial layer 22 on the blank 16 and a sacrificial stem 26 on this layer 22, coating the blank 16 and sacrificial layer 22 with a ceramic layer, curing the ceramic layer 24, replacing the sacrificial layer 22 with molten metal and solidifying this metal to form the canister 40. The component is made by filling the canister 40 with metal powder 60 through a hole 20a which has been formed in the canister 40, settling the powder 60, evacuating gas from the canister 40, sealing the canister 40 and then hot isostatic pressing the canister 40 and powder 60 to form the component from the powder 60. The hole 20a can be formed by a pip 20 projecting from the blank 16 to the ceramic layer 24 and a canister conduit 42 can be welded onto this hole 20a. The blank 16 can be a hollow ceramic.
Patent GB-2519789-A (GB)
Title: Flavoured Insert
Inventor: PENNER AMY
IPC: B65D85/804
Filed: 2013-10-30
Abstract: The present invention relates to a kit for preparing a beverage in a beverage preparation machine. The kit comprises at least one filter pod 1 comprising first 2 and second 3 filter paper sheets. The filter pod contains one or more soluble or extractable beverage ingredients such as roast and ground coffee or milk powder. The kit further comprises a separate porous sheet 4 having a flavouring 5 printed thereon as a pattern and provided with a soluble flavouring ingredient such as, for example, almond ameretto, apple, chocolate, mint, strawberry or vanilla, or a mixture of two or more of the above. Also disclosed is a method for the preparation of a beverage in a beverage preparation machine suing the kit comprising passing an aqueous medium through the at least one filter pod and through a separate porous sheet, wherein the at least one filter pod and the separate porous sheet are arranged in the same brewing chamber.
Patent GB-2505371-A (GB)
Title: DC-DC converter with modular stages
Inventor: GIULIANO DAVID M
IPC: H02M1/00
Filed: 2012-05-04
Abstract: An apparatus for electric power conversion includes a converter having a regulating circuit and switching network. The regulating circuit has magnetic storage elements, and switches connected to the magnetic storage elements and controllable to switch between switching configurations. The regulating circuit maintains an average DC current through a magnetic storage element. The switching network includes charge storage elements connected to switches that are controllable to switch between plural switch configurations. In one configuration, the switches forms an arrangement of charge storage elements in which at least one charge storage element is charged using the magnetic storage element through the network input or output port. In another, the switches form an arrangement of charge storage elements in which an element discharges using the magnetic storage element through one of the input port and output port of the switching network.
Patent GB-2521221-A (GB)
Title: Transmission for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle
Inventor: NATARAJAN VIMAL
IPC: F16H3/097
Filed: 2013-12-16
Abstract: Vehicle transmission 10, possibly six speed manual or automated-manual, having input shaft 12, coaxial output shaft 14, countershaft / layshaft 18, first idler gear 48 rotatable relative to input shaft 12, first coupling element 58 fixed to input shaft 12, second coupling element 52 fixed to first idler gear 48, second idler gear 90 rotatable relative to input shaft 12, third coupling element 92 fixed to second idler gear 90, and shift element 82 movable between first coupling position in which first 58 and second 52 coupling elements are connected, and second coupling position in which first 58 and third 92 coupling elements are rotationally fixed, possibly also synchronising speed of elements, to select first and second gears. First 48 and second 90 idler gears may be mounted respectively on output 14 and input 12 shafts. Transmission 10 may have third idler gear 30 connectable to output shaft 14.
Patent GB-2506305-A (GB)
Title: Guide
Inventor: DOLLIN DIANE HELLEN
IPC: B26B29/06
Filed: 2012-02-16
Abstract: A guide comprising two transparent elongate arms(110,120), each with parallel side edges(111,112,121,122), connected at a right angle to each other at one first end, and each arm having a plurality of a first set of hairlines (115) spaced apart along the length of each arm, the hairlines being parallel to each other and parallel to the side edges of the arm.
Patent GB-2512480-A (GB)
Title: Solid electrolytic capacitor for use in extreme conditions
Inventor: BILER MARTIN
IPC: H01G9/028
Filed: 2014-02-20
Abstract: A capacitor assembly 100 comprising: a capacitor element 120 comprising a sintered porous anode body, a dielectric layer over the anode body, a solid electrolyte layer over the dielectric layer, an anode termination 6 in contact with the anode body and a cathode termination 133 over the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the solid electrolyte comprises a conductive polymer and a hydroxyl-functional non-ionic polymer; and a housing 122 which defines an interior cavity 126 within which the capacitor element 120 is positioned and hermetically sealed, wherein the cavity 126 contains an atmosphere that contains an inert gas. Also disclosed is a method of making the above capacitor assembly 100. The solid electrolyte layer may comprise two separate layers, a conductive polymer layer and a hydroxyl-functional non-ionic polymer layer. The hydroxyl-functional non-ionic polymer may comprise a polyalkylene ether, specifically a polyalkylene glycol. The capacitor assembly is capable of performing under extreme conditions, such as at high temperatures and/or high voltages.
Patent GB-2508785-A (GB)
Title: Assessing social risk due to exposure from linked contacts
Inventor: BHOLA SAURABH
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2012-09-13
Abstract: An approach is provided in which a risk assessment is performed that accesses the risk to a user of an information handling system due to the user's link to a social network contact. Risky action values is received with the values corresponding to the social network contact. A risk level is calculated with the risk level corresponding to one or more of the risky action values. A preventative security action is then performed based on the calculated risk level. In another embodiment, an approach is provided in which the potential risks posed by a user are transmitted to the user's social network contacts. In this approach, potentially risky actions that are performed by the user are detected. Risky action values are identified that correspond to the detected potentially risky actions. The risky action values are then transmitted to the user's social network contacts over a computer network.
Patent GB-2525004-A (GB)
Title: Wearable core-body support belt
Inventor: WILSON CARL
IPC: A61F5/02
Filed: 2014-04-09
Abstract: A wearable core-body support belt 10 is provided for supplementarily supporting a hip region. The support belt comprises a flexible elongate lower-torso member 12 for at least partially encircling a user's waist, a flexible lumbar support element 14 extending superiorly of and in parallel with the lower-torso member 12, and two spaced apart flexible hip support elements 16,18 extending inferiorly of and in parallel with the lower-torso member 12. Each in use hip support element 16 passes through the mid-coronal plane of the user, and a connector 20 interconnects the two ends of the lower-torso member 12.
Patent GB-2515642-A (GB)
Title: Adjustable grille for a vehicle
Inventor: MANEKAR RAHUL
IPC: B60K11/08
Filed: 2014-05-21
Abstract: An adjustable grille 1 for a vehicle, the grille 1 having a frame 2 and a shutter arrangement, comprising at least one shutter member 4, for air to flow through the grille 1, the shutter member(s) 4 being rotatable around a pivot axis (A), and having at least two forefronts 6 & 7 that run mainly parallel to the pivot axis (A) and are non-parallel to each other; where the forefronts 6 & 7 are adjustable to enhance the functionality of the adjustable grille 1. The forefronts 6 & 7 preferably have a multitude of openings 8, and/or light elements, preferably in different colours. The forefronts 6 & 7 preferably have the outer contour of a polygon, preferably a triangle, with an angle of between 60 and 90 degrees.
Patent GB-2517263-A (GB)
Title: Head-mountable apparatus and systems
Inventor: ASHFORTH JEREMY DAVID
IPC: G06F3/01
Filed: 2014-06-11
Abstract: A head mountable display (HMD) in which image generation is controlled at least partially by detected eye position and/or eye orientation and/or head orientation, where an image feature is rendered to be more prominent on the display according to whether or not the user is looking at it and image features generated are menu or information items. The feature is made more prominent when the user is looking at it such that it is enlarged, moved from a peripheral display position, replaced by a larger image feature and/or brought forward in a 3D display space. Other inventions include a HMD in which menu items are displayed, a HMD that displays menu items more prominently if the user is detected to be looking at them and a HMD that displays nested information, where lower level information is shown when the user looks at a higher level of the nested set.
Patent GB-2512225-A (GB)
Title: Enhanced group of pictures (GOP) alignment in media stream variants
Inventor: HALLMARKER OLA
IPC: H04N21/2343
Filed: 2012-11-28
Abstract: A media feed is received and delineated into groups of pictures (GOPs) for processing into output media streams having different quality levels. The media feed needs only to be decoded once. The decoded stream is split along different paths based on resolution, and resized output media data is sent to multiple encoders and fragmenters to generate variants in bit rate and frame rate for each resolution. The generated variants may be maintained as fragments on shared storage. A particular stream corresponding to a particular variant can be reconstructed using the encoded fragments.
Patent GB-2518492-A (GB)
Title: A thrust flow powered vehicle
Inventor: POULTON ROSS WILLIAM
IPC: G05D1/08
Filed: 2014-07-10
Abstract: The present invention provides a thrust flow powered vehicle 100 comprising a first thrust flow expeller 130 for expelling a first thrust flow in a first direction, a second thrust flow expeller 131 for expelling a second thrust flow in a second direction, the second direction being a different direction to the first direction but sharing a plane with the first direction. Also provided is a thrust flow outlet fairing (120, fig. 6) comprising a thrust flow deflector surface 124 arranged at an angle to the plane of the first and second directions, and an outlet portion (128) for providing an output thrust flow, such that, in use, the thrust flow deflector surface deflects at least a portion of both the first and second thrust flows to form the output thrust flow such that the output thrust flow has a component in the plane of the first and second directions, and a component out of that plane. Also provided is a method of operating a thrust flow powered vehicle. The vehicle may be a missile, a jet ski or a space vehicle.
Patent GB-2525454-A (GB)
Title: Construction material
Inventor: DILLON DOMINIC
IPC: C04B18/20
Filed: 2014-07-17
Abstract: A construction material is disclosed, and in particular a construction material comprising waste plastic material. The construction material may be used in a range of applications to replace traditional concrete or cement. The construction material comprises cementitious material and particulate aggregate, the cementitious material being 20-30% by volume of the dry ingredients of the construction material and the particulate aggregate being 70-80% by volume of the dry ingredients of the construction material, and wherein the particulate aggregate comprises 25-100% by volume particles of a plastics material, and the aggregate comprises 10-75% by volume particles having a size of 0.1-2 mm and 25-90% by volume particles having a size of 2-10 mm.