baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2388330-A (GB)
Title: Digital burette and method for displaying the dose volume in said digital burette
Inventor: BIGUS HANS-JUERGEN
IPC: B01L3/02
Filed: 2002-01-10
Abstract: The invention relates to a digital burette, having a manual drive for suctioning and applying an adjustable dose volume, a gear unit connected downstream and a digital display device controlled by said unit for setting the dose volume. The control comprises an incremental encoder functionally connected to the gear unit, at least one sensor for detecting the signals produced by the incremental encoder and a processor connected to the sensor and the display device for calculating the dose volume corresponding to the number of signals. A sector disk with two groups of sectors of different magnetic field strength that are alternately arranged in the direction of rotation of the sector disk is especially provided as incremental encoder. A sensor detects the number of revolutions of the sector disk. In order to save energy, power supply of the burette is ensured by a solar cell or two spaced sensors for detecting the number of revolutions of the sector disk are provided to reduce the clock frequency of the processor with the same measuring accuracy. The invention also relates to a method for displaying the dose volume in said digital burette.
Patent GB-2405988-A (GB)
Title: Audio/Video player providing restorable, impaired A/V material
Inventor: BRENNAN MARTIN JOHN
IPC: H04N9/804
Filed: 2003-09-12
Abstract: An audio/video material player (78) is provided, comprising a memory device (12), a data processor (80) and data input means (82), the memory device (12) having a read-only portion (120) and a read/write portion (122), the read-only portion having stored in it identification data and the read/write portion having stored in it an impaired version of audio/video material into which a reversible impairment has been introduced using impairment introduction data derived from the identification data and from authorisation data, the player (78) being operable, in the absence of authorisation data, to play the impaired version of the audio/video material, and the data processor (80) being operable to receive authorisation data from the data input means (82), to derive impairment removal data from the identification data and the authorisation data, and to use the impairment removal data to reverse the reversible impairment of the audio/video material to enable the player (78) to play a restored version of the audio/video material.
Patent GB-2406818-A (GB)
Title: Welding head assembly
Inventor: WALKER MARK IAN
IPC: B23K9/173
Filed: 2003-10-08
Abstract: A welding head assembly (12) comprises first and second welding heads (19A, 19B) . The assembly (12) also includes carrying means (21) for carrying the welding heads 19A, 19B in substantially fixed relation to each other. A weld deposition apparatus (10) is also disclosed which comprises first and second welding heads (19A, 19B) . Preferably, the apparatus (10) further includes means (22A, 22B) for feeding a weld material (24A, 24B) to each head (19A, 19B). The weld material can be deposited from each head (19A, 19B) onto a substrate arrangement (31) . More than two welding heads may be provided if necessary. The welding heads (19A, 19B) are preferably attached to a pivoting arm assembly (18), but may also be fixed in position. The substrate arragement (31) may be supported on a turntable (34) which can rotate and pivot about 3 axes.
Patent GB-2406923-A (GB)
Title: Computer implemented trading system
Inventor: TAYLOR IAN
IPC: G06Q40/00
Filed: 2003-10-09
Abstract: A computer implemented trading system is described comprising a plurality of buy computers (1,2) connected via a communications network (3) to a plurality of seller computers (4,5), a plurality of public exchange computers (6,7) and a trading platform computer (8). The trading platform computer (8) is arranged to receive order data from the buy computers (1,2) and the seller computers (4,5). An order processing system (14) provided on the trading platform computer (8) processes the received data to generate output data indicative of the orders received by the order processing system (14) but which is processed so as to obscure the detail of received orders. The generated data is then dispatched back to the buyer computers (1,2) and seller computers (4,5) where it is displayed as part of a user interface. By generating data indicative of the content of received orders but which obscures the detail of those orders, users are provided with information about the likelihood of an order entered into the order processing system (14) being matched but are prevented from using the received data to manipulate order prices.
Patent GB-2391285-A (GB)
Title: Extendable device
Inventor: KAUHANIEMI ILPO
IPC: H05K5/02
Filed: 2002-04-25
Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical structure of an extendable electrical device comprising a body part (300) and a sleeve-like grip part (301). The smooth longitudinal movement between a retracted and extended position is effected by a clockspring in a spring barrel (302). A belt is wrapped around the barrel, and a slide part (306) is attached to the free end of the belt. When the device is retracted, the slide part with the belt slides along a longitudinal groove (304) made on at least one side of the body part until the slide part is interlocked. In response to pushing a releasing element, the interlocking is released, whereupon the belt is wrapped around the barrel and the body part slides smoothly to extended position.
Patent GB-2393067-A (GB)
Title: Locking arrangement for a subscriber terminal device
Inventor: PUHARINEN MARKO
IPC: H04M1/02
Filed: 2002-07-02
Abstract: The present invention relates to a locking arrangement for a terminal device of a telecommunication system. To improve the operating reliability of the terminal device, the attachment and locking of the structural elements changeable by the user to the rest of the device structure is improved by a locking device which consists of a solid piece (100) to be fitted into the terminal device in the different places of the frame part of which one has formed separate spring-like locking elements, each of which functions as a locking device of some structural element of this kind of the terminal device. The first spring-like locking element (20) may e.g. be adapted to lock the accumulator of the terminal device to the accumulator space reserved for it, and the second locking element (40) to lock the smart card of the terminal device to the space reserved for it in the terminal device. In the same locking piece there may also be locking elements (30, 31) for locking the accumulator cover in place.
Patent GB-2403368-A (GB)
Title: Replaceable light valves in projector
Inventor: SHIRAISHI MIKIO
IPC: G02B27/18
Filed: 2004-03-22
Abstract: A projection type image display device of superior reliability, repairability and maintainability is provided. Support members 331 disposed between liquid crystal panels and a prism are made of a thermoplastic polymer material, and the liquid crystal panels and the prism are fixed to each other by heat-fusion 500 of the support members. When it is necessary to remove a faulty part the fused portion of the support member can be removed, thereby permitting the expensive liquid crystal panel to be taken out and re-utilized without any damage to it.
Patent GB-2413449-A (GB)
Title: Vehicular based forward scanning device for collision avoidance
Inventor: SIM NEIL
IPC: G01S17/931
Filed: 2004-04-23
Abstract: A vehicular based forward scanning device is disclosed for alerting a driver of a vehicle when an obstacle enters a predetermined detection zone 1 in front of the vehicle. The detection zone 1 is an area of variable size having a fixed width and a variable length calculated based on vehicle speed and steering angle. The detection zone 1 may be further modified according to direction of motion, weather conditions, gradient of the vehicle's path and weight of the vehicle's load. The arrangement may further provide line of sight communications enabling transfer of data, messages and warnings between vehicles equipped with the system. The scanning device may be a radar or lidar device.
Patent GB-2403549-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic resonance diffusion imaging with eddy-current compensation
Inventor: ROSE STEPHEN EDWARD
IPC: G01R33/563
Filed: 2004-04-29
Abstract: A method for eddy current compensated diffusion imaging using magnetic resonance is used to obtain a spin echo signal in a readout time window by excitation of a nuclear resonance signal using a first radio-frequency pulse and by refocusing that signal using at least one second radio-frequency pulse and a third radio-frequency pulse. Gradients fields are applied in a gradient field direction field having a strength and being activated by gradient pulses between each of said radio-frequency pulses and prior to said readout window, said gradient pulses having a polarity which is alternated between successive gradient pulses, with a totality of said gradient pulses having a gradient time integral of zero between a time of said excitation and the center of kx or k-space. At least two of said gradient pulses have differing gradient time integrals. The gradient direction is then changed and the previous steps repeated to evenly distribute gradient direction vectors over a sphere. An eddy current compensated and optimized imaging sequence is thereby produced which achieves improved imaging through optimization of signal to noise ratios of the detected signal while avoiding distortions in imaging due to magnetic fields associated with eddy currents.
Patent GB-2416750-A (GB)
Title: Encapsulation of liquids
Inventor: KESSEL STEPHEN
IPC: B65B9/04
Filed: 2004-08-02
Abstract: A liquid filling apparatus for filling capsules of the type formed by joining two films carried on cylindrical surfaces of respective drums (14, 16, fig 2) that are arranged in parallel to define a nip is characterised by two members 152 having an arcuate tapering cross-section so as to be positionable in such a nip defined by the two drums wherein each of the two members has opposed arcuate surfaces 154 that, in use, face the cylindrical surfaces of the respective drums and the arcuate surfaces are provided with apertures 166 through which, in use, a pressurised gas is emitted to provide a gas barrier to prevent a filling liquid supplied into the nip between said members from escaping past the arcuate surfaces.
Patent GB-2417053-A (GB)
Title: A turbine comprising baffles situated between turbine blades and guide vanes
Inventor: TAYLOR MARK DAVID
IPC: F01D11/08
Filed: 2004-08-11
Abstract: A turbine comprises an annular array of nozzle guide vanes 34 and an annular array of turbine blades (24, fig 2) mounted within a casing. An array of radially extending protrusions, eg baffles plates 60, are positioned axially upstream of the guide vanes 34 and protruding inwardly from an inner casing wall 12 so as to mix a tangential momentum component of an overtip leakage fluid flow before it reaches the array of nozzle guide vanes 34. The baffle plates 60 may be positioned in a recess (62, fig 8) which also houses tips of the turbine blades (24). Baffle plates 60 protrude the same distance as a gap between the turbine blade tips and the inner casing wall 12.
Patent GB-2407364-A (GB)
Title: Using an electrically operated valve for selecting between backhoe or excavator patterns for control levers of a work machine
Inventor: MEYERES RIAN SCOT
IPC: E02F9/20
Filed: 2004-09-02
Abstract: A control pattern selection arrangement for two control joysticks or levers 34,36 hydraulically connected to boom and crowd hydraulic cylinders of a backhoe (fig 1) has an electrically operated valve 220 operated by an electric control switch 39 in the cab (fig 2). The levers 34,36 each operate four two-position pilot valves 40,42 for directional control spools 208,212. Changing the switch state actuates the valve 220 to modify the hydraulic connections to reverse the correspondence between the control levers and the boom and crowd functions for selecting a backhoe pattern or an excavator pattern. The valve 220 can include two two-position four way solenoid valves 260,262.
Patent GB-2419872-A (GB)
Title: Vertical crush resistant packaging
Inventor: FODEN ROY
IPC: B65D5/54
Filed: 2004-11-08
Abstract: A tubular structure 30 for a case constructed from foldable sheet material, is formed by folding a blank and overlapping and securing its opposed ends 14a, 14b so that the overlap 18 is present towards the centre of a vertical panel of the erected case in use. The additional material at the overlap improves the vertical crushing resistance of the case and may compensate for lines of weakness 38a, 38b, 38c, 38d, 38e bounding a tear-out portion used to convert the case from a transit to a display mode, or other weakenings. As shown, the overlap 18 is in a shorter vertical panel and confronting regions of the composite inner end closure flaps 28a, 28b, 32a, 32b have interlocking wavy edges 34a, 34b. The parts of these inner composite flaps lie co- planar in their end closures. In an alternative embodiment (Fig. 7), the overlap is provided in a longer vertical panel and extends into the adjacent composite end closure flaps.
Patent GB-2420736-A (GB)
Title: Support clamp
Inventor: WHITEHOUSE ALAN JAMES
IPC: B25B11/00
Filed: 2004-12-02
Abstract: A support clamp for clamping an object such as a door comprises a wedge member 40, a support means 90, and a base 10 arranged to support both the wedge member 40 and the support means 90. The wedge member 40 has a first clamping surface (62, fig. 8) and a wedge surface (78, fig. 8) inclined at a wedge angle, whilst the support means 90 provides a second clamping surface (104, fig. 5). The base 10 includes a recess (18, fig. 1) with a wedge guide wall (24, fig. 2) inclined at the wedge angle to the second clamping surface. A planar object may be clamped between the two clamping surfaces by applying a force in direction C to slide the wedge member 40 along the guide wall (24, fig. 2).
Patent GB-2415802-A (GB)
Title: Portable all-in-one digital data storage converter
Inventor: KUANG-HAN LEE
IPC: G06F13/12
Filed: 2004-12-30
Abstract: A portable all-in-one digital data converter includes a power circuit, a micro processing unit (MCU), a card reading chip, a USB connector and a memory card slot. Without requiring a computer as a media, the portable all-in-one digital data converter allows digital data exchange and storage between various storage media as desired.
Patent GB-2409945-A (GB)
Title: Camera focussing arrangement with inclined image sensor
Inventor: ABE NOBUAKI
IPC: G02B27/64
Filed: 2005-01-07
Abstract: An electronic apparatus (10) with an imaging device has a photographing optical system (12) that forms an object image on a photo-receiving area of an image pick-up device (14) which generates image-pixel signals from the object image formed on the photo-receiving area. The photo-receiving area is inclined by a given angle relative to a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the photographing optical system. The electronic apparatus has an extracting processor (22) that extracts a focused-image from the object image as focused-image data on the basis of the image-pixel signals, a compressing processor (30) that records the focused-image data in a memory (32), and a driver (26) that displays the focused-image on a display (28) in accordance with the focused-image data.
Patent GB-2406908-A (GB)
Title: Classifying cells based on information contained in cell images
Inventor: VAISBERG EUGENI A
IPC: G06T7/60
Filed: 2001-09-07
Abstract: Image analysis methods analyze images of cells and place the cells in particular cell cycle phases based upon certain features extracted from the images. The methods can also quantify the total amount of DNA in a cell based on specific features such as fluorescence intensity from fluorescent molecules that bind to DNA. Further, the methods can characterize a cell as mitotic or interphase based on chosen parameters such as the variance in intensity observed in a cell image and/or the size of a region containing DNA. In one example, image analysis methods can classify the cell into one of the following five phases: G1, S, G2, telophase, and an early stage mitotic phase comprised of prophase, metaphase, and anaphase.
Patent GB-2412877-A (GB)
Title: Measuring device for measurement of two-way respiratory flows
Inventor: GERDER HENNING
IPC: G01F1/40
Filed: 2005-03-22
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the measurement of the volume flow or other material properties of a gas whose direction of flow can reverse. The arrangement comprises a specially designed Y-piece 2, which is used for branching into direction dependant flow paths. The Y-piece 2 comprises a chamber 4 which run two parallel flow paths 6,7 of different flow directions, separated by a partition wall 5. A sensor or pressure measuring instrument 10 measures volume flow within the chamber 4. The device is designed to reduce dead space and preferably used in mechanical ventilation.
Patent GB-2419629-A (GB)
Title: Roofing rivet positioning device
Inventor: CAIN FRANCIS
IPC: E04F21/18
Filed: 2005-10-25
Abstract: A roof rivet positioning device allows accurate positioning of a roofing rivet so as to meet with an aperture on a leading edge of a roofing tile to be fixed on a roof structure. The device comprises a first element <B>1</B> having a guide means <B>6</B> arranged to abut with a fixed roof structure and permitting sliding movement of the device in a plane parallel to the fixed roof structure. A second element <B>2</B> is slidably engaged with the first element <B>1</B> for movement perpendicular to that of the first element <B>1</B>. The second element <B>2</B> has rivet retaining means <B>3</B> for releasably retaining a roofing rivet. The first <B>1</B> and second <B>2</B> elements may each comprise substantially rectangular plates having a long axis and a short axis. The long axes of the first and second elements may be aligned. The guide means <B>6</B> may be an angle bar having an elongate axis perpendicular to that of the first element <B>1</B>. The first element <B>1</B> may have at least one slotted aperture <B>7</B> which is engaged by a threaded insert on the second element, a fastening device <B>4</B> may engage the threaded insert to releasably fix the first <B>1</B> and second <B>2</B> elements relative to each other. The rivet retaining means may comprise a notch <B>3</B> on each long side of the second element <B>2</B> corresponding to a recess <B>5</B> on each long side of the first element <B>1</B>.
Patent GB-2432117-A (GB)
Title: Sheet material for use in the treatment of hair
Inventor: CHEUNG YUEN PONG
IPC: A45D7/04
Filed: 2005-11-11
Abstract: Sheet material for use in the treatment of hair comprises a sheet of material 2 having an upper end and a lower end, the upper end in use being releasably adhered to the roots of the hair of the person having their hair treated adjacent to the roots of the hair, the upper end of the sheet being further provided with at least one loop 3. The two layers forming the loop are sealed together, preferably by a heat seal 4. In use, the sheet is adhered to the roots of hair by a strip 5 of adhesive material. In use, a hair stylist may insert the tail or handle of the comb into the loop to assist in correctly placing the sheet material.
Patent GB-2421325-A (GB)
Title: Setting a thread to a wait state using a wait instruction
Inventor: AINGARAN KATHIRGAMAR
IPC: G06F9/30
Filed: 2005-11-10
Abstract: A multi-thread processor includes a scheduler 216 to schedule thread execution. The scheduler includes a thread state register 218 and wait mask 220 which it uses to determine if any given thread is in a wait state. The wait states can include a halt state and an idle state. Threads enter the halt or idle state following the processing of a halt instruction or an idle instruction by the thread itself in the pipeline. A halted or idling thread can return to an active state for processing data when a resume instruction is processed. The wait state can be initiated in response to one of the temperature of the processor, the power consumption or the error rate of the thread. Initializing the processor involves placing a selected thread in a wait state whilst the operations of the processor are initialized.
Patent GB-2433509-A (GB)
Title: Arylamine polymer
Inventor: STEUDEL ANNETTE
IPC: C08L79/02
Filed: 2005-12-22
Abstract: A semiconductive polymer comprising a first repeat unit in the polymer backbone comprising general formula 1: <EMI ID=1.1 HE=21 WI=112 LX=491 LY=701 TI=CF> <PC>where a= 1 or 2; b= 0 or 1; and c= 0,1 or 2, provided that when c=0 then b=0; Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, Ar4, Ar5, and Ar6 each independently represent an aryl or heteroaryl ring or a fused derivative thereof; characterised in that at least one of Ar1, Ar2, Ar4, and Ar5 is non-conjugating; and provided that (a) when a=1, Ar1 is not linked to Ar2 by a direct bond, (b) when b=1 and c=1, Ar4 is not linked to Ar5 by a direct bond, (c) when b=0 and c=1, Ar2 is not linked to Ar5 by a direct bond, (d) when a=2, the Ar1 groups are not linked by a single bond, and (e) when c=2, the Ar5 groups are not linked by a single bond.
Patent GB-2436181-A (GB)
Title: A call-back call connection system
Inventor: ELWOOD DEAN PAUL
IPC: H04M3/51
Filed: 2006-03-13
Abstract: A call connection system comprising a computer network, a call carrying network, and a call connection controller having available to it a plurality of callee addresses usable on the call carrying network. The controller is connected to the computer network, and is responsive to a request via the computer network from equipment of a potential caller to assign one of the callee addresses of the plurality and to transmit that callee address back to the equipment of the potential caller.
Patent GB-2438661-A (GB)
Title: Recursive filtering of a video image including weighting factors for neighbouring picture elements
Inventor: MITCHELL ARTHUR
IPC: G06T5/20
Filed: 2006-06-02
Abstract: A method of recursive filtering of a video image includes storing an image 20 comprising picture elements (pels). Luminance and chrominance weightings are assigned for weighting neighbouring picture elements to a picture element in a current image 10 and for the stored image 20. A sum of differences is calculated between weighted luminance and chrominance values of a picture element and neighbouring picture elements of a current image and of coresponding (weighted) picture elements of the stored image. The sum of differences is normalised to control sensitivity to motion in the image to obtain a value of a proportional parameter K(x,y) for each picture element. The current image is recursively filtered using the proportional parameter K(x,y) corresponding to each picture element by adding together a proportion K(x,y) of each picture element of the image to a complementary proportion of each corresponding picture element of the previously stored image. Interlaced video images may be processed using this technique by first interpolating luminance and chrominance values of a current field to correlate spatially with pel locations in a field interlaced with the current field.