baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2432533-A (GB)
Title: Heart beat measuring device
Inventor: NAKAMURA HISAO
IPC: A61B5/024
Filed: 2006-11-24
Abstract: A heart beat measuring device 1 comprises an upper case 8 of a transmitter case of a heart beat measuring transmitter is provided with a battery 10 containing portion and an openable/closable battery lid 12 for sealing an opening of the battery containing portion in liquid tight seal. A waterproof elastic member 15 is provided between an inner face of the battery lid cover 12 and the upper case 8 of the transmitter case to surround an outer side of an outer periphery of the battery lid 12. This arrangement prevents the battery lid 12 from being deteriorated by sweat of a user- and maintain waterproof performance of an apparatus over a long period of time.
Patent GB-2445381-A (GB)
Title: Plug Guard
Inventor: SULLMAN RUSSELL
IPC: H01R13/447
Filed: 2007-01-08
Abstract: A Plug-Guard device comprises a cover, with an inner and an outer surface, to enclose the plugs and switches on an electrical outlet/socket. The device engages removably (by means of suction cups, clips, clamps or the like) to the front face of the electrical outlet without modifying the plugs or the outlet in any way. The device covers part or all of the electrical outlet/socket when attached to the outlet. Alternative embodiments of this device can reversibly engage/attach with surfaces additional to the front face, e.g. clamps to two or more side-surfaces of the electrical outlet. The device may be provided with a means of removal that is either detachable or integrated, such as recesses 21, 22 or a handle 25. The device may incorporate features that hold or support part of the plug(s) electrical cable, and/or further features that serve to keep the plug(s) affixed/attached to the electrical socket when the device is attached to the electrical outlet, thereby resisting movement of affixed plug(s) when the device is in position.
Patent GB-2449059-A (GB)
Title: Intellegent wearable sign system
Inventor: BARNETT PHILIP JAMES
IPC: G09F21/02
Filed: 2007-02-17
Abstract: A wearable sign system comprising an electronic display screen which is controlled to display images. The displayed images may be dependent upon time and/or location of the system. Image data can be received wirelessly from a remote server or a user can directly manipulate the images on the screen. The system may comprise a plurality of similar signs which can communicate wirelessly with one another. Unlike other mobile or sandwich board type sign ideas, each sign in this system knows where it is in both time and space. Its main strength lies therefore in its time and location sensitivity. This makes possible some previously unavailable applications: For advertising and promotion, it can be activated when the wearer is walking past a particular retail unit for instance to advertise the competition. In exhibition centres the wearer could direct visitors to a particular stand or point of interest or to the next wearer of the system and so on. This would be particularly helpful for crowd marshalling and say for organising people in the aftermath of a disaster or terrorist attack. Likewise the unit can receive and broadcast news bulletins, advertisements and so on. Reports can be produced showing the location and time of activation to enable billing according to usage for advertisers.
Patent GB-2449412-A (GB)
Title: Integrating object detectors for image face detection
Inventor: GROSVENOR DAVID
IPC: G06K9/00
Filed: 2007-03-29
Abstract: The detection of multiple types of object or features in an image by integrating the decision structures of multiple different object detectors into a composite decision structure in which different object evaluations are made dependant on one another. An N-object detector comprises an N-object decision structure incorporating decision substructures of N object detectors A, B, C. Some decision sub-structures have multiple different versions composed of the same classifiers with the classifiers rearranged. Said multiple versions associated with an object detector are arranged in the N-object decision structure so that the order in which the classifiers are evaluated is dependent upon the results of the evaluation of a classifier of another object detector. Each version of the same decision sub-structure produces the same logical behaviour as the other versions. Such an N-object decision structure is generated by generating multiple candidate N-object decision structures and analysing the expected computational cost of these candidates to select one of them. The system may be used in a face detector that is used to determine whether a patch of an image is related to a face.
Patent GB-2437814-A (GB)
Title: Toy vehicle with extendable tongue
Inventor: SWISHER GARY R
IPC: A63H17/00
Filed: 2007-04-16
Abstract: A toy vehicle having an interactive feature, the toy vehicle including a body and at least two wheels rotatably coupled to the body. The toy vehicle further including a tongue actuation mechanism 280 moveably coupled to the body. The tongue actuation mechanism 280 has a tongue 290 having an engagement portion at the distil end thereof, where the tongue actuation mechanism is adapted to enable selective movement of the tongue 290 from a storage position to a capture position. In some embodiments, in the capture position, the tongue 290 extends downwards approaching a ground surface for capture of an object to the engagement portion of the tongue. Also disclosed is a toy including a mouth movable by a user-manipulated actuator (150, figure 1B).
Patent GB-2449870-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for cooking and mashing a starchy vegatable food
Inventor: TIKARE PRINCE
IPC: A47J19/04
Filed: 2007-06-05
Abstract: Apparatus 2 for cooking and mashing a starchy vegetable food such as, for example, yams or potatoes, comprises a first container 4 which is for the food, and in which the food is cooked by steaming under pressure a second container 6 for containing water; an electrically-operated heating element 8 for heating the water in the second container 6 and generating steam for cooking the food in the first container 4, mashing means 10 for mashing the food after it has been steamed an electrically operated motor 12 for operating the masher means 10 and control means 14 for controlling the cooking of the food by the steaming under pressure, and the mashing of the food by the mashing means 10.
Patent GB-2441856-A (GB)
Title: A method of managing ammonia vapour
Inventor: OBERSKI CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B01D53/94
Filed: 2007-08-23
Abstract: A method of managing vapours generated from an ammonia-containing reductant delivery system for an engine of a vehicle is disclosed. During at least a portion of engine-off conditions the method is operable to store ammonia containing vapours generated in the reductant delivery system 73 and, after said storing and during at least a portion of engine operation, the method is operable to purge said stored ammonia into an exhaust 71 of the engine to react in an SCR catalyst in the exhaust flow. The ammonia containing vapours may be stored 230 by a sorbent, a catalyst sorbent including a zeolite, or a charcoal canister. The ammonia containing vapours may be generated in a tank 220 storing liquid reductant e.g. urea.
Patent GB-2453142-A (GB)
Title: Temperature control
Inventor: BEEVER ANDREW
IPC: C09K5/06
Filed: 2007-09-26
Abstract: A system 1 for maintaining the temperature of an internal space 2, e.g. an office at a desired level, has a device 3 made up of a phase change material, e.g. a hydrated salt, which absorbs heat from the air to affect a phase change of the material, thereby cooling the internal space 2, and limiting the temperature above which the space 2 will reach. The device 3 may take the form of a number of pouches of material placed in the ceiling void 7 of the space 2. A fan 8 may be provided to aid in cooling the ceiling void 7 to cool the device 3 at times when the device 3 does not need to operate e.g. during the night.
Patent GB-2453749-A (GB)
Title: Rectal biopsy device
Inventor: MIHSSIN NOAMAN
IPC: A61B10/00
Filed: 2007-10-17
Abstract: Rectal biopsy device comprise an inner shaft 1 having a pair of jaws <B>3, 4</B> at a distal end and an outer sheath slidable <B>13</B> along the inner shaft <B>1.</B> The shaft <B>1</B> may be made of two longitudinal halves fitted together to produce a single shaft <B>1</B>. A handle <B>12</B> maybe fitted to the shaft <B>1</B>. The outer sheath <B>13</B> may have a roughened area or two rings <B>15</B> fitted to a proximal end to allow the operator to slide the sheath <B>13</B> along the shaft <B>1</B>. The sheath <B>13</B> may have a ring <B>17</B> fitted to the distal end thereof to prevent the sheath <B>13</B> splitting. Each jaw <B>3, 4</B> may have a ridge <B>8</B> on the outer surface thereof which serve to tighten the grip of the jaws <B>3, 4</B> on the tissue when the outer sheath <B>13</B> is pushed forward. The whole device may be made from plastics material so that it may be a single-use device.
Patent GB-2454892-A (GB)
Title: Fire Barrier System with heat sensitive locking device
Inventor: GUTHRIE RICHARD
IPC: A62C2/24
Filed: 2007-11-22
Abstract: Mounting means 10, for a rolling fire barrier, comprising a shaft 12 arranged to be located within a rolled barrier member (2, fig.1), a collar member 28 rotatably mounted on said shaft 12 and arranged to support the fire barrier and a selectively operable locking means 27, said locking means being selectively actuable between a disengaged position in which the collar is free to rotate on the shaft and an engaged position activated by heat in which the locking means prevents rotation between the collar and the shaft. A heat frangible retaining member may retain the locking member in the disengaged position; alternatively the locking member may comprise be thermally sensitive and deform under heat such as bi-metallic strip. In use during a fire the collar 28 will rotate and deploy the fire curtain, subsequently due to the increase temperature the locking member activates and prevents further rotation of the fire curtain which may occur should a braking device of the motor fail which might occur if components of the motor melt. The locking device ensures the fire curtain remains taut and no bagging occurs and maintains its sealing function.
Patent GB-2459674-A (GB)
Title: Allocating communication bandwidth in a heterogeneous multicore environment
Inventor: TOWNER DANIEL
IPC: G06F9/45
Filed: 2008-04-29
Abstract: The invention concerns a method of allocating communication resource, i.e. bandwidth, in a heterogeneous multicore programming environment, e.g. such as a picoArray (RTM), comprising a plurality of processors (e.g. physical or virtual) in a plurality of categories having predetermined communication resources of different types for interconnecting the processors. Bandwidth is allocated by: receiving 50 a plurality of software processes (i.e. a set of source files) each process having a connection requirement defined in terms of type of data being transferred and bandwidth and latency of communication; receiving 52 an allocation scheme, in which each of the software processes is allocated to a respective processor; determining 54, 56 a plurality of communication requirements; and for each communication requirement, allocating 58 a communications resource, such that the total allocated communications resource does not exceed the total available bandwidth 62. Each process is compiled 66 into suitable code for the processor class on which is will run.
Patent GB-2461333-A (GB)
Title: Testicle and scrotum lengthener
IPC: A61F5/41
Filed: 2008-06-28
Abstract: A device to lengthen or stretch the testicles and scrotum of a user comprising two rings joined by a single adjustable bar. The testicles and scrotum are lengthened through the application of traction, the minimum force of the traction exerted is 200g and the maximum can be in excess of 1500g. The rings are worn around the scrotum and the bar joining them is adjusted by the wearer to increase or decrease the traction and extension. Different length adjustable bars can be used and the bar does not extend beyond the opposite side of the rings to which it is attached. The rings can be solid and continuous or separated and may or may not be attached to the adjustable bar.
Patent GB-2454969-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for steam treating fodder
Inventor: FILLERY BRIAN GORDON
IPC: A23K1/14
Filed: 2008-09-30
Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for and method of steam treatment of fodder, for example animal fodder which is typically in baled form. The purpose of steam treating is to kill mesophilic and thermophilic mould spores that are either attached to the fodder or detach when disturbed and become airborne. These airborne particles are associated with respiratory problems, infections and allergies to livestock as well as humans. The present invention provides an apparatus for steam treating fodder comprising at least one steam distribution manifold 1, which has a plurality of lances 2a-d adapted to penetrate a bale of fodder 10 so that steam is supplied to the interior volume of the fodder.
Patent GB-2454333-A (GB)
Title: Filtration membrane having plasma-polymerised layer thereon
Inventor: COULSON STEPHEN
IPC: B01D39/00
Filed: 2008-10-28
Abstract: A method for maintaining the pore size of a reusable filtration membrane, e.g. of polyethylene, the method comprising exposing the filtration membrane to a plasma comprising a hydrocarbon or fluorocarbon monomer (e.g. 1H,1H,2H,2H-heptadecafluorodecyl acrylate) so as to form a polymeric layer on the surface thereof. The treatment allows the filtration membrane to withstand washing procedures, in particular caustic washing. Thus reusable filtration membranes treated in this way and their use, form a further aspect of the disclosure.
Patent GB-2465375-A (GB)
Title: Shear with variable stroke cutting
Inventor: CLARK MICHAEL TREVOR
IPC: B23D15/12
Filed: 2008-11-14
Abstract: Rolling cut metal shearing apparatus is described in which the starting and, or end position of a shear blade is varied according to the width, position and thickness of material to be cut, thereby optimising the stroke of the blade for the material dimensions. This provides for shorter cutting times, reduced volumes of hydraulic fluid and increased throughput.
Patent GB-2465796-A (GB)
Title: Metformin for the therapeutic use of conditions with raised serum amyloid A levels
Inventor: TAN BEE KANG
IPC: A61K31/155
Filed: 2008-12-01
Abstract: Metformin may be used in the treatment of diseases or condiitons with raised serum amyloid A levels, in particular secondary amyloidosis and associated diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Reiter's syndrome, ankylosing spondylitis, Sjogren's syndrome, osteomyelitis, tuberculosis). Metformin may be used in conjunction with a 2ndcompound (e.g. an aldose reductase inhibitor, a glycogen phosphorylase inhibitor and other compounds as per claim 2).
Patent GB-2457347-A (GB)
Title: Fungicidal compositions
Inventor: WALTER HARALD
IPC: A01N43/56
Filed: 2008-12-15
Abstract: A method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on useful plants or on propagation material thereof, which comprises applying to the useful plants, the locus thereof or propagation material thereof a combination of components A) and B) in a synergistically effective amount, wherein component A) is a compound of formula I <EMI ID=1.1 HE=34 WI=73 LX=718 LY=965 TI=CF> wherein <DL TSIZE=3 COMPACT=COMPACT> <DT>R<DD>is CF2H or Cr3; <DT>Z1<DD>is halogen; <DT>Z2<DD>is halogen; and <DT>Y<DD>is hydrogen or halogen; and agronomically acceptable salts/isomers/enantiomers/tautomers/N-oxides of those compounds; and component B) is a compound selected from compounds known for their fungicidal and/or insecticidal activity, is particularly effective in controlling or preventing fungal diseases of useful plants. </DL>
Patent GB-2457784-A (GB)
Title: Pumping systems
Inventor: WILSON STEVEN S
IPC: E21B43/01
Filed: 2009-01-27
Abstract: A subsea, seawater injection system 10, positionable on a seabed 12 for connection to a subterranean well 16 includes a frame 18, an electrical submersible pump (ESP) 20 positioned in the frame 18 so as to be oriented substantially parallel to the seabed 12 when positioned thereon, and a filter 22 operationally positioned between a source water intake 24 and the ESP 20.
Patent GB-2458370-A (GB)
Title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging System
Inventor: HOLLIS TIMOTHY JAMES
IPC: G01R33/3815
Filed: 2009-03-12
Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging system includes at least two cryostats (104 and 106) each cryostat having a portion of a superconducting coil (102). Force balancing (314 and 316) between the sections (304 and 306) through the use of bucking coils (302, 312). A more efficient superconducting coil geometry is used to avoid trapping gradient coil between the crysostats.
Patent GB-2455470-A (GB)
Title: Compressor system and frame
Inventor: KABIR OMAR M
IPC: F04B39/12
Filed: 2007-10-02
Abstract: A reciprocating compressor is provided. In one embodiment, the reciprocating compressor includes a frame having a central body and a crosshead guide extending from the central body. The compressor may also include a crosshead disposed within the crosshead guide and coupled to a crankshaft disposed within the central body of the frame. Additionally, the compressor may include at least one support structure extending from the crosshead guide to the central body, comprising an oblique support structure formed at an angle with respect to the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the crosshead. Other embodiments of compression systems, devices, and frames of such systems are also provided.
Patent GB-2470415-A (GB)
Title: A sterilisation and decontamination device
Inventor: DUNKLEY PETER
IPC: A61L2/20
Filed: 2009-05-22
Abstract: A sterilisation and decontamination device comprises a main body 10 and a detachable control panel 12. The main body comprises; a discharge outlet 16, a humidifier unit, an ozone discharge unit and a controller for controlling the humidifier and ozone discharge units. The detachable control panel includes a user interface for remote control of the controller. The unit may also contain a hydrocarbon discharge unit and a catalyst. The body may contain temporary attachment means for the control panel, and may include electrical connections. The control panel may be in the form of a lectern. The user interface may be in the form of a touch screen. The controller may interact with the user interface wirelessly.
Patent GB-2472114-A (GB)
Title: Switched power regulator having estimated error signal
Inventor: NOTMAN ANDREW
IPC: H02M1/00
Filed: 2009-10-27
Abstract: A regulator circuit 400 comprises an input for receiving an input voltage VINand an output stage configured to switch between the input voltage and a reference voltage 414 to generate an output voltage VOUTin dependence on a modulated signal. A controller 600 is configured to receive an error signal VERRORon a control input and to provide a modulated signal to the output stage. A error amplifier 411 provides the error signal to the controller in dependence on the output voltage. Presetting circuitry 418 is configured to estimate the error signal in dependence on at least the input voltage and for presetting the control input with the estimated error signal.
Patent GB-902421-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to methods and apparatus for cutting shapes
IPC: B23Q35/128
Filed: 1960-03-22
Abstract: 902,421. Cutting by fusion. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION. March 22, 1960 [March 30, 1959], No. 10088/60. Class 83 (4). [Also in Group XXXVIII] A copy-cutting machine comprises a tracer 16 foi sensing the profile of a pattern P and steering a cutting torch &c. B over the work, and means 8, 13 for moving the tracer over the template synchronously with movements of the torch B and in response to electrical signals derived from movements of the torch. The tracer is mounted or a compound slide-rest 10, 14 and the torch B on a similar rest 1, 4. A stylus or (as shown) a photo-cell tracer 16 points the direction of travel and a sine-cosine generator 17 signals the direction to a coordinate drive control 3 which regulates the speed and direction of motors 2, 5 for driving the slides 1, 4. The motors 2, 5 are mounted on the slides 1, 4 respectively, and drive pinions engaging racks 12 on the slide 1 and the bed 23. The resultant cutting speed may be pre-set. Synchronous generators 6, 11 on the slides 1, 4 and having pinions engaging racks 7, 12 on slide 1 and the bed 23, are connected to synchronous motors 8, 13 on the tracer-Slides 10, 14 and having pinions engaging racks 9, 15 on the tracer-bed 24 and slide 10 respectively, for moving the tracer. The ratio of cutter to tracer movement may be varied by gear-shift mechanism, change-gears or screw mechanism between slides 1, 4 and generators 6, 11 and/or between slides 10, 14 and motors 8, 13. A kerf adjusting device ensures that the tracer-path is laterally offset from the template-profile.
Patent GB-1032147-A (GB)
Title: Grinding apparatus
IPC: B24B21/12
Filed: 1965-03-10
Abstract: 1,032,147. Grinding. CARBORUNDUM CO. March 10, 1965 [March 13, 1964], No. 10115/65. Heading B3D. A grinding apparatus comprises a grinding- head 10 having a driven abrasive surface 12, a work-table 15 spaced beneath the head to support workpieces 16 for treatment by the abrasive surface, an elevator mechanism 23 . . . 26 for adjusting the relative vertical positions between the work-table and abrasive surface, a roller 33 for sensing the vertical position of the upper surface of a workpiece on the work-table, and control means operatively connected to the elevator mechanism and responsive to the sensing means to adjust the relative vertical distance between the work-table and abrasive surface to effect removal of material by the abrasive surface from the upper surface of the workpiece down to a fixed level below the upper surface thereof. The abrasive surface is in the form of a belt 12 driven by a motor 11 over pulleys 13, 14, and the work-table 15 has a pair of rollers 21, at least one of which is driven, around which is entrained a rubber-like belt 22 for carrying the workpieces 16 past the abrasive belt. The work-table 15 is vertically adjustable by the elevator mechanism which has a pair of screw jacks 23 which are driven through gearboxes 25 and a shaft 26 from a reversible motor 24 under the control of an elevator control circuit 30 consisting of a plurality of electrical relays and a time delay device operated by three microswitches in a thickness gauge 31 associated with the sensing roller 33. The roller is carried at the lower end of a feeler member 32, Fig. 2 (not shown), which is vertically slidable in a bracket 54 mounted on the grinding head and carries a plate 58 having three adjustable actuating members 61, 62, 63 co-operating with the microswitches 67, 68, 69, the actuator 61 having a micrometer adjustment assembly 73. In operation, the work-table is raised by the drive mechanism to its upper position. When a workpiece engages the sensing roller 33, the switch 68 is actuated to cause the drive mechanism to lower the work-table. At a lower position, the switch 69 reverse the motor 24 to effect raising of the work-table until the switch 67 is actuated to stop further movement of the table. The time delay device acts to prevent further raising or lowering of the table for a time sufficient to permit the workpiece to pass the roller 33.