baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2584024-A (GB)
Title: Improved access management to multi-user uplink random resource units by a plurality of BSSs
Inventor: PASCAL VIGER
IPC: H04W74/08
Filed: 2018-03-01
Abstract: A wireless network comprises an access point and stations and utilises a contention scheme to allow the stations to transmit to the access point. A station receives a trigger frame from the access point which reserves a transmission opportunity including a random resource unit RRU that the stations may access using a contention scheme. A station also receives parameters comprising a contention window range. The station contends for access to the transmission opportunity using a contention window value. The contention window value is updated based on the success or failure of a transmission over the RRU. The updated contention window value remains within the contention window range. If the updated contention window value becomes greater than an upper boundary of the contention window value, it is instead set to the value of the upper boundary.
Patent GB-2600908-A (GB)
Title: A ceiling downlight
Inventor: Derek Laycock Birkby
IPC: H01R24/20
Filed: 2020-08-26
Abstract: A ceiling downlight 26 comprising a body 68 and an integral socket 70 for connection to mains electricity wiring 36 via a plug 46 which plugs into the socket. The plug may be pushed into the socket from a side of the body. The downlight may comprise a locating flange 72 and a pair of spring locating clips 74 for locating the downlight in a ceiling aperture, a part of the ceiling surrounding the aperture being sandwiched between the flange and the locating clips. Also claimed is a combination of the ceiling downlight and a first flylead 40 having a first end for connecting to mains electricity wiring and a second end comprising a first plug for plugging into the downlight socket and a second plug 48 for plugging into a socket 52 in a first end of a second flylead 64. The second flylead may have a first end comprising the socket, and a second end comprising a first plug 60 for plugging into a socket 50 of a second downlight and a second plug 62 for plugging into a third flylead 66 which is the same as the second flylead.
Patent GB-2598759-A (GB)
Title: Data entry apparatus and method
Inventor: SAJ MUZAFFAR
IPC: G06F40/274
Filed: 2020-09-11
Abstract: A data entry apparatus for e.g. a smart TV includes a wireless remote-control device which is used to navigate a series of cells displayed on screen and containing possible alphanumeric characters at the nth position of a title of e.g. a movie or TV channel. Instead of displaying all 26 letters of the alphabet, only the possible characters at the nth position of a stored list or dictionary of possible titles are displayed. They are displayed in descending frequency order (most common at the left). The process is repeated (steps S1 to S4) to build up a string of characters in a window until a particular title is selected (YES branch from step S4) by selecting its associated image. The navigational effort required of the user is reduced.
Patent GB-2598778-A (GB)
Title: Fuel storage systems
Inventor: PIERRE JOMAIN
IPC: B64D37/34
Filed: 2020-09-14
Abstract: A fuel storage system 2, suitable for an aircraft, has a fuel tank 21 with a controller 24 determining a target pressure for the tanks ullage space at a given time based on information relating to temperature of liquid fuel inside the tank, and controlling a pressure source 22 to alter the pressure to the target pressure. Also claimed is a method of controlling the flammability of a fuel tank involving controlling ullage pressure to be equal to or greater than a minimum ullage pressure determined using predefined flammability information (fig.1), that pressure being the lowest at which the tank is not flammable when fuel is at a certain temperature. The information relating the temperature of the fuel may be a current value of a parameter indicating fuel temperature; alternatively, historical parameter values may be used to predict a temperature using predefined fuel temperature evolution information. The controller may maintain fuel temperature at a value determined based on information relating to the fuel tanks external environment pressure, which may also be used in the determination of the target pressure.
Patent GB-2599431-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to camping assemblies
Inventor: MAX LAWLESS
IPC: E04H15/54
Filed: 2020-10-01
Abstract: The present invention comprises a camping assembly including an inner tent 4 and an outer tent 6. The camping assembly 100 comprises a concealing member 102 in the form of a concealing shroud or skirt 102 arranged to extend between the inner tent 4 and the outer tent 6 so as to at least partially conceal a gap 8 between the inner tent 4 and the outer tent 6. The assembly 100 further comprises attachment means 104 in the form of hooks 106 and corresponding loops 108, for releasably attaching the concealing member 102 to at least one of the inner tent 4 and the outer tent 6. The concealing member or skirt 102 is arranged to extend from the periphery 24 towards the canopy 10. The skirt 102 is attached to the inner tent 4 adjacent the periphery 24 of the front face 22. The skirt 102 also functions to support the inner tent 4 with respect to the outer tent 6. In particular, the skirt 102 is arranged to suspend part of the inner tent 4 from the outer tent 6 so as to maintain the shape of the inner tent 4. In use, the skirt 102 is tensioned (and kept taut) by weight and/or tension of the inner tent 4. Tension is transmitted from the skirt 102 by the loops 108 and hooks 106 to the attachment region 26 of the outer tent 6. Since the skirt 102 extends continuously along the periphery 24, the skirt 102 helps to distribute evenly the tension resulting from the weight of the inner tent 4. In this way, the skirt 102 has a dual function, i.e. concealing the gap 8 and supporting the inner tent 4.
Patent GB-2597545-A (GB)
Title: A noble gas recovery system
Inventor: ANDREW JAMES SEELEY
IPC: C01B23/00
Filed: 2020-10-09
Abstract: A system comprises a pumping system 208 for pumping respective exhaust gases from each of a plurality of chemical etching process chambers 206 and combining the exhaust gases to provide a combined exhaust gas, and a noble gas recovery system 210 for processing the combined exhaust gas to remove one or more noble gases, e.g. krypton, therefrom. Preferably, the pump system combines a purge gas with the exhaust gases. A vacuum pressure swing adsorption module may separate purge gas from the combined exhaust gas and supply the purge gas to the pump system. The noble gas recovery system may comprise gas chromatography, acid gas removal, a wet scrubber, or a getter. The pumping system preferably comprises a plurality of pumps, each configured to pump exhaust gas from one of the process chambers. A plurality of perfluorocompound (PFC) removal or conversion modules may be coupled to the pump outputs.
Patent GB-2590178-A (GB)
Title: Gate valve, tubing hanger system, and method
Inventor: CHRIS D BARTLETT
IPC: E21B34/04
Filed: 2020-10-28
Abstract: A gate valve 32 comprising: a first valve seat 104 and a second valve seat spaced apart(fig. 6, 102), wherein each of the first valve seat and the second valve seat comprise a flow path formed therethrough; and a gate 106, wherein longitudinal movement of the gate with respect to the first and second valve seats transitions the gate valve between an open position and a closed position; wherein the gate comprises one or more openings 112 formed therein, the one or more openings spanning an area having a dimension in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the gate valve that is shorter than a dimension in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis 218 of the gate valve. The hole may be of various shapes, including ovoid+, crescent, arcuate, irregular, rectangular or maybe configurations of multiple holes, and may be used in a wellbore tubing hanger. A method of operating and a system comprising gate valves are also claimed.
Patent GB-2587751-A (GB)
Title: Geological interpretation with artificial intelligence
Inventor: Yan kai xu
IPC: E21B44/00
Filed: 2019-07-05
Abstract: A method for drilling includes obtaining formation-measurement pairings, training a machine-learning model using the formation-measurement pairings, receiving measurements obtained by a tool positioned in a well formed in a formation, and generating a formation model of at least a portion of the formation using the machine-learning model and the measurements. The formation model represents one or more physical parameters of the formation, one or more structural parameters of the formation, or both.
Patent GB-2594568-A (GB)
Title: Method for post-processing an additively manufactured part
Inventor: JOSEPH CRABTREE
IPC: B33Y40/20
Filed: 2021-03-03
Abstract: A method for post-processing a powder-based additively manufactured (AM) part. The method comprises: providing a powder-based AM part; providing a fluid, wherein the fluid comprises an acetal, acetophenone or an acid; heating the fluid; applying the heated fluid to a surface of the AM part. Preferably, the acetal is formaldehyde dibutyl acetal, or the acid is dichloroacetic acid or sulfuric acid. Preferably, the AM part is made from a polymer comprising polypropylene, or a polyether ether ketone (PEEK) or polyether ketone ketone (PEKK). Preferably, the fluid is heated to a temperature 5⁰C below the melting point of the material of the AM part. Preferably, the application step comprises submerging the AM part in the liquid or condensing fluid vapour onto a surface of the AM part. Preferably, the step of providing the AM part comprises sintering the AM part; typically, wherein the powder-based additive manufacturing method is selective laser sintering or multi-jet fusion. This process can help to improve the surface finish of the AM part, resulting in a less rough (i.e. smoother) surface finish.
Patent GB-2604884-A (GB)
Title: Cable connection
Inventor: JORDAN BUCHANAN
IPC: H01R13/58
Filed: 2021-03-17
Abstract: A dry mate cable connection (40) comprises a data cable (4). The data cable comprises a plurality of electrical conductors (23) and at least one electrically insulating outer layer surrounding each data conductor, whereby the data conductors (23) are electrically insulated from one another. The cable comprises a termination end. The outer layer of each conductor is physically in contact with an outer layer of an adjacent conductor, except at the termination end. The electrical conductors (23) at the termination end are physically separated from one another by an electrically insulating overmoulded cable termination housing (43), over the electrically insulating layer. The cable termination housing may comprise individual extensions, extending, at least partially, over the electrically insulating layer of each physically separated conductor (23) in the termination end, and sealingly engage with an outer surface of the insulating layer of each core. The cable termination housing may comprise a face seal for sealing against a corresponding sealing surface of a data cluster housing in the back end of the plug or receptacle.
Patent GB-2600787-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for video super resolution
Inventor: Hongkai Wen
IPC: H04N19/59
Filed: 2021-03-26
Abstract: Method /apparatus for performing video super resolution, the method comprises steps of: receiving a video comprising a plurality of low resolution frames; and performing, using a machine learning (ML) model, an iterative process to upscale the low resolution frames by alternately: estimating, using the ML model, degradation (downsample) kernels for a group of sequential, temporally consistent low resolution frames; and upscaling, using the ML model, the group of frames using the estimated degradation kernels. Preferably, the ML model includes a kernel estimator and a frame restorer. The restorer may during the final iteration determine feature maps for the LR frames prior to performing upscaling. Both, estimator and restorer comprising a convolution neural network (CNN). The problem of over sharpening or over-smoothed due to kernel mismatch is solved by the current method exploiting kernel estimation.
Patent GB-2609204-A (GB)
Title: Ornamental device
Inventor: MICHAEL ELEAS PHOTIOU
IPC: A63H3/36
Filed: 2021-07-22
Abstract: An ornamental device, such as a doll depicting a person, comprises a body and a head. The head comprises a convex transparent cover and a back 1, the back 1 being separatable from the cover to provide a slot or recess (56, figure 7); wherein the slot or recess is adapted to receive a photograph 16. The head may be substantially spherical.
Patent GB-2594886-A (GB)
Title: Surface cleaning apparatus
Inventor: WAYNE ERNEST CONRAD
IPC: A47L9/16
Filed: 2017-04-10
Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner comprises a main body comprising an upper end having a dirty air inlet, a lower end, a front end and a rear end, the main body housing a suction motor and fan assembly, the suction motor and fan assembly having a suction motor axis of rotation; a cyclone unit 112 comprising a cyclone 160 and a dirt collection chamber 164, the cyclone having a cyclone axis of rotation (484, fig 18), a front end having a cyclone air inlet 180, a longitudinally spaced apart rear end having a cyclone air outlet 184, and a sidewall having an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the cyclone axis of rotation extends between the front end and the rear end of the cyclone and when the cyclone axis is oriented horizontally, the cyclone air inlet is in the upper portion of the sidewall of the cyclone and the dirt collection chamber is underneath the cyclone; and wherein when the hand vacuum cleaner is oriented with the cyclone underneath the upper end, the cyclone axis of rotation is generally horizontal. Also disclosed is a hand vacuum with an air treatment member and a dirty air inlet comprising an inlet passage that extends longitudinally between an inlet end and an outlet end and has a longitudinal passage axis, the outlet end of the inlet passage communicates with the air treatment member air inlet.
Patent GB-2610629-A (GB)
Title: Gesture controller
Inventor: GERARDUS ARNOLDUS VERHOEVEN
IPC: G06F3/0346
Filed: 2021-09-13
Abstract: An apparatus for a wheelchair comprises a gesture controller 40 to detect a gesture performed by a user where the gesture corresponds to manipulation of the controller (A-F, figure 3); a control system having a database associating gestures with single or composite movements of the wheelchair; where the control system is responsive to detection of a given gesture by the controller to reference the database and determine an associated movement for the given gesture, such that the wheelchair can perform the associated movement. Preferably the controller is configured to detect motion with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) making use of an accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope to do so. The composite movements might be turning the wheelchair around, movement in a particular direction, or climbing a kerb. The gestures may be reconfigurable at will by a user, for example through a mobile phone.
Patent GB-2610656-A (GB)
Title: An improved gas turbine engine
Inventor: PAUL DAVIES
IPC: F02C7/32
Filed: 2021-11-03
Abstract: A gas turbine engine for an aircraft comprises a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine, with a first electric machine 210 being rotationally connected to the turbine. The ratio of the maximum power in Watts (W) generated by the first electrical machine to the maximum dry thrust in Newtons (N) of the gas turbine engine is between 2.0 and 10.0. A fan assembly 130 may comprise a fan with a diameter between 0.3m and 1.4m. The fan assembly may have two or more fan stages with a plurality of blades. The first electrical machine may be positioned axially between the fan assembly and the compressor. A second electric machine 220 may be rotationally connected to the fan assembly, the ratio of the maximum power in Watts (W) generated by the second electrical machine to the maximum dry thrust in Newtons (N) of the gas turbine engine is between 4.0 and 19.0. At least one of the first electric machine and second electric machine may have an axial length and a diameter, wherein a ratio of the axial length to the diameter is between 0.5 and 2.0. An associated method of operation is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2615513-A (GB)
Title: Respirator device
Inventor: BRENDAN MCGRATH
IPC: A62B18/00
Filed: 2021-12-13
Abstract: A collar for a powered air purifying respirator, the collar being configured for attachment to a hood element such that in use the collar and hood prohibit external fluids from entering the hood. The collar comprises a collar body in a torus shape, a fluid inlet to which a filter element may be attached, the fluid inlet providing a pathway to a void configured to house an impeller. The collar also provides an internal fluid pathway taking air from the void, and a fluid outlet configured to outlet the air from the void. The collar body may comprise flanges either side of the fluid inlet, extending out beyond the fluid inlet so as to protect any filter element connected to the fluid inlet. The fluid inlet may be positioned at the rear of the collar, with the fluid outlet positioned at the front of the collar, offset from a centre of the collar.
Patent GB-2609518-A (GB)
Title: A method and system for the computational modelling of fire and occupant safety
Inventor: ANDREW LESLIE KELLY
IPC: G08B31/00
Filed: 2022-02-07
Abstract: Arrangement for determining fire safety and firefighter safety information in a building (750,fig.4). A computer processor (500,fig.5) receives first sensory data indicative of the presence or risk of fire 10 at a determined first location within the building (750,fig.4), and secondary sensory data indicative of the presence of one or more emergency responders such as firefighters (not shown) at a determined second location within said building (750,fig.4). The sensory data is received by a transmitting sensor in an appliance 100 and is at least one of a thermal sensor or smoke sensor. The transmitting sensor is also configured to receive a radio signal from a remote device which is worn or carried by the firefighter, such as a smartphone 700 or laptop 701. Algorithms and tools and techniques of machine learning/artificial intelligence are used to construct computer models of the building (750,fig.4) and to predictively model the current and likely future states of the fire in the building (750,fig.4), and the data relating to the first and/or second locations and/or the computer models are applied to models and are outputted. The data may be outputted to the one or more remote devices.
Patent GB-2602732-A (GB)
Title: Foundation system
Inventor: PAUL TAYLOR
IPC: E01C3/00
Filed: 2019-09-27
Abstract: The foundation system is made up of panels 2 for supporting a load bearing surface on underlying ground in use. Each foundation panel has a panel body 4 having a peripheral edge 6, first and second opposing major surfaces spaced by a depth dimension of the panel body, and a plurality of internal walls 52 upstanding in the depth dimension so as to define a plurality of cells 50 within the panel. The panel also comprises a plurality of connection formations 8, 10 provided at the peripheral edge of the panel body configured to engage with connection formations of one or more adjacent panels in use. The cells are provided in a two dimensional array over an area of the panel body, a first plurality of cells in the array are open at the first major surface and closed 54A at the second major surface and a second plurality of cells are open at the second surface and closed 54B at a first surface.
Patent GB-2605509-A (GB)
Title: Configuring a wireless mesh network for locationing
Inventor: EDWARD W GEIGER
IPC: H04W84/18
Filed: 2020-09-24
Abstract: A locationing platform may receive, via a mesh network, a locationing communication associated with a waypoint beacon. The locationing platform may identify an entry node of the locationing communication. The locationing platform may determine a waypoint location associated with the waypoint beacon based on locationing information in the locationing communication. The locationing platform may determine a node location of the entry node based on the waypoint location. The locationing platform may configure, based on the node location, a relay node of the mesh network to forward or drop subsequently received locationing communications that are associated with the waypoint beacon.
Patent GB-2617209-A (GB)
Title: Air spring operation
Inventor: David Ruiz Diez
IPC: B60G17/015
Filed: 2022-05-05
Abstract: Method of operating a valve 210 between a first 204 and a second chamber 206 of a vehicle air spring 200 according to vehicle parameters or driving conditions. A first valve switching mode with a faster valve switching speed may cause more noise than a second, slower, valve switching mode which is quieter. Controller may decide between the first and second valve switching mode based on vehicle noise level threshold caused by vehicle speed, acceleration, road surface roughness, engine rpm, entertainment system volume, or weather condition; or based on dynamic vehicle driving condition such as occurrence and/or magnitude of suspension input from driving surface, rate of acceleration change (jerk), or impact events. If threshold is exceeded, controller may permit the valve to operate in the first, louder, valve switching mode, prioritising valve operating speed; if noise or dynamic driving condition is below threshold, second valve switching mode is used to ensure audible noise level is lower.
Patent GB-2603440-A (GB)
Title: Electric vehicle charging system
Inventor: SIMON WHITE
IPC: H02J7/00
Filed: 2021-07-30
Abstract: An electric vehicle charging system and method of charging an electric vehicle are disclosed. The electric vehicle charging system is formed of a distributed system comprising a central control module housing communication, user authentication and metering devices and a local charging module housing at least two outlet connectors for connecting to an electric vehicle. The method of charging briefly comprises using a cyclical variation in charge between each of two vehicles connected to the local charging module.
Patent GB-2604569-A (GB)
Title: Pulley arrangement and pulley guard for articulating a surgical instrument
Inventor: Ben Robert Chaplin
IPC: A61B34/30
Filed: 2017-06-06
Abstract: A surgical robotic instrument comprises an end effector element 501 connected to a shaft 504 via an articulation 505. The articulation comprises: a first joint 506, driveable by a first pair of driving elements A1, A2, that rotates about a first axis 510; a second joint 507 driveable by a second pair of driving elements B1, B2; a pulley arrangement around which the second pair of driving elements move and a clevis unit 508. The pulley arrangement comprises a first set of pulleys rotatable about the first axis and a second set of pulleys. The second set of pulleys comprises a first pulley rotatable about a second axis, and a second pulley rotatable about a third axis parallel to and offset from the second axis. The clevis unit comprises a base portion 532 and two arms 530, 531 that extend from the base portion and support the pulleys. A first drive element guide 533 is located between the two arms, with one driving element of the first pair of driving elements passing through the first drive element guide. A pulley guard 538 extends from the base portion and between one of the arms and the first drive element guide.