baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2421494-A (GB)
Title: Dosage feed device for additive fluids
Inventor: BIESTER KLAUS
IPC: G05D11/03
Filed: 2004-07-16
Abstract: Metering device (1) in particular for metering an additive (2) in the field of oil exploration with a metering element (4) adjustable by an adjusting means. To improve such a metering device in that already with minimal movement of the adjusting means in a constructive simple way a particular amount of additive is added to raw material and also to quickly interrupt the metering, the metering element (4) comprises a metering gap (5) and a valve means (7) arranged behind the metering gap downstream in fluids moving direction (6).
Patent GB-2439357-A (GB)
Title: RF ICs
Inventor: LLOYD NEIL
IPC: H01L21/762
Filed: 2006-02-23
Abstract: Islands of selectively epitaxially grown (SEG) silicon 34 are formed in openings in an insulating layer 32 formed on a semiconductor substrate 30. Transistors for an RF device are formed in the SEG silicon. Alternatively, a customisable RF IC device is fabricated by forming transistor devices and transistor device isolation regions only. Subsequently, customized circuits may be formed by fabricating additional circuit layers.
Patent GB-2426019-A (GB)
Title: Single trip completion with sand screen and control line
Inventor: PATEL DINESH R
IPC: E21B43/04
Filed: 2003-08-22
Abstract: A well system 200 for deployment in a wellbore comprises a single trip completion 258 having a deployment tubing 218, a sand screen 264 mounted to the deployment tubing, and a lower packer 208 and an upper packer 212 mounted to the deployment tubing. A control line 230 extends through the upper packer and the lower packer into cooperation with the sand screen, to enable running of the single trip completion and the control line into the wellbore in a single trip, so that it is not necessary to form wet connects along control line 230. The sand screen 264 may be expandable, or may alternatively be replaced by a gravel pack system (270, fig 25). Upper and lower completions - along both of which is deployed a control line - together with an expandable sand screen on the lower completion, are run simultaneously as an entire completion into the wellbore in a single trip downhole.
Patent GB-2439397-A (GB)
Title: Telecommunications quiz game played using text messages
Inventor: OSIBODU OLAGOKE
IPC: H04Q7/22
Filed: 2006-06-23
Abstract: Telecommunications game apparatus 2 comprises control database 4 and subscriber terminals 6 remote from and connected to control database 4. The game includes elements of chance, choice, and strategy, with subscribers providing answers via terminals 6, the answers being a choice of two alternatives, e.g. yes and no. The game is played in rounds, the winners of each round being the group of subscribers who chose the least popular answer. The losers of each round (i.e. the larger group of subscribers who chose the most popular answer) are eliminated, and the overall winner of the game is the person who has been in the winning group in each round and is thus the last person remaining in the game. Control database 4 may include details of a prize to be awarded to the winner, and the prize may comprise a business assistance package which may include business advice and/or finance. Terminals 6 may be mobile telephones, with the game played using sms text messages. Terminals 6 may alternatively be personal or lap top computers (not shown), with the game played via the internet, or may be television game show terminals used for playing the game on television (not shown).
Patent GB-2430936-A (GB)
Title: 6,13-Dihydropyrazino[2,3-b:5,6-b']diquinoxaline derivatives for use as dyes in ink jet inks
Inventor: FOSTER CLIVE EDWIN
IPC: C09D11/02
Filed: 2006-09-18
Abstract: A process is provided for printing an image on a substrate which comprises applying to the substrate an ink comprising a compound of formula (1) or a salt thereof: <EMI ID=1.1 HE=35 WI=87 LX=593 LY=701 TI=CF> <PC>wherein: ```R<1> and R<2> are each independently H or a substituent; ```each of X and Y is independently a substituent; and ```a and b are each independently 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. These compounds have particularly good ozone fastness and are suitable for preparing inks which can be ink jet printed.
Patent GB-2429615-A (GB)
Title: Method of improving operational speed of encryption engine
Inventor: GARG ATUL
IPC: H04L9/06
Filed: 2005-03-28
Abstract: In the present method of implementing functioning of an encryption engine, a plurality of logic blocks (LB I - LB 32) are provided, each for running a function (F, G, H, I). Each function is run based on three variables (B, C, D), each of which may have a first or second value. The function is run with the first variable value (B) selected as having its first value, and with the second and third variables (C, D) having their actual values. The function is again run with the first variable value (B) selected as having its second value, and again with the second and third variables (C, D) having their actual values. An actual value of the first variable (B) is determined, and the output of the logic block is determined by the actual value of the first variable (B).
Patent GB-2431565-A (GB)
Title: Protective article of outer clothing
Inventor: BALDWIN ROGER EDWIN
IPC: A41D13/008
Filed: 2005-08-16
Abstract: A protective article of outer-clothing (1,5) characterized in that the article: a) does not enshroud the head of the wearer; b  is not equipped with means for sensing and processing any electrical variations that the wearer's body produces; and c) incorporates an electricity conductive layer (12,14,16,17) which is selected to be of sufficiently low resistance that if, in use, prongs of a so-called stun gun are pressed against the article of clothing or located in proximity to the article and the gun is fired, the conductive layer (12,14,16,17) electrically interferes with the charge applied between the gun's prongs.
Patent GB-2446791-A (GB)
Title: Labelling jig with optional label
Inventor: BRIDLE RICHARD GEORGE
IPC: B65C3/02
Filed: 2007-02-21
Abstract: A labelling jig 1 has first and second means, such as channels 3, capable of accommodating the twisted shut neck of a bag proximate to number of labels (11, fig.3) held on the jig 1, such that the labels can be secured over or around the bag neck. The labels would normally be accommodated in channel 4, and the bag neck engaged in both of the first and second means 3 to present a portion of bag neck across the width of the mouth of the channel next to the labels. The device may make the attachment of labels to bag necks more simple by allowing a user to free an extra hand to apply a label to a bag neck.
Patent GB-2432912-A (GB)
Title: Acoustic telemetry systems and methods with surface noise cancellation
Inventor: GARDNER WALLACE R
IPC: H04H60/31
Filed: 2005-09-14
Abstract: Acoustic telemetry systems and methods with surface noise cancellation. One illustrative embodiment may include an acoustic telemetry system comprising a transmitter (28) configured to generate an acoustic information signal that propagates along a drillstring (8), and a receiver (200) configured to detect an acoustic receive signal from the drillstring and a noise signal from a surface environment. The receiver operates on the acoustic receive signal and the noise signal to produce a modified signal indicative of the acoustic information signal and having a reduced noise content relative to the acoustic receive signal.
Patent GB-2438727-A (GB)
Title: Housing device with removable cover for an electronic apparatus
Inventor: MIURA SHINSUKE
IPC: H05K5/02
Filed: 2007-05-29
Abstract: In a housing device, a first wall portion 10A of a case main body and a second wall portion 20A of a case cover are adjacent to each other with a right angle formed therebetween when the case cover 20 is coupled to the case main body 10. A first hole 11 and a first claw 12 are integrally formed with the first wall portion 10A at a part thereof where the first wall portion 10A is butted to the second wall portion 20A. A second claw 21 and a second hole 22 are integrally formed with the second wall portion 20A at a part thereof where the second wall portion 20A is butted to the first wall portion 10A. The first claw 12 engages with the second hole 22 and the second claw 21 engages with the first hole 11 to hold the case cover securely to the main body. The case cover can however be removed by rotating in the direction OP.
Patent GB-2449856-A (GB)
Title: Power conversion circuit
Inventor: SKINNER ANDREW JOHN
IPC: H02M3/155
Filed: 2007-06-04
Abstract: A power conversion circuit 10 comprises an input 12,14, an output 16,18, an electrical energy storage element 42, having one side connected to the input, and at least two sub-circuits. Each respective sub-circuit is connected in series between the output and the other side of the electrical energy storage element and also includes an inductive device 22,24, a rectifying element 26,28, and a controllable switching element 30,32 connected in circuit to be capable of connecting the inductive device in parallel across the input. The inductive elements of at least two sub-circuits are magnetically coupled together.
Patent GB-2440256-A (GB)
Title: Plasma assisted sputter deposition.
Inventor: WICKRAMANAYAKA SUNIL
IPC: G11B5/851
Filed: 2007-07-16
Abstract: A plasma-assisted sputter deposition system 1 comprising a reactor into which a process gas is introduced to be used for producing plasma and an annular electrode 2 made of a material for sputtering by said plasma. The lower surface of said annular electrode is arranged at an angle or parallel to the surface of a wafer 9 to be deposited with said material. Two or more circular magnets with different diameters 19a, 19b are arranged above the electrode. The magnets are arranged to have alternate polarities facing the electrode so as to generate one or more close loop magnetic flux lines 37 below the electrode. The electrode is connected to an electrical power source 10 and a wafer holder 5 for holding said wafer in a stationary position for film deposition is provided.
Patent GB-2438552-A (GB)
Title: Ethanolic extracts of Everniastrum Cirrhatum for use in the treatment of fungal infections
Inventor: KHANUJA SUMAN PREET SINGH
IPC: A61P31/10
Filed: 2003-03-31
Abstract: Ethanolic extracts of Everniastrum Cirrhatum comprising methyl-I-orcinol carboxylate of formula (1) <EMI ID=1.1 HE=49 WI=42 LX=1002 LY=911 TI=CF> <PC>may be useful for treating pathogenic fungal infections (in humans) that are resistant to polyene and azole antibiotics such as amphotericin B, nystatin, clotrimazole etc. The methyl-B-orcinol is optionally present in a concentration in a range of 10 to 400 pg/ml. The ethanolic extract may subsequently be extracted using hexane and ethyl acetate with the use of these extract for treating pathogenic fungal infections.
Patent GB-2446680-A (GB)
Title: Clothing with integral brassiere
Inventor: LEUNG EUGENE SING-YUE
IPC: A41C3/08
Filed: 2007-09-24
Abstract: An item of clothing includes a clothing body 1 and an enclosed brassiere 2. The brassiere 2 has breast cups 21,22 sewn on the front portion of the clothing body 1 and straps sewn on the back portion of the clothing body 1. The breast cups 21,22 of the brassiere 2 and the front portion of the clothing body 1 are sewn together to integratedly connect the brassiere 2 with the clothing body 1, so there is no relative movement between the brassiere 2 and the clothing body 1 and the straps of the brassiere 2 are sewn on the back portion of the clothing body 1.
Patent GB-2440085-A (GB)
Title: Speaker box and speaker device
Inventor: NAKAMURA TAKESHI
IPC: H04R1/28
Filed: 2006-02-20
Abstract: A speaker box and a speaker device that can be inexpensively produced and having a sound absorption effect. A speaker box (12) of a speaker device (10) has a baffle (14), four intermediate plates (16, 16,...), and a back side plate (18). A speaker installation hole (14a) is formed in the center of the baffle plate (14). Each intermediate plate (16) has a hole (16a). The intermediate plates (16, 16, ...) are superposed on each other with the front and back sides of every other plate reversed so that adjacent holes (16a, 16a) are communicated with each other with their positions displaced from each other. A cavity having a sound absorption effect is formed inside the speaker box (12) by the holes (16a, 16a, ...).
Patent GB-2457464-A (GB)
Title: Use of clathrates in gas storage
Inventor: COOPER ANDREW I
IPC: F17C11/00
Filed: 2008-02-13
Abstract: A gas, for example hydrogen, methane, is enclathrated, and/or dissociated from a clathrate, for example clathrate hydrate, in the presence of an gellable material, for example poly acrylic acid sodium salt. The gellable material support enhances the practical applicability of gas storage by clathrates.
Patent GB-2453612-A (GB)
Title: Hydro-electric down pipe
Inventor: NIGHTINGALE CHRISTOPHER GEORGE EDWARD
IPC: E04D13/08
Filed: 2008-05-09
Abstract: A hydroelectric system 10 converts kinetic energy from water flowing off a roof 12 of a building 14 into electrical energy 18. The system 10 comprises a turbine 16 having a rotor 18 disposed in a down pipe (drain pipe) 20 which has an upper end 22 that receives water running off the roof 14, and also comprises two channels 24a, 24b that extend from the upper end 22 to respective outlets 26a, 26b which each direct water onto the rotor 18 causing rotation in the same direction. The two channels 24a, 24b are configured in a manner so that the channel 24a may overflow into the channel 24b. The channels 24a, 24b may have different diameters, channel 24a being smaller than channel 24b. A regulating reservoir 32 may be provided at the upper end 22 of the down pipe 20 to provide a controlled steady flow of water through the channel 24a. The reservoir 32 may have an upright wall 38 provided with a lower outlet 34 and an upper outlet 40. The turbine rotor 18 may be an Archimedes screw.
Patent GB-2450985-A (GB)
Title: Drive connection of motor and accessory with vehicle engine
Inventor: DENISTON PAUL MICHAEL
IPC: F02N99/00
Filed: 2008-07-08
Abstract: A system 10 is disclosed in which a belt integrated starter generator 14 is selectively used to drive one or more accessory components 16, 18 while an engine (12 see fig 2) is not running. The belt integrated starter generator 14 may also selectively drive a crankshaft 30 of the engine (12) in order to start the engine (12). A number of clutches (32, 36, 40 figs 2-4) are used to selectively engage and disengage drive from a belt 20 associated with the engine (12), the belt integrated starter generator 14 and the accessories 16, 18 so as to vary the driving relationship between the engine (12) and the accessories 16, 18 and between the belt integrated starter generator 14 and the accessories 16, 18. The vehicle is typically a micro hybrid. The invention includes a method for powering the accessory or accessories 16, 18 using the system 10.
Patent GB-2449382-A (GB)
Title: Nasal delivery device with mouthpiece
Inventor: DJUPESLAND PER GISLE
IPC: A61M15/00
Filed: 2005-09-15
Abstract: A nasal delivery device and method of delivering substance to a nasal cavity of a subject, the delivery device comprising: a container receiving unit comprising a container chamber 16 for receiving a substance containing container C which contains substance to be delivered to the nasal cavity of the subject, the container chamber 16 including an inlet 24 and an outlet 25; a nosepiece unit 17 including a nosepiece for fitting to a nasal cavity of the subject and being in fluid communication with the outlet 25 of the container chamber; a mouthpiece unit 19 including a mouthpiece in fluid communication with the inlet 24 of the container chamber 16 and through which the subject in use exhales, such as to entrain substance from the container and deliver the same through the nosepiece 17; and moisture mitigation means 79 for mitigating an effect of moisture in an exhaled breath on the entrainment of substance from the container, which means are provided, for example, by providing the container in a replaceable container containing member, by a pressure sensitive valve 26 which normally closes the fluid connection between the container chamber and the mouthpiece, and a temperature regulator 79 upstream of the container chamber. In another embodiment the device includes an actuating mechanism.
Patent GB-2464466-A (GB)
Title: A perforated brick wall support structure
Inventor: HARRISON ALEXIS
IPC: E04H17/14
Filed: 2008-10-14
Abstract: A brick wall structure 2 comprises a series of vertically extending support columns 4, a plurality of brick receiving brackets 6, 6' mounted to and projecting forwardly from the support columns in aligned rows and a plurality of bricks 8 supported between respective pairs of brackets. The brackets may be fixed or removable and, in use, the brackets may be pivotally retractable to a non supporting position. The brackets may be L shaped with a laterally extending support face to support a brick. A bonding or frictional material may be used between the support face of the bracket and the brick. Each bracket may further comprise a locator extending upwardly from the bracket and may preferably take the form of a pin which locates in a bore or recess of the brick. Further independent claims for the brickwork support and a gridwork structure for supporting brickwork are included. In use, the brick wall structure of the invention is intended to provide a wall which enables ventilation, screening or shading for example.
Patent GB-2451413-A (GB)
Title: Animal monitoring system
Inventor: GIBSON DAVID JOHN MICHAEL
IPC: A01K11/00
Filed: 2007-05-09
Abstract: Disclosed is an animal monitoring system that collects data regarding an animal and/or an animal's environment and enables access to the collected animal monitoring data. The system comprises a data-logger unit attached to an animal, that logs data regarding the animal or its environment; a data-relay for relaying the data to a data-storage means that collects the data; and a website that provides access to the collected data.
Patent GB-2466769-A (GB)
Title: MEP Identification and Peer MEP verification.
Inventor: O'CONNELL ANNE GERALDINE
IPC: H04L12/24
Filed: 2008-12-30
Abstract: Ethernet OAM (Operation, Administration and Management) circuits contain monitoring end points (MEPs) that exchange connectivity fault messages regularly between them. This invention is a search process to identify a receiving MEP and a process to verify the transmitting MEP, using information carried in the message, in a hardware efficient method with predictable search times independent of search table size. Embodiments of the invention include a method of operation of a communication system comprising enabling and configuring endpoints to transmit and receive connectivity fault messages on links between an endpoint and its remote peer endpoints, determining a loss of connectivity with a remote peer endpoint by the absence of received connectivity fault messages within a monitoring interval, measuring the performance of the link by using values carried between endpoints in connectivity fault messages.
Patent GB-2456409-A (GB)
Title: Noise reduction using standard deviation and variance calculations
Inventor: JANG SOON-GEUN
IPC: G06T5/20
Filed: 2009-01-06
Abstract: A method of obtaining variance data or standard deviation data for efficiently reducing noise in an image is provided. The method includes (a) dividing an image into a plurality of clusters using a k-means algorithm; (b) checking frequency data of data values of pixels included in each cluster; (c) obtaining a weighted average of the data values of the pixels included in each cluster; (d) obtaining a variance or a standard deviation of the data values of the pixels included in each cluster by using the weighted average; and (e) obtaining variance data or standard deviation data in accordance with weighted averages by using the weighted average and the variance or the standard deviation in each cluster. A digital photographing apparatus is also provided that includes a recording medium storing variance data or standard deviation data for efficiently reducing noise in an image which is obtained in accordance with the above method.
Patent GB-2457799-A (GB)
Title: Communication test system with configurable message parameter lengths and positions
Inventor: CONNOLLY DAVID
IPC: G06F11/263
Filed: 2009-02-19
Abstract: A communications test system accesses a data structure with several message fields using data indicating the position of each parameter field in the data structure and the number of bits in each parameter field. The test system can generate messages and parse messages using the parameter information. The parameter information may include the name of the parameter in order to allow users to input data to specific parameters. The system may check the values of parameters. The information about the parameters may be extracted from debugging information in an object code file.
Patent GB-2455670-A (GB)
Title: Connection manager with deferred configuration
Inventor: COLE TERRY LYNN
IPC: H04W48/18
Filed: 2007-09-24
Abstract: A method for configuring a mobile device (1 10) including a plurality of communication interfaces (225) is provided. A first one of the communication interfaces (225) is selected for establishing an initial connection to a first remote network (120). A user of the mobile device (1 10) is queried for configuration information related to the selected first communication interface (225). The mobile device (110) is connected to the first remote network (120) through the first communication interface (225). A loss of connectivity associated with the first communication interface (225) is identified. A second one of the communication interfaces (225) is selected for establishing a second connection to a second remote network (120). The user of the mobile device (110) is queried for configuration information related to the selected second communication interface (225). The mobile device (1 10) is connected to the second remote network (120) through the second communication interface (225).
Patent GB-2470406-A (GB)
Title: Attachment for a vacuum cleaning appliance
Inventor: IRELAND SIMON EDWARD
IPC: A01K13/00
Filed: 2009-05-22
Abstract: An attachment 10 for a vacuum cleaning appliance comprises a head 12, and a handle 14 connected to the head 12. The head 12 comprises a bristle carrier (16, fig 2) having a plurality of bristles (18, fig 2), and a bristle cover (22, fig 2) having a plurality of apertures (26, fig 2). The handle 14 comprises a first graspable portion 28 connected to the bristle cover (22, fig 2), a second graspable portion 30 connected to the bristle carrier (16, fig 2), the graspable portions 28, 30 being arranged to be brought together when the handle 14 is gripped by a user to effect relative movement between the bristle carrier (16, fig 2) and the bristle cover (22, fig 2) from a stowed configuration in which the bristles (18, fig 2) are retracted relative to the bristle cover (22, fig 2) and a deployed configuration in which the bristles (18, fig 2) protrude from the bristle cover (22, fig 2) through the apertures (26, fig 2), and a conduit (50, fig 3) connectable to the appliance, the head 12 comprising a suction opening (52, fig 6) of the conduit (50, fig 3). The attachment 10 may be used to groom pets and other animals.