baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2468773-A (GB)
Title: Cabriolet top for a cabriolet, and a cabriolet with a cabriolet top
Inventor: WEBER HANNO
IPC: B60J7/14
Filed: 2010-03-16
Abstract: The cabriolet top (8) has a roof (10) which, in a closed position (ST) of the cabriolet top, upwardly bounds a vehicle parts interior (9) and, for an open position of the cabriolet (1), is movable into a storage position (AS) in a storage space (21), and which furthermore, in the closed position (ST), has an approximately rectangular shape - as seen in top view - and which also comprises a plurality of movable roof parts (11, 12, 13) which, in the closed position (ST), form a continuous roof surface. For an optimized storage position, at least one roof part as the main roof part (11) has a shape which deviates from the rectangular shape and has at least one open-edged cutout (24, 25), in that, in the closed position (ST), the cutout (24, 25) is closed by at least another of the roof parts as the closing roof part (12, 13). and in that, in the storage position (AS), the closing roof part (12, 13) is displaced relative to the main roof part (11) and, in the process, opens up the cutout (24, 25). The closing roof part (s) (12, 13) can lie over or under the main roof part (11), or can take up a vertical orientation in the storage position (AS).
Patent GB-2467699-A (GB)
Title: Network search method for providing search window during execution of application program
Inventor: LA YEO JOON
IPC: G06F3/0482
Filed: 2008-12-10
Abstract: The present invention pertains to a network search method for providing a search window during running an application program. The network search method includes displaying a search tool 42 and 46 in a title bar 42 of a current on-going main application program widow among at least one application program window executed and displayed under a multiple-window environment (301), displaying a search keyword entered by a user in the search tool 42 and 46 (302), transmitting the search keyword to the search engine (303), receiving a search result from the search engine (304), generating a search result window (305), and displaying the search result in the search result window (306). The present invention offers the benefits of satisfying an intended search request in a current focal screen without requiring a user's visit to a search site, being applicable to most of current on-going application programs run by the user, and enabling the user to search only when he wants to.
Patent GB-2482314-A (GB)
Title: A climbing screen support system
Inventor: TAYLOR MARK
IPC: E04G3/20
Filed: 2010-07-29
Abstract: Â A climbing screen support system comprises a support rail 2 fixable to a surface 3 adjacent an edge 4 of a structure 5; a mounting arm 6 slidably securable to the rail so as to confine movement of the mounting arm in a linear direction along the support rail; and a climbing shoe 7 attachable to an end of the mounting arm, wherein the support system is configured such that the mounting arm 6 may be securely mounted to the support rail remote from the edge of the structure and subsequently slideable along the support rail such that the climbing shoe protrudes from the edge of the structure by a predetermined distance. The system may further comprise two brackets to slidably secure the mounting arm to the support rail. The support rail may comprise two U-shaped channel sections secured to one another. A further support system includes the use of a bracket fixable to the edge of a structure, in which the bracket may be a plate secured to the surface.
Patent GB-2469977-A (GB)
Title: Hydrogen supply unit for internal combustion engine and method of operating internal combustion engine
Inventor: ICHIKAWA MASARU
IPC: F01N3/20
Filed: 2008-07-04
Abstract: An efficient internal combustion engine jointly using hydrogen obtained by dehydrogenation of a hydrogen supply mass. There is disclosed a hydrogen supply unit for internal combustion engine comprising hydrogen separating means, storage means for storage of separated hydrogen, means for storage of dehydrogenation products and means for addition supply of produced hydrogen to a fuel source. The hydrogen separating means for separating produced hydrogen from dehydrogenation products, includes a dehydrogenation reactor for production of hydrogen from a hydrogen supply mass using at least either the hydrogen supply mass or a hydrocarbon fuel as the fuel source, which dehydrogenation reactor on its one face is provided with a hydrogen production section bearing a dehydrogenation catalyst and on its other face is provided with an oxidation reaction section allowing passage of an exhaust from the internal combustion engine and bearing an oxidation catalyst for oxidizing any dehydrogenation products from the hydrogen supply mass to thereby bring about heat generation.
Patent GB-2471787-A (GB)
Title: Wireless remote area sensor system
Inventor: WILSON JAMES NICHOLAS
IPC: G08C17/02
Filed: 2006-01-27
Abstract: A system comprises primary multipoint meshing radio network and a secondary wireless network, at least one interconnection point 3 between the networks and at least one sensor 4 comprising means for sensing a parameter and a node of the secondary network adapted to transmit data relating to the parameter, the sensor being adapted to switch off the secondary node when not in use. The networks differ in at least one characteristic, which may be their range or frequency. The system may deliver information to a gathering point 6. Transmitters and receivers in either network may use a combination of battery and solar. Nodes 2, 3 in the primary network may contain GPS receivers used to aid routing of information across the primary network and to provide timing information to synchronise sensors in the secondary network. The sensors may comprise a memory to store measured data before its transmission.
Patent GB-2484467-A (GB)
Title: Motorised vehicle controller with an acceleration control unit for limiting acceleration using a centripetal force factor
Inventor: TROWELL MATTHEW JOHN
IPC: B60L15/10
Filed: 2010-10-11
Abstract: A controller for a motorised vehicle, e.g. a front wheel drive wheelchair, receives control signals from a user input device, e.g. X,Y joystick, and is configured to control a motor arrangement of the vehicle in dependence on the control signals, wherein the controller comprises an acceleration control unit 60 configured to determine a centripetal force factor corresponding to a centripetal force which is currently acting on the vehicle as a result of the control signals, and is configured to calculate an acceleration limit for the motorised vehicle in dependence on the centripetal force factor. The acceleration control unit is configured to apply the acceleration limit by modifying a response of the controller to the control signals, such that the motorised vehicle does not exceed the acceleration limit. Preferably, the acceleration limit is calculated by a calculation unit 130 within the acceleration unit 60. Also disclosed is a method of controlling a motorised vehicle using the controller, a computer program product for use in the method, and a motorised vehicle comprising the controller.
Patent GB-2488507-A (GB)
Title: Tamper evident bag and manufacture
Inventor: LUFFMAN DAVID
IPC: B31B19/00
Filed: 2010-10-20
Abstract: Disclosed is a tamper evident bag in which layers constituting a tamper evident portion are attached directly to a surface of the bag, as opposed to being provided on a separate strip adhered to the bag. The tamper evident portion features a patterned release layer, an ink layer applied over the pattern release layer, a thermochromic ink applied in a region away from the release layer, and an adhesive coating. In a corresponding method of manufacture, the bags are made two at a time, back to back, from a double ended supply roll (fig.3). The double ended supply roll (fig.3) may be made from a split tube.
Patent GB-2473170-A (GB)
Title: Package for securing a blister pack
Inventor: GELARDI JOHN A
IPC: B65D83/04
Filed: 2009-07-17
Abstract: There is disclosed a sleeve package (10,12) having an interior chamber adapted to receice and securely contain a blister pack (13). The blister pack (13) includes at least one retaining hole (14) and a locking hole (9). The sleeve package (10,12) includes a top (10) and a bottom piece (12) snap fitted to form the sleeve package. The top piece (10) further includes a partially cut out tab portion (11) that can be deflected inward from the surface of the top piece (10), a retaining catch mechanism (17) oriented to engage the at least one retaining hole (14) of the blister pack, and a locking post (19) oriented and adapted to engage the locking hole (9). The bottom piece (12) includes raised ribs (15) such that the blister pack (13) is seated on the raised ribs within the interior chamber. The blister pack (13) is locked within the sleeve package (10,12) when the locking hole (9) engages the locking post (19) and unlocked when the cut out tab portion (11) is depressed.
Patent GB-2487953-A (GB)
Title: A pipe clamping apparatus
Inventor: STEPHEN ROBERT
IPC: F16L23/02
Filed: 2011-02-10
Abstract: A pipe clamping apparatus for supporting a clamped connection between two flanged pipes having an axis and flanges extending perpendicular to the axis. The clamping apparatus comprises at least two clamp devices fixed across the flanges, so that each clamp device engages a respective opposing face of the clamp connector, and having a force driver device to press the pair of clamp bodies together.
Patent GB-2479983-A (GB)
Title: Device and method for locating a parked vehicle
Inventor: KANNING TORSTEN
IPC: H04W4/20
Filed: 2011-04-21
Abstract: Disclosed is a method and portable device for locating a parked vehicle. The method has the steps of determining information about the location of the vehicle 20, transmitting the information to a portable localization device 40, and storing the information in the localization device 50 so that it can be retrieved later 60. Information about the environment of the vehicle is also determined 30 and transmitted 40 to the portable localization device 12. The information about the location may be obtained using GSP and the information about the environment using a cameras. The cameras may be a licence plate recognition camera and/or parking sensor cameras in the vehicle.
Patent GB-2478462-A (GB)
Title: Cyclone Vacuum Cleaner
Inventor: MAKAROV SERGEY V
IPC: A47L9/16
Filed: 2007-05-18
Abstract: An upright vacuum cleaner includes a housing and nozzle base having a main suction opening. The housing is pivotally mounted on the nozzle base. The housing has a cyclonic separator including a dirty air inlet and a sidewall. A lower end of the separator is secured to a lower skirt. A dust collector section is located beneath the separator and includes a sidewall. A perforated tube is disposed within the separator. The perforated tube includes a shroud extending away from a closed lower end of the perforated tube. The lower skirt and the shroud define an air channel for directing air from the separator into the dust collector section. The tapering separator sidewall provides part of an external surface of the vacuum cleaner and has support rids extending outwardly from this surface.
Patent GB-2492182-A (GB)
Title: Communication using time frames with a transmission rate of at least one second between receiving and sending frames
Inventor: MACMULLEN NEIL
IPC: H04W4/70
Filed: 2011-09-30
Abstract: A communication network controller, implemented as a virtual machine, formats data to be transmitted over the network into a series of frames. The formatted data is transferred to a radio within a basestation which is then controlled to transmit the series of frames at a frame rate that is sufficiently low for there to be a delay of at least one second between data being received over the network by the radio and the controller having to control the radio to transmit a response to that data. By allowing this delay between frames the controller can undertake additional data processing, which further allows firmware usually located at the basestation to instead be implemented in software remote from the base station. This is described within a machine to machine or machine type communication (M2M or MTC) network operating in white space, where there is limited bandwidth and/or a low data rate.
Patent GB-2497113-A (GB)
Title: Turbocharger arrangement including a generator
Inventor: PARKER JOHN F
IPC: F02B37/00
Filed: 2011-12-01
Abstract: A turbocharger arrangement is disclosed comprising a turbocharger 50 and a generator 42. The turbocharger 50 comprises a turbine 1 having a turbine wheel and a compressor 56 having a compressor wheel 58. The turbine wheel and the compressor wheel 58 are mounted to a shaft, the shaft being supported by a bearing assembly located in a bearing housing 3 between the turbine 1 and the compressor 56, such that the shaft may rotate about an axis; The compressor wheel is between the generator and the bearing assembly; and an inducer portion 58a of the compressor wheel 58 is between an exducer portion 58b of the compressor wheel 58 and the bearing assembly 3. The arrangement is intended to minimise heating of the generator which could adversely effect generator performance.
Patent GB-2484424-A (GB)
Title: Mounting field coil structures in a rotor or a stator of a superconducting electrical machine
Inventor: EUGENE JOSEPH
IPC: H02K55/00
Filed: 2007-10-25
Abstract: A rotor 1 (or a stator) for a superconducting electrical machine includes a mounting 2 that is maintained at substantially ambient temperature during operation of the electrical machine; a field coil support structure 3 carrying a plurality of superconducting field coils 4 maintained at cryogenic temperatures during operation; and at least one coupling element 5 is used to fix the field coil support structure 3 to the mounting 2, where the at least one coupling element 5 is formed substantially from carbon fibre or glass fibre, and wherein the primary direction of the fibre lay is substantially at an angle that minimises thermal contraction of the coupling element when the field coils are cooled to cryogenic temperatures. The field coils 4 are preferably formed of high temperature superconducting coils. The field coil support structure 3 may be formed of a substantially cylindrical sleeve formed around the mounting 2 having first and second axial ends.
Patent GB-2484043-A (GB)
Title: Fines migration control at their sources in water flooding reservoirs
Inventor: HUANG TIANPING
IPC: C09K8/58
Filed: 2010-06-18
Abstract: Water flood materials may contain an effective amount of a nano-sized particulate additive to inhibit or control the movement of fines within a subterranean formation during a water flood secondary recovery operation The particulate additive may be an alkaline earth metal oxide, alkaline earth metal hydroxide, alkaline metal oxide, alkali metal hydroxide, transition metal oxide, transition metal hydroxide, post-transition metal oxide, post-transition metal hydroxide, piezoelectric crystal and/or pyroelectric crystal The particle size of the magnesium oxide or other agent may be nanometer scale, which scale may provide unique particle charges that help control and stabilize the fines, e.g. clays.
Patent GB-2498230-A (GB)
Title: Application switcher in first device with indication of content available on second device
Inventor: COLLIN RICHARD MICHAEL
IPC: H04M1/72412
Filed: 2012-03-20
Abstract: Apparatus (portable electronic device, laptop, mobile-phone, smartphone, tablet, personal digital assistant, digital camera, watch, desktop, monitor, server) providing application switcher to first device 420 with indication of content available to first device from open applications 401, 402, 406 on second device 410, wherein content of open applications of the second device is shareable in real time with an application on first device; and providing, in response to user-selection of content 401 from application switcher, the user-selected shareable content of open application 401 of second device for use on first device using a first device application. First device application counterpart to the open application on second device can be opened in response to user-selection and second device can exit open application. The switcher provides visual cue indicating that available content is from first and/or second device. Default counterpart first device application can be initiated in response to content selection on second device. First device application is configured according to user-selected shareable content comprising transient information (unsaved data; onscreen positioning of window, cursor, scroll; selection indication on screen; functional, temporal settings; presentational information; user-defined appearance; current instances of temporary data; position of screen; zoom magnification). Synchronization of content between applications is provided.
Patent GB-2492206-A (GB)
Title: Ram air turbine governor
Inventor: SEIDEL WILLIAM E
IPC: B64D41/00
Filed: 2012-05-29
Abstract: A ram air turbine governor 10 includes a hub 19 carrying multiple turbine blades 20. A sensor (60,62,64, fig 3) is configured to detect a parameter such as speed, condition or vibration. A counterweight 34 is coupled to at least one turbine blade 20 and is configured to provide an input to the turbine blade 20 in response to a centrifugal force to move the turbine blade 20 from a first pitch position to a second pitch position. An electromechanical actuator 52 is operatively coupled to the counterweight 34. A controller 58 is in communication with the electromechanical actuator 52 and the sensor. The controller 58 is configured to command the electromechanical actuator 52 and move the turbine blade 20 from the second pitch position to a third pitch position in response to the detected parameter.
Patent GB-2491980-A (GB)
Title: Circuit controlling plural relays for an electricity meter
Inventor: BEZAWADA MURALI KRISHNA
IPC: G01R22/06
Filed: 2012-06-15
Abstract: A relay control circuit comprises plural relay coils L3, L4, L5 and a pair of common switches 1,2 connected to an end of each coil. Each of plural relay-specific switch pairs 3,4; 5,6 and 7,8 is connected to the other end of one coil, opposite the common coil connection end. The pair of common switches 1,2 and the relay-specific switch pairs 3,4; 5,6 and 7,8 can operate cooperatively on the relay coils to selectively open and close a corresponding relay. The circuit can be used for ancillary load control relays and service disconnect relays in a utility or electricity meter and controlled by a microcontroller. The relays can be single or three phase relays. A mechanism to limit current should more than one of a switch pair be turned on simultaneously can comprise a resistor R1, a network of resistors R1, R2, R3 or short circuit protection logic (505, fig 5). The switches can be metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), (SW1-SW8, fig 6) or bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) (SW1-SW8, fig 7).
Patent GB-2504143-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle barrier
Inventor: BALL ROBERT NICHOLAS
IPC: E01F13/04
Filed: 2012-07-20
Abstract: The vehicle barrier comprises first and second support assemblies 2,3 with a flexible coupling member 4 coupled to the first support assembly and a bridging member 5 extending from the first to the second support assembly, wherein the bridging member supports the flexible coupling member which is attached thereto so that it is movable along the bridging member for coupling to the second support assembly to define a barrier. Each support assembly includes a respective foundation element 7,9 to which an adaptor assembly 6,8 is attached to permit attachment and removal of the support assemblies from the foundation elements. The bridging member is preferably attached to one of the adaptor assemblies, one of which preferably includes a tensioning assembly 17 arrangement for adjusting the tension in the bridging member. Also claimed is a kit of parts for a barrier apparatus and a method of providing a barrier.
Patent GB-2494030-A (GB)
Title: Motor vehicle windscreen support
Inventor: FER JOACHIM SCHA
IPC: B60R21/34
Filed: 2012-07-31
Abstract: A motor vehicle body comprises a front hood 1, a windshield 22 rising from a rear edge of the front hood 1 and a cross member 4 substantially extending over the width of the windshield 22, of which a front edge 6 supports a front lower edge of the windshield 22 and a rear edge 5 is supported on a structural element 23 of the body. A top side of the cross member 4 faces the passenger cell and a bottom side faces the engine compartment. Between the front edge 6 and the rear edge 5 the cross member 4 comprises at least one first region with zones 13 & 14, in which the top side is concavely curved in a section plane running in vehicle longitudinal direction and which yields to a load, such as the head 7 of a pedestrian, by intensifying the curvature along an apex line 15 yielding towards the engine compartment and pivoting of two zones 13, 14 extending on both sides of the apex line 15 towards each other.
Patent GB-2495820-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for optimizing virtual machines placement in cloud computing environments
Inventor: TEICH TORSTEN
IPC: G06F9/50
Filed: 2012-10-04
Abstract: Optimised placement of virtual machine (VM) images in cloud computing environments, comprising: receiving user request for deploying and indicating new VM-image; reading VM resource usage profiles (user-specific if available) comprising first consumption data over first time period 303; reading resource pool profile comprising second resource consumption data over second time period 302; for each of the resource-pool profiles, aligning the read VM and resource-pool usage profiles, calculating an aggregated resource consumption profile 301 predictive of total resource consumption; and determining resource pools having the least aggregated consumption. Pool with least resource usage can have lowest integral resource consumption value of the aggregated not exceed threshold 306. User specific profile comprises rules for guaranteeing accordance with service level agreement. Advantages comprise: instantiation of VM-instances at future times when they are needed even if they cannot be provided at current time; automatic, dynamic instantiation of VM-instances adapted to changing workloads of resource-pool.
Patent GB-2507987-A (GB)
Title: Method of automatically processing an ultrasound image
Inventor: FRANCIS DARREL
IPC: A61B8/08
Filed: 2012-11-15
Abstract: Method for automatically processing an ultrasound image for echocardiography, a method comprises determining an average velocity vector for tissue movement in the image; comparing the average velocity vector to a central longitudinal direction of the image; and providing, based on the comparison, an indication (arrow) of the mis-alignment of an ultrasound probe which generates the image. Preferably the comparison is of the angle of the average velocity vector to the longitudinal direction which gives a tilting of the probe indication, preferably in three dimensions. Alternative methods which determine mis-location of the probe or cardiac timing information based on minima and maxima average velocity vectors or identifying three regions such as medial, septum and lateral walls of the heart based on confidence values assigned to velocity vectors. Furthermore, an ultrasound probe which has a display detachably mounted to the probe for showing the probes images. Preferably the probe has a movement sensor and a notifying means to the operator. When the probe is not in use it may be located in a docking station.