baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2424281-A (GB)
Title: Radiotherapeutic Apparatus with MRI
Inventor: RAAYMAKERS BAS W
IPC: G01R33/34
Filed: 2005-03-17
Abstract: A radiotherapeutic apparatus comprises a linear accelerator that is rotateable around an isocentre, and a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus disposed around the isocentre, in which the rf coil windings of the magnetic resonance imaging system are of a conductive material shaped as a thin strip of the same order as the skin effect of radio-frequency signal conduction. A significantly better path for transmission of radiation to the patient is thus obtained, with less inhomogeneity and scattering. The rf coil windings preferably have a thickness less than about 100 microns, about 15 times the theoretical skin depth. Further, a radiotherapeutic apparatus comprises a linear accelerator that is rotateable around an isocentre within a beam transmission plane, and a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus disposed around the isocentre, the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus including coils for generating a magnetic field, disposed in an annular ring located in a plane displaced from the beam transmission plane. Placing the coils of the main magnet and/or the gradient coils on either side of the beam portal provides what are, in effect, annular shielding elements either side of the beam. This means that radiation scattered from parts of the MRI system can be absorbed by the coils in their capacity as shields, and (therefore) that the amount of further shielding can be reduced or even eliminated.
Patent GB-2413641-A (GB)
Title: Detecting signal behaviour in eye diagram analysis
Inventor: WOOD GLENN
IPC: G01R13/00
Filed: 2005-04-26
Abstract: A description of signal behaviour in the vicinity of a time and voltage of interest is produced by defining a region (A, B, C, D) in the (time, voltage) plane that is a closed straight sided figure whose vertices are identified by threshold crossings offset for the voltage of interest and clocked by time delays offset from a clock time of interest. A first set of latches (59-62) clocked by the time delays accumulates the state of signal behaviour relative to the threshold voltages as it occurs, and their contents are subsequently transferred to a second set of latches (63-66) at the start of a new clock cycle, allowing a new accumulation to begin and also allowing a detection logic circuit to operate on a unified and completed collection of indicators of what the just concluded description amounts to. The detection logic circuit responds to the combinations of latched indications to produce a signal corresponding to that description. The closed figure need not be a rectangle, and it may also serve as an indication that a signal went into a region that it should not have, e.g., an eye violation detector.
Patent GB-2416079-A (GB)
Title: Mixing device with variable frequency AC motor drive
Inventor: HUANG JOSEPH C
IPC: B01F7/16
Filed: 2005-05-03
Abstract: A mixing machine comprises a head extending over a bowl receiving location, the head including a rotatable output member for receiving a mixer tool and further including a gear system for rotating the rotatable output member about a rotation axis and orbiting of the rotation axis about another axis. The machine further comprises an AC induction motor 214 having an output connected to drive the gear system and a drive for operating the motor. The drive includes a rectification section 202 for converting AC power to DC power and a switching section 208 for producing a 3 phase variable frequency output. Mix speed changes can be made solely by adjusting the frequency of the 3 phase variable frequency output and therefore the motor speed. The drive may control acceleration when changing from one mix speed to another and the switching section may be controlled by a plurality of pulse width modulated control signals.
Patent GB-2416329-A (GB)
Title: Circular saw with removable blade cover
Inventor: WILLER MARK
IPC: B23D59/00
Filed: 2003-09-30
Abstract: A circular saw comprises a housing 40, a saw blade 15 driven by a motor 30, a removable cover 95 and a semi-circular cover 200. The removable cover 95 covers the semi-circular cover 200 and both partially surround the saw blade 15. The removable cover 95 is locked to the housing 40 using a fastening 170 which does not require the use of tools and defines a cavity between two walls 110 and 115 into which waste is deflected via a slot 100 between the housing 40 and the semicircular cover 200 by means of a tab 105. A window 106 in the removable cover 95 facilitates monitoring the amount of waste present. The removable cover may be locked onto the housing using an over centre latch 170 on the housing 40 which is engageable with a recess 160 in the removable cover 95, a threaded fastener, a belt which fits into a ratchet mechanism or a belt with apertures to receive pins.
Patent GB-2432419-A (GB)
Title: Influenza A virus detection method
Inventor: INOUE MASAFUMI
IPC: C12Q1/70
Filed: 2005-11-16
Abstract: A simple, specific and sensitive test for the presence of Influenza A, Subtype H5N1. Kits comprising probe or primers useful in the test are also provided.
Patent GB-2422666-A (GB)
Title: Methods and apparatus for investigating side effects
Inventor: KUTSYY VADIM
IPC: G01N33/50
Filed: 2004-07-16
Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer programs for investigating and characterising side effects of a treatment having an intended or on-target effect on cells are described. The method can include identifying a group of on-target cellular features of the plurality of cells which are affected by the treatment and are related to the on-target effect. A group of off-target cellular features can also be identified which are different to the on-target cellular features and which are also affected by the treatment and which are related to the side effect. A measure of the side effect based on the off-target cellular features can be obtained. The treatment can then be characterised based on the measure of the side effect. A further method involves capturing an image of the population of treated cells and deriving cellular features from the image. An on-target effect signature, which is characteristic of the on-target effect is created from cellular features relating to cellular properties involved in the intended effect. A side effect signature, which is characteristic of a side effect to the on-target effect, is created using cellular features relating to cellular properties not involved in the intended effect. On target effect and/or side effect metrics are obtained from the signatures which can be used to characterise the treatment.
Patent GB-2435530-A (GB)
Title: Method for educating children to acquire financial responsibility
Inventor: CHERTOK YORAM
IPC: G06Q20/00
Filed: 2006-02-22
Abstract: Method for educating children to acquire financial responsibility, according to which a service provider website is adapted for interaction by child users. The website allows selective access to web pages of predetermined child-oriented content and provides a plurality of parent deposited and child accessible accounts. A desired website, linked with the service provider's website is then loaded and a commodity or service of interest, available from that loaded website is ordered, when a corresponding child accessible account has a sufficient remaining sum.
Patent GB-2440103-A (GB)
Title: An item of footwear or an insole for an item of footwear which includes a pad for storing a treatment agent
Inventor: HOOD MARK ADAM
IPC: A43B7/00
Filed: 2006-07-20
Abstract: An item of footwear comprising a sole (6) for supporting the foot of the wearer, the item of footwear being provided with a plurality of pads (3, 4, 5) for storing an agent for treating the foot of the wearer, wherein each pad comprises an upper pad surface (3B) that, in use, faces the sole of the foot of the wearer, the upper pad surface being. permeable to the agent such that, in use, the agent may pass through the upper pad surface to the foot of the wearer. An insole for an item of footwear is also provided.
Patent GB-2433359-A (GB)
Title: Protection method and device for lithium battery
Inventor: CHERNG JING-YIH
IPC: H01M10/48
Filed: 2006-10-06
Abstract: A protecting method for lithium battery and device thereof are applied for the control of a battery's charged or discharged procedure in order to prevent it from being overcharged or over-discharged. This protecting device of lithium battery 4 is comprised of abnormality-detecting circuit 2, photo-coupling circuit 3, balance circuit 9, and identity circuit 8. The abnormality-detecting circuit checks voltage value of a charged battery and outputs a measuring signal. If the signal is normal, then the charge or discharge will be continued. If the signal is abnormal, the charge or discharge will be cut off. Next, the balance circuit will judge if the measuring signal is an overcharging signal in order to decide that the battery will be discharged or not. In the meantime, if the signal is abnormal, the photo-coupling circuit will adjusts its-impedance to cut off the connection between the charged battery and an external circuit, and the identity circuit will provide the location of the battery that sends out the abnormal signal.
Patent GB-2431274-A (GB)
Title: Coin changer with improved funnel design
Inventor: BIERMANN WAYNE T
IPC: G07D11/00
Filed: 2006-10-10
Abstract: A coin changer 100 has a chute 110 which delivers coins into a funnel to be fed to an acceptor 104 which performs coin validation and routing. The acceptor 104 is removably mounted on the coin changer body 102. The chute 110 extends into the funnel to avoid coins jamming. The funnel 112 is split vertically and has a front funnel portion 120, two side funnel portions 122,124 and a rear funnel portion 118. The rear funnel portion 118 is attached to the coin changer body 102 and the front funnel portion 120 is attached to the acceptor 104. Thus it is possible to remove the acceptor 104 without removing the chute 110.
Patent GB-2446151-A (GB)
Title: Eight speed transmission with Ravigneaux and planetary gearsets
Inventor: RIHN MATTHIEU
IPC: F16H3/66
Filed: 2007-01-31
Abstract: An automatic transmission comprises a planetary gear set having sun gear member S3, a ring gear member R3 and a planet carrier CR3 with two sets of intermeshing pinions P3r and P3s. The transmission also comprises a Ravigneaux gearset with a first ring gear member R1, a second ring gear member R2, a first sun gear member S1 and a second sun gear member S2. A long pinion LP meshes with the first ring gear member R1, the second ring gear member R2, a short pinion rear P2 and a short pinion front P1. A plurality of selectively engageable torque transmitting devices, e.g. dynamic and reaction clutches C1, C678, are configured to selectively interconnect selected members of the planetary gearset and the Ravigneaux gearset to provide at least eight forward speed ratios and at least one reverse speed. In one embodiment the sun gear S3 is connected to an input member and the planet carrier CR3 is continuously grounded while in another embodiment the planet carrier CR3 is connected to the input, the sun gear S3 is continuously grounded and the first ring gear R1 of the Ravigneaux gearset is connected to an output member.
Patent GB-2450118-A (GB)
Title: Hosiery with trim attached by adhesive
Inventor: STURMAN RICHARD
IPC: A41B11/12
Filed: 2007-06-13
Abstract: A hosiery item comprises a hosiery leg or body 2 having an open top and, having adhered thereto with an adhesive, a trim 12. The hosiery has no stitching apart from a gusset. The adhesive is a thermoplastic or pressure sensitive adhesive.
Patent GB-2450181-A (GB)
Title: Insulating batten
Inventor: MITTON PAUL DAVID
IPC: E04D12/00
Filed: 2007-08-24
Abstract: A constructional element, which may be a batten <B>12</B>, is adapted compressively to contact multifoil insulation <B>13</B> which has a thermal resistivity which is reduced on compression. The batten has a thermal resistivity that compensates for the compressive reduction in resistivity of the multifoil insulation. The constructional element may comprise a batten comprising a rigid foam such as rigid polyurethane foam. The constructional element may be reinforced with plywood.
Patent GB-2439696-A (GB)
Title: Heat exchangers with turbulizers having convolutions of varied height
Inventor: CHU STANLEY
IPC: F28F13/12
Filed: 2006-04-28
Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises at least one tube or plate pair defining a fluid flow passage which is reduced in height across a portion of its width. A turbulizer comprising a plurality of rows of convolutions is received inside the fluid flow passage in either the low pressure drop or high pressure drop orientation. The turbulizer includes convolutions of reduced height in order to at least partially fill the reduced-height portions of the fluid flow passage and thereby reduce bypass flow. In some preferred embodiments of the invention, heat exchanger tubes or plate pairs define fluid flow passages which are reduced in height along their edges, and the turbulizer is similarly reduced in height along its edges.
Patent GB-2449540-A (GB)
Title: Calibration Method for the Altitude Reading of a Mobile Device
Inventor: AHLSTROEM MIKKO TUOMAS
IPC: G01C5/06
Filed: 2008-05-13
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a mobile device. In accordance with the method - pressure data is measured, the pressure data is used as atmospheric-pressure data and/or for the definition of altitude, and the magnetic field of the Earth is measured by a magnetic sensor (22). In accordance with the invention consecutive measurements are performed using the magnetic sensor (22) and the consecutive measurement results are compared, and on the basis of the comparison the mobile device (20) is commanded to either atmospheric-pressure measurement or altitude measurement.
Patent GB-2449991-A (GB)
Title: Swaged coupling for polyethene pipe
Inventor: YAMASHITA TAMOTSU
IPC: F16L13/14
Filed: 2008-06-05
Abstract: A coupling for joining a polyethene (polyethelyene, PE) pipe 2 to the socket of a rigid fitting 1 comprises an inner metallic core 4 inserted into the end of the pipe 2. The core 4 is expanded so that it bulges outwards 40, thus causing the pipe to form a convex curve or bulge 20 and make contact with the fitting 1, which may be made of ductile cast iron. The fitting 1 has engaging members such as teeth 11, and a packing (sealing) ring 3 to retain and seal the pipe 2 in the fitting 1.
Patent GB-2464343-A (GB)
Title: Wearable carrying belt
Inventor: DASH RICHARD ERNEST
IPC: A45F5/14
Filed: 2008-10-16
Abstract: A device for carrying skis, snowboards or the like comprises a strap with adjustable fasteners and may be worn as a belt when not in use. The belt has adjustable two-piece fasteners so as to be adjustable in size. Two metal rings may be provided at one end of the belt so that is may be tensioned and secured by passing a free end of the belt through the rings.
Patent GB-2472238-A (GB)
Title: Sound shell
Inventor: STEPHENSON MARK
IPC: E04H3/22
Filed: 2009-07-29
Abstract: A performance shell 1 for outdoor music performance has a platform or stage 2 providing a performance area for a sound source 4 such as a singer, orator or musician. The platform 2 is surrounded by a rear wall reflector 5, side wall reflectors 6 and a canopy reflector 7 to define an enclosure having an opening 11 to communicate acoustically with an open air audience area 12. The canopy reflector 7 has a main portion 8 above the platform 2 and a projecting portion 9 projecting forwardly of a front edge 10 of the platform 2. The canopy reflector has sound diffusion formations 13 on an underside of the main portion 8 and the projecting portion 9 to provide non specular reflection of sound from the sound source 4 for enhancing sound in the performance area and the audience area 12.
Patent GB-2473248-A (GB)
Title: Determining image misalignment by comparing image characteristics at points along a line
Inventor: COOPER RICHARD JARED
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2009-09-04
Abstract: A method of determining misalignment in one direction of an image of a scene, captured by a first camera, comprises: defining a line between a first and a second points in the image, preferably extending in the misalignment direction; defining a reference section in the scene to which the image is to be aligned, having a reference image characteristic; identifying an image characteristic at different points along the line in the image; comparing the image characteristic at each point along the line with the reference image characteristic, and determining the amount of misalignment using the distance between the position of the reference image characteristic of the reference section captured in the image and the defined reference section in the scene. The image characteristic may be formed by bi-linear interpolation. A polar template may be displayed on the images to aid alignment, via circular and radial template lines. The method may be applied to the alignment of three dimensional (3D), stereoscopic images.
Patent GB-2463180-A (GB)
Title: Method for connecting two joining partners
Inventor: ZAPF LOTHAR
IPC: B29C65/00
Filed: 2007-06-01
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for connecting a first joining partner (1) to a second joining partner (2). After provision of the first joining partner (1) and the second joining partner (2), a lacquer layer (11) is applied to the first joining partner (1). Then the first joining partner (1) and the second joining partner (2) are saturated together with an impregnating resin (8). The lacquer layer (11) is produced from a lacquer composition based on an epoxy resin mixture, a curing accelerator, a silane-based, epoxy-functional bonding agent, and a solvent. The epoxy resin mixture has 10 wt.-% to 94 wt.-% of at least one solid epoxy resin with a maximum epoxy count of 2 Eg/kg, 1 wt.-% to 50 wt.-% of at least one solid, multifunctional epoxy resin with an epoxy count > 4 Eg/kg, and 5 wt.-% to 40 wt.-% of a phenol and/or kresol novolak with a melting point > 30°C. After impregnation, the viscosity of the impregnating resin (8) is reduced such that the first joining partner (1) and the second joining partner (2) are connected to one another.
Patent GB-550264-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a method of and apparatus for drawing sheet glass
IPC: C03B15/08
Filed: 1941-08-06
Abstract: 550,264. Drawing sheet glass. STEVENS, A. H. (Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.). Aug. 6, 1941, No. 10015. [Class 56] A process for making sheet glass consists in drawing a sheet from a bath of molten glass, and in forming quiescent zones in the atmosphere about the lower part of the sheet to prevent the films of air in contact with the surfaces of the sheet from being disturbed or removed by convection currents. The undisturbed air films insulate the sheet and equalize the temperatures of the surfaces and the core of the sheet, and the cooling of the sheet by radiation is rendered more uniform. The invention may be applied to a drawing- apparatus of the kind in which a glass sheet 30 is drawn vertically upwards through a drawing- chamber 21 and through a slot 36 into a vertical leer 35, temperature conditions during the setting of the glass being controlled by fluidcontaining coolers 37, 39, 40, 43, 44. In this apparatus, an upward draught created in the leer causes hot gases to flow from the chamber 21 through the slot 36 ; and these convection currents continually remove the films of gas in contact with the rising sheet. According to the invention, this effect may be counteracted by blowing heated air into the upper part of the chamber 21 through conduits 50 perforated with holes 55. The jets of air from the holes 55 are directed upwards and part of the air current passes through the slot 36, sufficient to supply the amount normally drawn from the chamber 21 by the leer. Another part of the air from the jets passes slowly downwards about the sheet 30 and prevents the formation of convection currents, thus creating a quiescent zone. While passing through this quiescent zone, the sheet cools by radiation to the coolers. In a modification, baffle plates may extend downwards from the tops of the coolers 40 to a position close to the glass sheet. In another modification, a horizontal shield rests on each of the coolers 44, the inner edge of each shield being arranged close to the glass sheet. These shields act as baffles that prevent upward currents of gas and thus establish a quiescent zone adjacent to the sheet. The shields can be used alone without the assistance of air jets from the conduits. 50.
Patent GB-493458-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to self-binding harvesters
IPC: A01D37/02
Filed: 1937-04-08
Abstract: 493,458. Sheafing and binding machines. BORLEY, G. April 8, 1937, No. 10038. [Class 6 (iii)] The main platform 1 is provided with transverse conveying means consisting of upstanding spikes or fingers 25 on endless chains 20 passing over sprocket wheels 21, 24 on shafts 22, 23 respectively. The spikes project through slots between plates 26 forming the platform and the crop is conveyed transversely till it passes from the upwardly inclined ends of the plates 26 on to an upwardly inclined plate 28 up which it is carried to the sheafing mechanism by hook members 31. To give the ends 31a of the hooks the elliptical movement for drawing the crop up the plate 28, the cranks 33 of a shaft 32 pass through the shanks of the hooks and at the ends the shanks are connected by links 34 loose on a rod 35. The hooks are arranged to operate in succession on the crop. The cutter bar 2 is actuated from a crank or cam 4 on a shaft 5 that is driven through a universal joint from a power shaft 36 extending from the tractor ; this shaft also drives, through chain-and-sprocket gear, the binding mechanism shafts 41, 29, the crankshaft 32 and the shaft 23 and through worm- and-bevel gear the reel 7, the reel frame being provided with a forwardly extending rod 15 so as to be adjustable by the driver of the tractor. Caster wheels 38, 40 and a positively adjustable wheel 39 provide for the machine being drawn sidewardly to pass through gates &c.
Patent GB-703139-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to devices for dry shaving and the like
IPC: B26B19/04
Filed: 1952-04-22
Abstract: 703,139. Dry shavers. PAOLI, M. DE. April 22, 1952 [April 26, 1951], No. 10095/52. Class 131 A dry shaver, of the type comprising a tubular, movable, cutter member slidably fitted within a tubular, fixed, cutter member the upper cutting portions of both members being slotted and having a curved cross-sectional profile, is characterized in that the profile comprises a central portion of elliptical, or oval, crosssectional contour extended on either side by a curved portion having a radius of curvature which is small with respect to that of the central portion, the cutter members mating along the elliptical portion and along at least a part of each curved extension. As shown, a movable cutter 1 is reciprocated within a fixed cutter 2 by a driving lever 4 through a shock-absorbing pad 5, a coil spring 6 urging the portion 8 of the cutter 1, which has slots 12, against the portion 7 of the cutter 2, which has slots 9 interrupted by bridge portions 10. The parts 7, 8 have portions a, b of elliptical crosssectional contour formed at both ends with curved extensions c a, b d, the curved extensions terminating at the level of the horizontal plane X-X which passes through the centres of the circular arcs c a, b d. The upper portion of the part 7 may be ground to reduce its thickness. The cutter members are formed by stamping and pressing a blank from sheet metal stock and a number of cutting heads may be mounted on a dry shaver-body, a hair guard enclosing the extremities of the head or heads.