baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2583707-A (GB)
Title: Steering control for a vehicle
Inventor: KIRAN THOMAS
IPC: B62D1/06
Filed: 2019-04-24
Abstract: A steering control 100 for a vehicle has a cover 110 formed from flexible material applied over a supporting structure to provide a gripping surface for a user. Cover 110 has a plurality of electrically conductive surface regions 121, 122 that comprise electrically-conductive material, for example a conductive thread woven through a non-conductive material, and which are grippable by a user to provide a steering input. Conductive regions 121, 122 are laterally spaced apart about steering control 100 and are electrically isolated from one another. Non-conductive separators 131, 132 may be provided between conductive regions 121, 122. Conductive regions 121, 122 may each be split into isolated subregions either side of a plane bisecting a longitudinal axis of a gripping member of steering control 100, for example anterior and posterior or inner and outer.
Patent GB-2580723-A (GB)
Title: Powder handling apparatus
Inventor: DAVID EDWARD BEEBY
IPC: G01N1/20
Filed: 2019-05-02
Abstract: A powder handling apparatus comprising a powder conduit to direct a flow of powder along a powder flow path; and a sampler 160 having a sample inlet 162 with an elongate sample accumulator for receiving powder from the flow path. A seperator, e.g. with sieve (134, fig 2a) and/or cyclonic separator (132, fig 2a), may remove oversized particles, and may supply powder to a hopper 150, (140, fig 2a). The accumulator is designed for monitoring powder in an additive manufacturing system and the flow path may possess an outlet 168 to the system to form a recirculation loop (120, fig 2a), which may recirculate powder from a previous manufacturing process. An inert gas may maintain the powder under an inert atmosphere.
Patent GB-2588137-A (GB)
Title: Digital audio workstation
Inventor: Ryan Stables
IPC: H04H60/04
Filed: 2019-10-09
Abstract: A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for adjusting spatial position (panning) and volume of audio tracks 346, wherein the audio tracks together comprise a group 351. Each audio track, and the group track, have a first spatial position value and a first volume value. The digital audio workstation comprises a user interface with a stage view which depicts one or more group track user interface objects 349. A user adjusts the first spatial position value and/or volume value of the group track wherein the digital audio workstation calculates a second spatial position value and/or volume value of each of the one or more audio tracks based on the adjusted spatial position and/or volume of the group track. Audio track user interface objects 347 are displayed on the stage view interface where the position of each of the audio track user interface objects represents the second spatial position value and/or volume value of that track. Also disclosed is a DAW where a segment of the stage boundary is highlighted and represents maximum and minimum values for spatial position and volume of a group track.
Patent GB-2590605-A (GB)
Title: Embellishment Kits
Inventor: DANIEL ROBINSON
IPC: F21V21/10
Filed: 2019-11-21
Abstract: A component for an embellishment kit for a street furniture column 10 is annular and adapted to surround the column. The kit is used to transform the appearance of standard lighting columns, for example to provide a ‘heritage look’. The component is formed from a non-electrically conductive material, and may be moulded. Each component may be formed from two or more semi-annular parts that can be fitted together around the column. The semi-annular parts may comprise cooperating male and female mating elements to engage them together. The semi-annular parts may be the same shape and size as one another. Also claimed is an annular embellishment component for surrounding a column, the component being formed from two or more separable, semi-annular parts. The component may be formed from moulded, non-electrically conductive polymer such as thermosetting polyurethane. Further claimed is an embellishment kit and street furniture column.
Patent GB-2589376-A (GB)
Title: Detecting a trigger in a surgical robotic system
Inventor: SIMON SCHOFIELD
IPC: B25J19/06
Filed: 2019-11-29
Abstract: A surgical robotic system, for identifying the triggering of a condition in the system, has: a robot arm 203; a controller 208; and a wiring arrangement 204 electrically connecting the robot arm and the controller. The wiring arrangement comprises: a first electrical coupling 205 with circuitry 207 to generate a selective electrical disconnect such as an emergency stop; a second electrical coupling 206; a first sensor 209 to measure the output (voltage or current) from the first coupling; and a second sensor 210 to measure the output from the second coupling. The controller compares the outputs. When they differ from each other, or from expected values, a protective stop condition is identified and all robotic arms in the system are held stationary. Each coupling may be formed of two pairs of ethernet cables. Multiple robotic arms may be daisy chained in series or arranged in parallel.
Patent GB-2590642-A (GB)
Title: Improved lambda antibodies
Inventor: John Kenneth Blackwood
IPC: C07K16/40
Filed: 2019-12-20
Abstract: A method of improving stability and/or antigen-binding of an antibody comprising a VH domain and a VL lambda domain and having a non-lambda chain N-terminal signal peptide comprises deleting the codon encoding the residue at IMGT position 1 of VL lambda domain. A chimeric antibody lambda VL domain is disclosed wherein the VL domain comprises a v λ and a j gene segment, wherein the N-terminal signal peptide is not a v λ gene segment signal peptide, and wherein the residue at VL domain IMGT position 1 is absent or deleted and the N-terminal residue of the mature VL domain is IMGT position 2.
Patent GB-2590731-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to detection and mapping of cracks
Inventor: SABER KHAYATZADEH
IPC: G06T17/00
Filed: 2020-01-03
Abstract: A method of preparing a surface crack profile by detecting a first crack 202 in a surface 204 of a component, measuring a first set of crack characteristics such as length 208, mouth 210 or face boundary 212a, 212b of the first crack, deriving a surface model 220 of the first crack, and deriving a three-dimensional (3D) crack profile 222 based on the surface model and the first set of data. Also claimed is a method of, at a user device, detecting a first crack in a surface of a component, transmitting data relating to the detected first crack to a remote device, and receiving a three-dimensional crack profile from the remote device. A corresponding method at the remote computing device is also claimed of deriving a surface model of the first crack and deriving a three-dimensional crack profile based on the surface model and the first set of data, and transmitting the profile to the user device.
Patent GB-2596269-A (GB)
Title: Article and method of making the same
Inventor: ISABEL ROSE HEPWORTH
IPC: D02G3/44
Filed: 2020-04-20
Abstract: An article 100 comprises a base 101 with opposed surfaces 103, 105. The article 100 includes a plurality of sensing components 107a, b, at least one of which has first and second conductive regions 109, 111, provided on surfaces 103, 105 respectively, and an electrical pathway 113 connecting the areas 109, 111. The article 100 is separable into a plurality of separate articles 100a, b, each including at least one sensing component 107a, b. The articles 100a, b may be incorporated into a garment (300, fig 15). The first conductive region 109 of a sensing component 107 may form electrodes for monitoring activity, such as heart rate, respiration, hydration or other biosignals of a wearer, and the second region 111 may form a terminal for electrically connecting to an electronics module. The base 101 may include drawthread for facilitating separation of the article 100 into the separate articles 100a, b.
Patent GB-2587447-A (GB)
Title: Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing program
Inventor: Yuki Kawama
IPC: G06F13/42
Filed: 2020-04-23
Abstract: A storage section stores a first communication program that controls communication by a first communication section, a second communication program that controls communication by a second communication section, a first processing program and a second processing program that causes an associated communication program to transmit data on which a determined process has been performed, and correspondence information including a first identifier indicative of a first corresponding communication program associated with the first processing program and a second identifier indicative of a second corresponding communication program associated with the second processing program. A processing section determines the first corresponding communication program, sets in the correspondence information an identifier indicative of the determined first corresponding communication program as the first identifier, determines the second corresponding communication program, and sets in the correspondence information an identifier indicative of the determined second corresponding communication program as the second identifier.
Patent GB-2581913-A (GB)
Title: Access control in microservice architectures
Inventor: OLGIERD STANISLAW PIECZUL
IPC: H04L29/06
Filed: 2018-10-18
Abstract: A method, system and computer program product relating to an application server operable to manage a microservice-based application, i.e. app, on behalf of clients, the clients being available for use by system actors who may be, for example, end users, bots, developers or other apps. A permissions validator is used to compute effective permissions in response to client requests. The requests are granted or denied conditional on the effective permissions being at least a subset of the permissions required to be given by any of the app's microservices that are needed for the resource being requested. The effective permissions are computed from an intersection of a set of actor permissions, a set of client permissions and a set of resource permissions.
Patent GB-2584032-A (GB)
Title: Golf club heads comprising a comprising a thermoplastic composite material
Inventor: Clayson Spackman
IPC: A63B53/04
Filed: 2019-01-18
Abstract: A golf club head includes a front body and a rear body coupled to the front body to define a hollow cavity therebetween. The front body includes a strike face that defines a ball striking surface, a hosel, and a frame that at least partially surrounds the strikeface and extends rearward from a perimeter of the strikeface away from the ball striking surface. The strike face and frame are formed from a thermoplastic composite comprising a thermoplastic polymer having a plurality of discontinuous fibers embedded therein. Each of the plurality of discontinuous fibers have a length of less than about 40 mm, and between a center of the strike face and the hosel, greater than about 50% of the plurality of discontinuous fibers are aligned within about 30 degrees of parallel to a horizontal axis extending from the center of the strike face to the hosel.
Patent GB-2597779-A (GB)
Title: Resource scheduling in multi-hop network
Inventor: MILOS TESANOVIC
IPC: H04W84/18
Filed: 2020-08-05
Abstract: A resource scheduling method comprises, in a network with a first node being a parent node to a second node and a third node being a parent to the first node, determining by the first node that a quality of service (QoS) reduction has occurred or is likely to occur on a link between the first node and the second node and/or a channel on a link between the first node and the second node. The first node transmits information based on the determined/anticipated QoS reduction to the third node. A further method comprises performing the above method’s steps and further determining, by the second or third node (or both), an action for mitigating the QoS reduction. The mitigation of QoS reduction may include; modifying existing logical channel prioritisation (LCP) parameters for uplink data transfer from the first node, providing reserved resources for allowing scheduling without any requests from the first node, limiting certain grants to certain logical channels (LCHs), re-routing received data or imposing restrictions on a node. The nodes may be part of a multi-hop integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network.
Patent GB-2588326-A (GB)
Title: Assembly and maintenance of subsea fluid storage units
Inventor: MORTEN SAETERDAL
IPC: F17C1/00
Filed: 2018-07-09
Abstract: A method of assembling a subsea fluid storage unit 10 comprising: lowering a lower housing 16 to a subsea location; lowering an inner tank 12; placing the inner tank into the lower housing; lowering an upper housing 14; and, after the inner tank has been placed in the lower housing, bringing together the upper and lower housing parts to surround the inner tank. The upper and lower housing parts may overlap telescopically. An open top of the lower housing may be closed by a rigid top panel 18 of the inner tank 12 being supported on the sidewall 40 of the lower housing. Preferably, filling the inner tank with fluid results in it expanding into the lower housing. Preferably, the housing is shaped 38 to trap fluid leaking from the inner tank. There is also a method of repairing a subsea fluid storage unit comprising: removing an upper housing from a lower housing; removing the inner tank from the lower housing; replacing the inner tank or placing another inner tank into the lower housing; and reassembling the housing. A subsea storage unit and methods of use are described.
Patent GB-2603130-A (GB)
Title: Flushing pump
Inventor: CHU WANG
IPC: A61M1/00
Filed: 2021-01-25
Abstract: A flushing pump comprising a pump for drawing fluid from a reservoir and expelling the drawn fluid from a fluid outlet. The pump comprises a processor (16) to control the operation of the pump and a remote controller connection port. The remote controller connection port (40) comprises an output system connection point (41), an input system connection point (42), a debugging connection point (43) and a ground connection point (44) held at a reference voltage level. The processor outputs diagnostic information to the output system connection point in response to the debugging connection point receiving a signal at the reference voltage level. A method of servicing the flushing pump is also provided.
Patent GB-2594587-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus, systems and methods for oil and gas operations
Inventor: IAN DONALD
IPC: E21B43/017
Filed: 2021-04-14
Abstract: The invention relates generally to flow control across manifolds. A subsea oil and gas installation has a production system with two production pipelines (fig. 2A, A &B), a first manifold 116, 118, 120, 122 in communication with a first of the pipelines, the manifold having a fluid access interface and a flowline connector, a second manifold 124, 126, 128, 130 in communication with the second pipeline and fluidly coupled to the first manifold by a flowline 132a-d coupled at one end to the flowline connector of the first manifold, and removable module 138, 140 connected to the fluid access interface of the first manifold for receiving production fluid, wherein the removable module is operable to selectively route the production fluid into the first and/or second production pipeline. Also claimed are a manifold having first flow path between a flow access point and a main bore, and a second flow path
Patent GB-2599000-A (GB)
Title: Measuring speed using a camera
Inventor: SAMUEL GERARD BAILEY
IPC: G08G1/054
Filed: 2021-08-04
Abstract: A method of determining the speed of a vehicle in a video sequence comprises determining the time elapsed between a first wheel of the vehicle reaching a reference position in a first image and a second wheel of the vehicle reading the reference position in a second frame, and then calculating the speed of the vehicle using knowledge of the distance between the wheels of the vehicle, the wheelbase, and measuring the time between frame captures 1, 3. The position of the wheels can be tracked across multiple frames in the video sequence. The time the first and/or second wheel passes the reference position can be determined via interpolation, such as liner interpolation, based on the position of the wheel in images where the wheel is either side of the position. The location of the wheels in the images can be determined using a neural network. The wheelbase can be determined from reading the license plate 5 of the vehicle and querying a vehicle information database, or is pre-programmed into the system, or is determined by recognition of the vehicle make and model from the image.
Patent GB-2618297-A (GB)
Title: Diamond electrode
Inventor: JOSHUA JAMES TULLY
IPC: C25B11/043
Filed: 2021-08-26
Abstract: An electrode formed from boron doped diamond (BDD), the electrode having a total solution accessible electrode area comprising at least 60% diamond stabilised non-diamond carbon. A high level of sp2 bonded surface carbon aid the production of disinfection species. The electrode may be used for electrochemical ozone production (EOP). A method of forming the electrode is described (figure 2), the method comprising providing boron doped diamond and applying a surface modification process to form a total solution accessible electrode area comprising at least 60% diamond stabilised non-diamond carbon.
Patent GB-2601226-A (GB)
Title: Method for the preparation of water soluble eggshell membrane derived peptides
Inventor: PAUL BARHAM
IPC: C12P21/00
Filed: 2021-10-01
Abstract: A method for preparing water soluble peptides from eggshell membrane (ESM) comprising providing an at least 20% w/v mixture of eggshell membrane and an aqueous solution of a strong base (e.g. sodium hydroxide) having a pH of at least 13; incubating the mixture at a temperature of about 110oC to 130oC and at a pressure of at least 150kPa for about 10 to 30 minutes; separating insoluble residues from the peptide solution and neutralising the solution. The neutralised solution may be diluted or filtered to remove cellular organisms. Further provided are compositions comprising the water soluble eggshell membrane peptides obtained from the method and the use of the same in therapeutic, nutritional and cosmetic applications. The water soluble eggshell membrane peptides obtained from the method may also be used in in vitro biological contexts, e.g. cell culture.
Patent GB-2613794-A (GB)
Title: Power semiconductor module
Inventor: YUN LI
IPC: H05K7/02
Filed: 2021-12-14
Abstract: A power semiconductor integrated circuit module 100 comprises first (Fig. 2: 110) and second (Fig. 2: 120) half-bridge switches arranged between opposing first and second substrates and electrically connected in parallel between DC positive 15 and negative 14/16 power input terminals. The first half-bridge switch comprises a first high side device (Fig. 2: 112), a first low side device (Fig. 2: 116) and a first output terminal (AC1) 13 10, and the second half-bridge switch comprises a second high side device (Fig. 2: 122), a second low side device (Fig. 2: 126) and a second output terminal (AC2) 12. The first substrate comprises a first insulating layer 20 with a first patterned conductive layer 201-215 arranged on the surface facing the half-bridge switches; the second substrate comprises a second insulating layer (Fig. 8: 30) with a second patterned conductive layer (Fig. 8: 301-303) arranged on a surface facing the half-bridge switches. The first patterned conductive layer comprises a first conductive track (Fig. 7: 205 which electrically connects high side terminals of the first and second high side devices to the DC positive power terminal; and the second patterned conductive layer comprises a second conductive track (Fig. 8: 301) which electrically connects, via conductive shims, low side terminals of the first and second low side devices to the DC negative power terminal. The module may comprise one phase of an IGBT-based 3-phase dual inverter circuit in electric/hybrid vehicle (EV/HEV) applications, the two AC outputs driving a generator motor and a traction motor. Plural power modules may be stacked between coolers to form a stack unit. Slots (Fig. 9: 310, 320) in the conductive tracks (Fig. 9: 301-303) allow control of the current flow, enabling a parasitic inductance of commutation loops to be reduced.
Patent GB-2603862-A (GB)
Title: Lighting device
Inventor: STEFAN KARLE
IPC: G03B15/06
Filed: 2022-02-14
Abstract: A lighting device 1, e.g. a softbox, comprises a self-supporting funnel-shaped reflector 3 having a proximal edge 5 and a distal edge 7. The circumferential length at the proximal edge is smaller than that at the distal edge. The reflector is formed of a thermoplastic wall material 19. The reflector has at least one corner line 17 extending between the proximal and distal edges formed by thermoplastic deformation of the wall material. The reflector may have a diffuser fixed to the distal edge. The inner surface may be reflective, with the inner wall material having an average spectral reflectance of higher than 0.5 in a wavelength range between 450-650nm. The outer surface may be light absorbing, with an of absorbance greater than 0.3. The wall material may have a flexural rigidity of between 1.0x10-3-1.0x10^3 N.mm. The reflector may be formed of one or more contiguous pieces of wall material, wherein on one piece, opposite ends may connect by a seam or adhesive 37 and another pair of opposite ends provide the proximal and distal edges.
Patent GB-2615821-A (GB)
Title: Head lifter bar
Inventor: Nirmal Weerasekara
IPC: B02C17/22
Filed: 2022-02-22
Abstract: A head lifter bar 10a, for mounting on an end of a grinding mill, defines a longitudinal axis 12 extending between a periphery end 14a and a hub end 16a, and a vertical plane 18 extending through horizontal plane 20 and longitudinal axis 12. Bar 10a has a rear wall 24a an upper surface 26a and a front wall 28. A profiled surface 30a extends between upper surface 26a and an upper portion of front wall 28, with profiled surface 30a defining a central portion 36 oriented at an acute angle to the vertical plane 18, and with periphery end portion 14a extending from central portion 36 to peripherial end 14a. Hub end portion 16a extends from central portion 36 to hub end 16a and the periphery end portion 14a is recessed from the central 36 portion such that upper surface 26a is narrower at the periphery end 14a than at the central portion 36. A range of profiles may be provided (also see Figures 2E, 3E, 4E, 5E, 6E & 7E). Angles of orientation between the upper surface of the periphery end or the hub end to the horizontal plane may be between 3 to 9 degrees and the periphery end 14a accounts for 15-355 of the total length of bar 10a. An associated grinding mill with a rotatable shell and end walls coupled to opposing sides thereof, with bars 10a radially mounted on an inner surface is also disclosed (see Fig 8).
Patent GB-2601667-A (GB)
Title: Combination therapy to achieve enhanced antimicrobial activity
Inventor: JAMES HEDRICK
IPC: C08L69/00
Filed: 2020-07-15
Abstract: Techniques regarding enhancing antimicrobial activity of antirheumatic agents by combination therapy are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can regard a chemical composition comprising a polycarbonate polymer functionalized with a guanidinium functional group. The chemical composition can also comprise an antirheumatic agent, and the polycarbonate polymer can enhance an antimicrobial activity of the antirheumatic agent.