baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2259586-A (GB)
Title: Method of and system for generating teaching data for robots
Inventor: KANEKO MASAKATSU
IPC: G05B19/425
Filed: 1992-09-10
Abstract: A plurality of virtual target points are disposed in the vicinity of each of target points allowable on design, where a tool center point of a robot is to be positioned. The virtual target points and the original target point are combined into "target points taken in a broad sense". Each of the target points taken in the broad sense is given as a point which has been confirmed as a tool-attainable point on an off-line teaching apparatus. When a necessary correction is made on-line to teaching data generated by the off-line teaching apparatus and include as data the target points taken in the broad sense, an operator can select a suitable point from the target points taken in the broad sense and carry out a process of correcting the teaching data, regarding the suitable point as being a starting point. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2260340-A (GB)
Title: Forming electrodes on diamond by plasma treating the diamond with inert gases
Inventor: NISHIMURA KOZO
IPC: H01L21/28
Filed: 1992-10-07
Abstract: A method of forming electrodes on diamond comprising the steps of forming a mask pattern on diamond (as a crystal) or diamond film deposited by CVD (Fig 1b); performing a treatment of the diamond surface by a plasma of chemically inert gases; forming an electrode film on the whole surface of the specimen (Fig 1c); and removing the mask, thereby forming a specified pattern on the electrodes (Fig 1d). This treatment of the diamond provides electrodes for electronic devices (eg heat sinks, diodes, transistors) having high adhesion to diamond and diamond film The electrode pattern may be formed by a photolithography technique and may comprise a pattern of Au/Ti. The chemically inert gas may be He, Ne, Av, Kv, Xe or N2. During the plasma processing a bias voltage (DC or AC) may be applied to the sample holder to enhance the cleaning effect. In an example the chamber is evacuated to approximately 10<-6> Torr and the inert gas is supplied at a flow rate of 10cc/min at a gas pressure of 2m Torr. After the step of forming the electrode the composite material may be heat treated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2269113-A (GB)
Title: Pneumatic filling for toy
Inventor: POTTER SHANE
IPC: A63H3/06
Filed: 1992-11-13
Abstract: A cuddly toy comprises a conventional soft toy exterior and an interior which is a pneumatic bladder.
Patent GB-2263186-A (GB)
Title: Educational toy.
Inventor: CHEUNG WING KEUNG
IPC: G09B19/02
Filed: 1993-01-12
Abstract: An educational toy includes a sensor (12) having an array of sensing points and a sensor sheet having a flexible face against which an object whose shape is to be recognised is placed, the object providing a change in electrical characteristics at points of the array which are contacted by the object, output means (16) for detecting points whose electrical characteristics have been altered, memory means (18) for comparing the relative positions of the points in such an array with information stored in memory to determine to which of the memorised set of objects the changed characteristics correspond and means (20-24) for providing an output in a child recognisable manner associated with the shape placed on the sensor sheet. The sensor may take the form of first and second conductive layers having a plurality of independently conductive regions such that placement of an object on the sensor changes the conductive characteristics of the sensing points. The sensor may further include a middle layer of insulating material having a number of openings corresponding to the sensing points, for use with an object (a tile, 70-74) having a plurality of pegs (80, 81, 82). The output means may provide a sound output in the form of an oral identification of the object placed on the sensor; alternatively it may produce a sound effect associated with the object. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274257-A (GB)
Title: Method of preparing and welding zinc coated steel
Inventor: WILLIAMS STEWART WYNN
IPC: B23K20/12
Filed: 1993-01-19
Abstract: A zinc coated steel work piece 4 is prepared for welding by scanning with laser radiation 2, to remove the zinc coating layer. The laser has a wavelength in the range of 150 nanometres to 20 micrometres, at a fluence of 0.1 to 100 Joules per square centimetre, with a pulse length in the range of 1 nanosecond to 10 microseconds and for a minimum of 1 pulse, preferably at least 10 pulses, at each laser radiation impact point on the surface. The laser is preferably an eximer laser. The prepared surface of the work piece can then be welded to a further work piece by resistance spot welding, arc welding, friction welding or laser welding. For laser welding a laser is used, preferably operating at a power of substantially 750 watts at a scan rate of substantially 240 millimetres per minute in an atmosphere of nitrogen. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276640-A (GB)
Title: W.C. cistern
Inventor: SOMERFIELD ALAN DAVID
IPC: E03D1/14
Filed: 1993-03-30
Abstract: An improvement in the W.C. cistern described in GB 2205595 includes first and second devices to initiate a discharge of the vessel by syphonic action. Operation of the first such device initiates a discharge which continues until the cistern is empty, but operation of the second such device both initiates a discharge and actuates a means to halt that discharge before the cistern is empty. The two devices may each be in the form of buttons (27, 39), depression of which squeezes bellows (25, 26). After operation of the second device, discharge may be halted by breaking the syphonic action when the liquid in the cistern falls to a certain level. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266422-A (GB)
Title: Attenuators
Inventor: KAYAMA KOJI
IPC: H04B1/18
Filed: 1993-04-14
Abstract: In an attenuator to be used at the front end of a radio receiver, the input signal is attenuated by a first control signal from 8, 9 applied to a first attenuating element e.g. a PIN diode D2. As the attenuation increases, the input impedance of the attenuator also rises causing various problems such as increase in intermodulation, mismatch with the following RF tuning circuit 2 and attenuation of input signal to other receivers sharing the same antenna 1. A second control voltage applied to a shunt attenuating element D1 has the effect of reducing input impedance which counteracts the increase caused by D2. Diodes D1, D2 may be replaced by other semiconductor devices or relays. The attenuator may form part of an automatic gain control arrangement. Control voltages may be applied directly from the switch 9 with the CPU not included. A modified attenuator may include two PIN diodes with respective bypass paths connected back to back in the signal path. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2266622-A (GB)
Title: Diamond film electronic devices
Inventor: KATO RIE
IPC: H01L37/00
Filed: 1993-04-16
Abstract: A pair of electrodes 3 are first formed on a substrate 1. Subsequently, an undoped diamond film 2 is selectively deposited between the above electrodes. A B-doped diamond film 4 is then selectively formed on both the insulating diamond film and pan of each electrode. The substrate may be contained in a container provided with an opening portion from which only the B-doped diamond film is exposed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277485-A (GB)
Title: Producing colour-printed articles of clothing
Inventor: BOFFIN WILLIAM PETER
IPC: D06P5/00
Filed: 1993-04-29
Abstract: A process for producing a colour-printed article of clothing such as a T-shirt comprises placing behind a pre-printed panel of the T-shirt a backing board covered with a tacky peelable adhesive, and pressing the material of the panel into contact with the adhesive to hold the panel in a dimensionally stable condition while it is coloured with felt-tipped pens. The ink of the felt-tipped pens can subsequently be heat-set by the application of heat from a domestic flat iron. The invention also provides a kit of parts for carrying out the above process, the backing board being sold covered with a peelable protective sheet and optionally used in the packaging of the garment.
Patent GB-2267018-A (GB)
Title: Binary data signal transmission and remote control
Inventor: PAYNE KENNETH
IPC: H04B3/54
Filed: 1993-05-13
Abstract: A system for detecting the presence of each of two states in a noisy asynchronous binary data signal (42), wherein the incoming signal is sampled (at 46) at a plurality (N) of points (48) in a plurality (M) of windows (54), successive groups of the M x N sample values are sampled to detect the binary states appertaining to the groups and, when correct different states are detected (at 56), a binary gating signal is aligned (by 50) with the detected groups and subsequent sampling is effected in synchronism with the gating signal. The system is applicable to remote telemetry, for example remote control of a utility meter, e.g. over power lines, and could control operation of fluid valves or of electricity supply. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2268742-A (GB)
Title: Tetrahydrofuran bronchodilators
Inventor: AUVIN SERGE
IPC: A61K31/443
Filed: 1993-07-15
Abstract: Tetrahydrofuran derivatives I, in racemic or enantiomeric form,   <IMAGE> (n = 1 to 10, R = C1-C10 alkyl, heteroaryl, or a group of the formula   <IMAGE> in which each of R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently represents H, halogen, C1-C5 alkoxy or C1-C5 alkylsulphonyl) and salts thereof are agonists of  beta -adrenergic receptors, and may thus be useful as bronchodilators.
Patent GB-2270420-A (GB)
Title: Compensation regions in bicmos devices
Inventor: MATTHEWS JAMES A
IPC: H01L21/02
Filed: 1993-09-30
Abstract: In a process for fabricating an integrated circuit (IC) by simultaneously forming field-effect transistors (FETs) and bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) in a semiconductor substrate, a method of reducing the junction capacitance of said FETs (30, 40) comprising the steps of: (a) defining active regions for said BJTs and FETs in said substrate; (b) forming a gate oxide over said substrate; (c) forming gate members of said FETs above said gate oxide; (d) implanting an impurity into said substrate to form well compensation regions (45, 46) therein, said well compensation regions being self-aligned to the source and drain regions (54, 53) said FETs and acting to reduce said junction capacitance in said IC. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283008-A (GB)
Title: Insulating box
Inventor: TANIGUCHI YOSHIKAZU
IPC: B65D5/56
Filed: 1993-10-12
Abstract: An insulating box comprises: a box-shaped body 3 formed by superposing the individual corners 9 of a generally rectangular paper member, which has at least its inner face formed with a synthetic resin layer; an insulating sheet 5 covering at least the bottom board 17 of the body and the inner faces of opposed side boards 21 which have no folded corner superposed; and an inner frame 7 fitted in the body 3 covered with the insulating sheet. Thus, gaps are formed between the body 3 and the inner frame 7. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272077-A (GB)
Title: An adaptive control system
Inventor: BOCK OTMAR
IPC: G05B13/02
Filed: 1993-10-14
Abstract: An adaptive control system for mechanical and dynamic systems being transferred from an initial to a desired final state by control devices comprises an adaptive controller (e.g. in the form of an artificial neural network) for providing scaling parameters p, from inputs to the controller of coordinates for desired final and initial states. The parameters are fed to a function generator which provides prototypical time functions scaled by those parameters, those signals being provided directly via connections to the control devices which generate the required control signals. The adaptive control system may be used for a robotic manipulator having a number of rigid links interconnected by joints, the links being moveable by actuators. The manipulators Kinematics and Dynamics, including joint interaction effects, are taken into account by this adaptive control system and it controls a manipulators movements without the need for any real-time feedback circuitry or any explicit calculations of inverse kinematics or inverse dynamics. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-935993-A (GB)
Abstract: 935,993. Liquid fuel burners. WEBASTOWERK G.m.b.H. July 23, 1962 [Oct. 5, 1961], No. 28287/62. Classes 75 (1) and 75 (3). A liquid fuel heating device for a vehicle comprises a pipe 1 supplying fuel and air and extending from a displacement type blower to an annular part 2 of a combustion chamber, a deflector or constriction on the discharge end of the pipe 1 and a wire igniting element 6 mounted on a carrier 7 threadedly mounted in the space enclosed by the annular chamber 2. The pipe 1 is preferably tangential to the outer casing 3 of the annular chamber and projects thereinto. The deflector may be a lip on the pipe 1 or a separate part on a milling of the casing 3. The inner casing 4 of the annular chamber 2 is threadedly mounted at one end to the outer casing 3 and contains lateral openings 9 and an apertured wall 10 at the other end where the annular part 2 of the combustion chamber opens into a tubular part 8 thereof. A bridge-like heat-conserving element 12 having a central aperture 13 is mounted on the inner end of the inner casing 4.
Patent GB-2274829-A (GB)
Title: Tape cassettes:tape pressing
Inventor: SCHAEFFER NORBERT
IPC: G11B23/087
Filed: 1994-02-03
Abstract: In a cassette, a tape pressing device for tape 10 in particular a magnetic tape, has a pressure element 16 carried on a support element 23. When a scanning head 20 comes to bear on the tape a deflection of the device takes place, and pressing against the tape is effected automatically by two resilient arms extending from element 16. This pressing ends automatically when the scanning head 20 is no longer in bearing contact. The pressing may take place directly on the tape rear side or tape front side, or else indirectly on the tape front side or the tape rear side or both sides simultaneously. Pressing and/or antifriction and/or cleaning elements may also be arranged, at least partially, fixed in place with respect to the tape. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2274078-A (GB)
Title: Spray gun
Inventor: GREENE ROBERT HENRY
IPC: B05B5/053
Filed: 1992-08-12
Abstract: Electrostatic spray gun in which the electrical path is in part through the fluid to be sprayed, the spray nozzle at least and optionally the fluid container as a whole being insulating and electrical connection being made with the fluid prior to its emergence from the nozzle. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277588-A (GB)
Title: Surface topographic analysis
Inventor: KORNER KLAUS
IPC: G01B9/025
Filed: 1994-04-21
Abstract: A device for the topographic analysis of a surface 9 includes a laser 1 and a multiline reflecting diffraction grating 2 which is projected on to the surface 9 by a two-lens projection stage 4, with points A and A' being conjugate. A slit diaphragm 6 selects only the zeroth and first negative diffraction orders. A plane mirror 8 forms a virtual roof edge with the surface 9. The surface 9 is then projected back on to a holographic reflecting grating 10 which is arranged to diffract its first order to a CCD camera 12 connected to a personal computer. The grating 2 is stepped by one-quarter of the grating constant by an actuator 3 and the interference distributions on the surface 9 recorded and stored. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293759-A (GB)
Title: Bathplug assembly
Inventor: LAIDLER KEVIN OSWALD
IPC: A47K1/14
Filed: 1994-10-04
Abstract: A device which naturally floats in liquid or which when activated becomes such a device and is an integral part of or connected to a plug in a domestic bath or sink such that when there is excessive liquid the device applies a force to the plug or part of the plug so as to cause the plug to open or partially open thus releasing the excess liquid.
Patent GB-2305568-A (GB)
Title: Remote location monitoring
Inventor: THOMPSON ANDREW THOMAS
IPC: G01S5/14
Filed: 1995-09-25
Abstract: A location monitoring apparatus comprises a plurality of GPS mobile location monitoring units, one or more ground stations and a cellular telephone communications link between the mobile location monitoring unit and the ground station. Each ground station is arranged to receive location information from one or more of the mobile units corresponding to the location of that mobile unit. Each ground station is capable of identifying the location of the mobile units on a geographical map stored by the ground station or by a general geographical address system. Application is to monitoring vehicles' positions.
Patent GB-2307505-A (GB)
Title: Safety buckle cover for a car seat
Inventor: GODFREY BENJAMIN JAMES
IPC: A44B11/25
Filed: 1995-11-21
Abstract: A folded sheet plastic cover that fits over a car seat buckle and in so doing, due to a cover plate C, prevents the buckle release mechanism from being pressed with the use of fingers. A key or pen can pushed through the aperture D by the supervisor of the person who is strapped into the seat. In an emergency, a case of fire or accident, when panic may set in, the cover can be torn apart and will fracture at E. The removal of the buckle and straps is then normal.
Patent GB-2306514-A (GB)
Title: A needle break detector for a linker machine
Inventor: BINNELL GLYN
IPC: D05B69/36
Filed: 1996-10-22
Abstract: There is disclosed a linker machine having at least one set of points (11) on which knitted loops of fabrics or fabric parts (13, 14) to be joined are held in proximity and a needle (15) stitching the loops on the points together, and having a needle break detector comprising a feeler (23) resting on the needle shank (22) at a position such that during the reciprocating stitching cycle of the needle the feeler continuously rests on some part of the shank and in an alarm-off position and such that if the needle breaks the feeler is released to move to an alarm-on position in which it actuates an alarm and/or stop motion.
Patent GB-2306753-A (GB)
Title: Head drum assembly of video cassette recorder
Inventor: KIM KEUM-MO
IPC: G11B15/61
Filed: 1996-10-25
Abstract: A head drum assembly has two journal bearings 370a,b supported by a bearing housing 360 integral with a stationary lower drum 310. The bearing 370a,b support and lubricate a shaft 350 carrying a rotary upper drum 320. The inner surface of each bearing has two lubricating grooves 374 from which the lubricant flows into shaft/bearing clearances to form a film about the shaft. These grooves are fed with lubricant by way of further grooves 365 in the bearing housing. Communicating channels (372a,b,c, figure 4) convey the lubricant to the bearing grooves 374.
Patent GB-2302053-A (GB)
Title: Abrasive mixture supply system
Inventor: MILLER DONALD STUART
IPC: B24C7/00
Filed: 1995-04-28
Abstract: A conventional abrasive mixture pressurising system comprises a pressure vessel (15), a nozzle (13) connected to said compartment, an inlet (12) for fluid under pressure to drive the contents of the compartment to the nozzle and a supply of abrasive mixture. This is improved by dividing the pressure vessel interior by a flexible diaphragm (19) to define a compartment. This compartment can have its pressure controlled for various purposes - for example to create pressure surges for an immediate jet of abrasive mixture at the nozzle, or to suck in abrasive particles from a supply.
Patent GB-2309954-A (GB)
Title: Sleeve-like wrapper
Inventor: HUANG FU-CHUAN
IPC: B65D71/00
Filed: 1996-12-09
Abstract: A package film device for closely packaging two objects includes a sheet like film 1 having one edge 11 secured to the middle portion and having the other edge 12 secured to one end portion. The film may thus form two spaces 2 for receiving the objects and is arranged to form a partition 13 between the spaces for closely engaging with the outer peripheral surfaces of the objects. The film may shrink under heat in order to closely engage with and to hold the objects in place.
Patent GB-2309496-A (GB)
Title: Braking a motor vehicle
Inventor: BOYD ALFRED JAMES
IPC: B60T7/02
Filed: 1997-01-27
Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a first, mechanical braking system operated by a hand lever 3, and a second braking system, such as a hydraulic system operated by a foot pedal 11, the braking systems being coupled by means of, for example, an electromagnet 23 connected to the vehicle ignition 21 whereby the second braking system is actuated to apply the wheel brakes of the vehicle upon application of the mechanically operated braking system when the vehicle ignition is switched on. This greatly improves the braking efficiency of the vehicle. The second system may be pneumatically or electrically operated.
Patent GB-2323158-A (GB)
Title: Air-conditioning vehicles
Inventor: BARRAS ANDREW
IPC: B60H1/00
Filed: 1997-03-13
Abstract: A motor vehicle ventilation arrangement provides central vents 10, side vents 12, floor vents 14, demist vents 16 and side window vents 18. A housing with appropriate wall openings has a radiator, fans, and baffle arrangements which co-operate with partitions and which are operated from within the vehicle by a manually operable control 20. Selective movement of the latter results in movement of the baffles relative to the partitions, whereby the user can select to have either heated or cooling air through the central vents 10 when heated air is transmitted through the side vents 12 and floor vents 14. This facility is provided in addition to the other air control facilities conventionally required within the vehicle.
Patent GB-2315310-A (GB)
Title: Improving stress distribution in screwed connections
Inventor: LO CHI HUNG
IPC: F16B33/00
Filed: 1997-05-14
Abstract: In order to distribute stress evenly over all the screwthreads in a bolt-and-nut joint, both or either of the bolt and nut are made so that the bolt (95)(figure 7) has a bore (105) shaped so that the solid cross-section of the bolt (95) increases away from the engaging end of the bolt (95), and the nut (100)(figure 8) has an external surface (125) shaped so that the solid cross-section increases away from the engaging end of the nut (100). While the ideal shape is parabolic, tapered surfaces may be used. The threads of bolt and nut may be longitudinally interupted.
Patent GB-2328624-A (GB)
Title: A solvent recovery method and system
Inventor: FOLEY DIARMUID JAMES
IPC: B01D53/14
Filed: 1997-09-02
Abstract: A solvent recovery system (1) has a heat exchanger (2) and a receiver vessel (3). A two-phase fluid inlet (10) causes a centrifugal effect to take place within an inlet chamber (9) to cause preliminary separation of gases and liquids. The liquids concentrate around the periphery of the chamber (9), and the gases at the centre. There is direct heat transfer to the gases by injection of super-chilled liquid from the receiver tank (3) at the inlet (14). The recirculated liquid is disentrained at a dispersion plate (21). The initial phase separation helps to achieve a very high heat transfer rate in a falling film heat exchanger section (22). Heat exchange is additionally assisted by direct injection of super-chilled liquid.
Patent GB-2320801-A (GB)
Title: Assembling an electron gun for a CRT
Inventor: MORI KEIZO
IPC: H01J9/18
Filed: 1997-12-08
Abstract: A method and an apparatus for assembling an electron gun for a CRT are disclosed which prevent misalignment between a first grid and a second grid occurring when a joining process is performed and detect any residual deviation between the first grid and the second grid after joining to inhibit introduction of a defective product into a following assembly step. The apparatus includes a control unit which controls the operation of a first-grid locating mechanism in accordance with position data detected by a first-grid position data detection mechanism and position data detected by a second-grid position data detection mechanism to align the first grid and the second grid with each other (52, 53), after which the control unit controls the operation of the first-grid locating mechanism in accordance with deviation data detected by a deviation data detection mechanism to correct any residual misalignment between the first grid and the second grid (54, 55). The data detection mechanisms may each include a CCD camera.