baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2472931-A (GB)
Title: Polycrystalline ultra-hard material formed in a two stage high temperature and high pressure process
Inventor: FANG YI
IPC: B22F7/06
Filed: 2006-12-20
Abstract: A method and process for forming a polycrystalline ultra hard material involves placing a volume of precursor ultra-hard material adjacent a substrate containing a catalyst and subjecting the combination to a first high pressure/high temperature to cause the catalyst to melt and partially infiltrate the volume of ultra-hard material. A second high pressure/high temperature condition is then used to cause the catalyst to further infiltrate the volume of precursor ultra-hard material and promote intercrystalline bonding to form a fully sintered product. The second temperature used is higher than the first temperature.
Patent GB-2486748-A (GB)
Title: Autoinjector devices
Inventor: EATON MARK
IPC: A61M5/20
Filed: 2011-03-24
Abstract: An autoinjector device comprises an elongate housing (10) containing a syringe or cartridge (12) having an internal piston for expressing a dose from the syringe or cartridge. A drive mechanism includes a drive member (18) for engaging said piston and a drive spring (20) or the like acting on the drive member. A side-operated trigger arrangement includes a retention element (22) movably mounted in the housing from a retaining position in which the drive member is kept in a cocked condition, and a release position in which the drive member may more forwardly under the influence of the drive spring. An outer sleeve (24) is mounted on the housing movable between a position in which the retention element is prevented from moving to release said plunger, and a position in which said retention member is free to move. The outer sleeve includes a trigger wall portion (28) which may be depressed to move the retention element once the retention element (22) is free to move, thereby releasing the plunger.
Patent GB-2491557-A (GB)
Title: Paper packaging using crimped seals
Inventor: TILLEY MARK
IPC: B65B9/06
Filed: 2011-05-05
Abstract: A package 2 comprising a secondary packaging 4 defining a central cavity containing a plurality of primary packaged products 8, the package 2 comprising a folded layer of paper and having at least one mechanical seal at which plural plies of the layer of paper are mechanically crimped together, the mechanical crimping being the sole joining mechanism between the adjacent sealed plies. Also disclosed are a packaging apparatus and method for making such a package, both incorporating a form, fill and seal machine.
Patent GB-2482222-A (GB)
Title: Strap for sporting articles
Inventor: WALLER TOM
IPC: A44B11/04
Filed: 2011-06-03
Abstract: A strap for securing a sporting garment or article to a wearer's/user's body, the strap comprising a first portion comprising a tensioner end including a tensioner 3 having an attachment portion and a frame, the attachment portion being for attachment to the tensioner end. The strap further comprises a second portion 4 having indicia 32 provided along at least a part of its length. In use, the second portion passes through the tensioner and the tensioner frame defines a window 33 in which at least one of the indicia on the second portion is visible. The indicia may be visible or tactile indicia, or numerical. The tensioner or first portion may comprise an indicator, such as an arrow shape 34, to indicate a position for a desired indicium. The second portion may comprise a clip end, the clip end terminating at a clip 6.
Patent GB-2492113-A (GB)
Title: An aerated shower head having inner and outer pressurised air inlets
Inventor: HONEYANDS PETER JAMES
IPC: B05B1/34
Filed: 2011-06-22
Abstract: A shower head 10G comprises a mixing chamber 24 having an inner air inlet 70 suitable for connection to a supply of pressurised air, a water inlet 68 surrounding the inner air inlet and suitable for connection to a supply of pressurised water, and an outer air inlet 18 surrounding the water inlet suitable for connection to a supply of pressurised air, the mixing chamber further having an outlet 32, the air breaks up the water into droplets in use and both leave the outlet to form a shower of droplets. The air inlets may be arranged to form a vortex in the mixing chamber. A rotatable control knob 78 may be provided to throttle the air flow within the inner inlet. The water inlet and the outer air inlet are ideally annular. The inner and outer air inlets and the water inlet are ideally arranged concentrically and coaxially. Individual water droplets may converge towards the mean trajectory (of droplets leaving) the outlet.
Patent GB-2492768-A (GB)
Title: A catapult
Inventor: PENNING ADAM HEATHCOTE
IPC: F41B3/02
Filed: 2011-07-11
Abstract: A catapult (2) comprises a handle (4), a pair of arms (6), a pouch (8), elastic material (10) connecting the pouch (8) to the arms (6), and securing means (12) which secures the elastic material (10) to the arms (6). The length of the elastic material (10) from ends (14) of the arms (6) to the pouch (8) is able to be adjusted in order to vary the firing distance of the catapult (2). The elastic material (10) extends along the arms (6) and inside the arms (6) with the securing means (12) comprising a slot (16) which extends along each one of the arms (6) and which has an open mouth (18) extending along a side (20) of the arm (6) which faces a user during firing of the catapult (2), a plurality of securing formations (22) extending along the length of the slot (16), and a securing member (24) which is attached to an end portion (26) of the elastic material (10) and which is locatable in a chosen one of the securing formations (22) and thereby to adjust the length of the elastic material (10).
Patent GB-2492796-A (GB)
Title: Communication apparatus allowing a secondary user the use of a communication capability until a primary user appearance is predicted
Inventor: ROSIK CHRISTOPHE
IPC: H04W16/04
Filed: 2011-07-12
Abstract: A communication apparatus (3) can communicate with user apparatus (5) via a first communication capability, such as a first spectrum band, provided by a communication network and also as a secondary user (an opportunistic user) via a second communication capability allocated to a primary user (1). The communication apparatus (3) predicts the appearance of the primary user on the second communication capability and defines predictive eviction decisions for evicting user apparatus from the second communication capability using the prediction data to enable control of communication resources. The communication apparatus may be a base station (3) communicating with user equipment (5) in a cellular communication network.
Patent GB-2479335-A (GB)
Title: Surface characteristic determining apparatus
Inventor: JIANG XIANGQIAN
IPC: G01B9/02
Filed: 2010-01-15
Abstract: A wavelength selector (5) selects a wavelength of a broadband light source (4). A light director (BS1, BS2) directs light from the wavelength selector along a measurement path towards a region of a sample surface and along a reference path towards a reference surface,such that light reflected by the region of the sample surface and light reflected by the reference surface interfere to produce an interferogram. A controller (20) controls the wavelength selector to change the wavelength selected by the wavelength selector. A recorder (63) records successive images,each image representing the interferogram produced by a respective one of the wavelengths selected by the wavelength selector. A data processor (18, 180) processes the recorded images to produce at least one of a surface profile and a surface height map of at least a part of the sample surface. The reference path may be controlled to compensate for environmental effects such as vibration, thermal effects and air turbulence. The data processor may use a graphics processing unit to enable pixel data to be processed in parallel.
Patent GB-2493765-A (GB)
Title: A method of producing a greetings card
Inventor: HAWKINS LEE WILLIAM
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2011-08-18
Abstract: A method of, and system for, producing a greetings card comprises capturing handwriting as a digital image, processing the digital image to extract the handwriting, combining the processed image with one of a number of images for the greeting card, and controlling the display of the combined image on a user device or the printing of the combined image. The system may include a networked server arrangement wherein the server controls the digital processing of the image and display and printing and the extraction may include applying a smoothing filter, e.g. Gaussion filter, to the digitised image, generating a colour or luminance histogram, applying thresholding to distinguish the background and deleting all the pixels that fall within the background threshold.
Patent GB-2480961-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus and method for evaluating a wellbore, in particular a casing thereof
Inventor: JAHANGIR MOHAMMED
IPC: E21B47/12
Filed: 2009-04-02
Abstract: The apparatus for evaluating a wellbore (5) while drilling comprises a logging tool (11) held on a drill string (1) and is adapted to obtain data from the wellbore (5) while moving the drill string (1) including the logging tool (11) uphole and out of the wellbore (5). The logging tool (11) includes a memory (23) for storing obtained data and an onboard power supply battery (25). A computer (31) being positioned at a surface level of the wellbore (5) is adapted to obtain the data from the memory (23) when the logging tool (11) is also positioned at the surface level. The logging tool (11) is adapted to perform a minimum power-consuming sleep mode with a data obtaining and storing function being disabled and the computer (31) is adapted to transmit a wake-up signal downhole to enable the data obtaining and storing function of the logging tool (11) just prior to tripping out the drill string (1) from the wellbore (5). The wake-up signal preferably is a mud pulse signal sent through the drilling fluid used when drilling the wellbore (5).
Patent GB-2496424-A (GB)
Title: Roofing system comprising components with a projection and co-operating rebate.
Inventor: CULLEN DOUGLAS WILSON
IPC: E04B1/26
Filed: 2011-11-11
Abstract: The system comprises first and second roofing components where the first component comprises a rebate and the second component comprises a projection that corresponds to the said rebate. The components are designed such that the projection abuts against the rebate in use. In various embodiments of the invention the respective first and second components are: i) a floor cassette and a roof support; ii) a spandrel and a roof panel; iii) a spandrel and a floor cassette and iv) a roof panel component and a roof panel component. In the first embodiment the floor cassette 27 may have a number of wall plates 86a and 86b which include at least one but preferably several rebates 88 which receive the projections 94 made by a series of rafters 90 in a roof support. The roofing system may comprise a pair of spandrels. Also claimed is a method of locating the projection within a rebate and the rebate supporting the weight of the first component at the abutment point of the projection on the rebate. The rebate may be tapered or arcuate.
Patent GB-2498784-A (GB)
Title: Method of controlling an internal combustion engine which allows for the delay between the fuel injection and the time at which the fuel burns
Inventor: CONTE GIUSEPPE
IPC: F02D41/40
Filed: 2012-01-27
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of controlling an internal combustion engine. The method estimates a heat release due to combustion of a quantity of fuel injected in a cylinder of the engine by a fuel injector in an injection pulse. The estimation provides for calculating a heat release rate as a function of a derivative of the energy of the fuel injected quantity. The derivative of the energy of the fuel injected is calculated according to an expression which includes an index representing a delay between the time at which a certain portion of the fuel is injected and the time at which it actually burns. The heat release rate is then integrated in order to estimate the total heat release of the injection pulse and the fuel injection amount and timing are controlled accordingly.
Patent GB-2500606-A (GB)
Title: Wall-mountable hand dryer
Inventor: GAMMACK PETER DAVID
IPC: A47K10/48
Filed: 2012-03-26
Abstract: The invention is a wall-mountable hand dryer 100 of the type which uses an air-knife to wipe the water from a user's hand. The hand dryer is has a maximum depth X, front-to-back, of less than 150mm when it is surface-mounted upon the wall. The dryer has a projecting part which projects outwardly either from the wall or from a rear part of the dryer, and the air-knife is directed downwardly onto a user's hand as it is passed lengthwise underneath the projecting part of the dryer. The air knife is discharged through one or more discharge apertures 17 which are positioned towards the front of the projecting part, spaced at least 75mm from the wall or from the rear part of the dryer. Preferably, the maximum depth is 101.6mm (4 inches) or less, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 (ADA), without need to recess the hand dryer. The discharge apertures may be arranged in a V-shaped configuration. Preferably, the air-knife is discharged at a speed of at least 80m/s. The dryer may comprise two slots 15, 17 or sets of air holes for discharging two respective, separate air knives: one air knife for each hand.
Patent GB-2487695-A (GB)
Title: A drilling fluid test device having a filter cleaning system.
Inventor: TEHRANI MOSTAFA AHMADI
IPC: B01D39/10
Filed: 2008-04-25
Abstract: A drilling fluid test device 100 including a cell body 101 having a fluid inlet 109 configured to provide a test fluid, a filtrate outlet 111 configured to discharge a filtrate, and a fluid outlet 110 configured to discharge the fluid. The drilling fluid test device also having a non-porous filter medium 107 disposed in the cell body, a cleaning system disposed in the cell body including exposing the filter medium to a washing fluid to back-flush the filter, and agitating the washing fluid with an ultrasonifier probe 117 to break up solids disposed on the filter medium. The filter medium may be a re-usable metallic plate.
Patent GB-2502775-A (GB)
Title: Selecting routes between nodes in a network based on node processing gain and lifetime
Inventor: JIN YICHAO
IPC: H04L47/41
Filed: 2012-05-31
Abstract: A marginal processing gain is calculated to determine the best communication link, from a selection of candidate links, to use for a communication from a first node to a second node in a multi-node communications network. The marginal processing gain is the difference between a node processing gain with the potential link added to the node and the node processing gain without the link added. The processing gain is the difference between the total input traffic and output traffic at a node, divided by the total input traffic. The marginal processing gain is used as part of an objective function which also includes a local lifetime gain using a local lifetime defined as the minimum value out of all nodes of the residual energy at a node divided by its total energy consumption. Applications include sensor networks.
Patent GB-2491708-A (GB)
Title: Child safety seat with headrest and panel to cover a portion of a backrest when the headrest is adjusted
Inventor: HUTCHINSON JAMES M F
IPC: B60N2/28
Filed: 2012-06-06
Abstract: A child safety seat includes a seat shell 102 having a backrest portion 112 with a front surface having a slot, a headrest 104 adjustable along the front surface of the backrest portion, a shoulder strap 106A, and a panel 164 assembled at the front surface. The shoulder strap is formed from a webbing material that passes through the slot and extends at a front side of the backrest portion. The panel 164 covers a region of the backrest portion that becomes uncovered by the headrest at the front surface as a result of the headrest being adjusted downward or it covers a region of the slot that varies in size as the headrest is adjusted. The seat can include a transversal bar 158 affixed with the backrest portion, and a latch 126 located below the transversal bar. The latch has a locking structure 140 operable to engage with the backrest portion to hold the headrest in place, the latch being assembled with the headrest about a pivot axis X located between the transversal bar and the locking structure.
Patent GB-2491287-A (GB)
Title: Bollard assembly
Inventor: BALL ROBERT NICHOLAS
IPC: E01F9/646
Filed: 2011-03-31
Abstract: The bollard assembly 1 comprises a guide bore within which a bollard part 5 is housed so as to be slidingly moveable between retracted and extended states. A collar is fixed to the base end of the bollard part and positioned between an outer surface of the bollard part and an opposing inner surface of the bore, with the collar being fixed to the base end 21B of the bollard part at other than said opposed outer surface. The opposed outer surface preferably extends from the periphery of a chamfered edge at the base end of the bollard part. The collar preferably comprises first and second rings 17,18 connected by a number of spacer elements 19 or an intermediate waist portion. A second guide bore may be located within the bollard part, within which an inner bollard 6 part with a similar collar may be located.
Patent GB-2504945-A (GB)
Title: CQI feedback for a MIMO system
Inventor: WANG GANG
IPC: H04B7/04
Filed: 2012-08-13
Abstract: This application relates to channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback in a multi input multi output (MIMO) system. A receiver receives a signal which was transmitted using a precoding matrix W, and also receives the precoding matrix W over a control channel. The receiver passes the signal through a signal processing module, such as an MMSE MIMO equaliser or a RAKE receiver, whose impulse response can be represented by the matrix F. The receiver also estimates a preferred precoding matrix Wp which it feeds back to the transmitter for possible use for the next transmission, alongside a CQI value associated with Wp. What follows is an explanation of how this CQI is determined, according to the invention. The receiver uses the received signal to estimate a first effective channel G. G=FHW, where H is the MIMO channel matrix between transmitter and receiver. The receiver then estimates a second effective channel Gp=FHWP by transforming the estimate of the first effective channel G, using a transformation matrix T based on the precoding matrices W and Wp.
Patent GB-2492938-A (GB)
Title: A magnetic screen
Inventor: BAKER WILLIAM JOHN
IPC: B03C1/033
Filed: 2011-05-02
Abstract: A magnetic screen assembly (13). The assembly (13) is to be located in a duct (10) to screen a flowable substance passing in a direction (11). The assembly (13) has a screening position (A) so that the substance passes through the screen, and a cleaning position (B) at which the screen assembly (13) is spaced outwardly relative to the housing (12) to facilitate cleaning of the assembly (13).
Patent GB-2496766-A (GB)
Title: Method for arranging cooling water pipes in large volume concrete
Inventor: ZHOU HOUGUI
IPC: E04G21/06
Filed: 2011-12-08
Abstract: A method for arranging cooling water pipes in large volume concrete includes the steps of: a. obtaining the conditions of temperature field distribution of the large volume concrete by using practical measurements or the numerical simulation technology for the temperature field, and plotting an isothermal line graph of the temperature field; and b. arranging the water cooling pipes along or close to the isothermal lines, with a water inlet arranged in a region where the concrete is at the highest temperature, and the spacing between the water pipes being or approximating the spacing between the isothermal lines. This method effectively reduces the temperature difference within the concrete, and prevents the generation and development of concrete cracks.
Patent GB-2506699-A (GB)
Title: A child carrier
Inventor: WHITING JULIETTE
IPC: A47D13/02
Filed: 2013-01-14
Abstract: The present invention relates to a child carrier comprising a child harness 3 mounted on a backboard 2 that is rigid at least in part. The backboard has at least one fastening 1 arranged in use to attach the carrier to a user in a seat restraint. The backboard may have a tapered lower section 5 to rest comfortably between a users legs. The carrier may also comprise a pouch which receives a child. Also claimed is a method of forming such a carrier. The carrier is thought to provide a means for travelling with a child in a vehicle, particularly where standardized child travel arrangements are not available.
Patent GB-2499554-A (GB)
Title: Accelerating aging of ethanol-based beverages
Inventor: WATSON DANIEL MARTIN
IPC: C12G3/04
Filed: 2011-11-30
Abstract: Systems and methods for accelerating the aging of distilled spirits are disclosed. The systems and methods may include increased reaction rates of ethanol with oxygen, acids, sugars, and/or other components within an ethanol mixture. The accelerated reactions may produce an aged alcohol in a matter of a few hours or days, whereas comparable alcohols aged conventionally would require many years. The accelerated aging of the ethanol may be performed to provide the end product with a desired flavor profile in a short period of time at a substantially reduced cost.
Patent GB-2506486-A (GB)
Title: Tabletop semi-automatic cigarette-making machine
Inventor: CHEN JUNMO
IPC: A24C5/06
Filed: 2013-07-24
Abstract: A semi-automatic cigarette-making machine 10 of the tobacco-injecting type includes a housing with an aperture (22, fig 1) and a compacting chamber 50 in communication with the aperture for receiving loose tobacco, a compacting member (40, fig 2) mounted for manually operated reciprocal up and down motion from an initial position adjacent the top of the compacting chamber toward the bottom of the compacting chamber, preferably in response to the rotation of a pair of opposed gears 78A, 78B, and an injection spoon 96 mounted for automatic electrically powered reciprocal lateral movement from a rest position within the compacting chamber across the compacting chamber to transport rod-like compacted tobacco shapes past the ejection side of the compacting chamber and into a hollow cigarette tube. Preferably, the machine has a handle 28 for manually compacting the loose tobacco into a rod-like shape, and operation of the handle may actuate a switch 84 to initiate electric power to eject the compacted tobacco from an eject port of the compacting chamber 50.