baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2592498-A (GB)
Title: Surface cleaning apparatus illumination system
Inventor: Jason B Throne
IPC: A47L9/30
Filed: 2019-10-02
Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a vacuum body defining an agitation chamber, an agitator, and an illumination system. The agitator is rotatably disposed at least partially within the agitation chamber and includes an agitator body defining an illumination chamber. The illumination system is at least partially disposed within the illumination chamber and includes at least one light source. Alternatively, a vacuum cleaner includes a vacuum body defining an agitation chamber, an agitator rotatably disposed at least partially within the agitation chamber, an illumination coupled to the vacuum body and including at least one light source, and a light guide configured to redirect light emitted in a first direction from the at least one light source to a second direction.
Patent GB-2606402-A (GB)
Title: Beverage packaging
Inventor: LUCCA RAFFAELE RICARDO LUPINI
IPC: B65D51/18
Filed: 2021-05-07
Abstract: A beverage package 10 is comprised of a bottle having a base 15, main body 11, shoulder 12 and neck 13 as well as an over-cap 16 that is received at the main body of the bottle. The assembled package results in an elongate shape with substantially continuous side walls, e.g. in the transition between the main body and over-cap. The over-cap may be received at an annular flange/ledge of the shoulder portion of the bottle. The over cap may connect with the bottle by an interference fit, threaded engagement, bayonet fitting or by incorporating a clip element. The main body and/or the over-cap may be formed by a spiral wound paper method, or from pulp, metal, glass or plastic. The over cap may have a barrier layer applied to the inside surface to allow its use as a drinking vessel. The bottle may include an internal protective coating/lamination or include an internal bag to render the bottle resistant to liquid egress. Also claimed is a method for manufacturing this beverage package. The package is particularly suited for use as a gift pack and minimises additional packaging materials by utilising the bottle itself for forming half of the display/decorative surface.
Patent GB-2593381-A (GB)
Title: Haptic feedback generation
Inventor: David charles william richards
IPC: G06F3/01
Filed: 2019-10-28
Abstract: Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide techniques for generating haptic feedback or haptic sensations, and in particular to techniques for outputting haptic feedback which varies depending on the input. The haptic feedback is delivered by a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator that controls the movement of a component based on the required haptic feedback/sensation.
Patent GB-2604409-A (GB)
Title: Furniture light-emitting assembly and light-emitting seat having same
Inventor: RUJIA MAO
IPC: F21Y115/10
Filed: 2020-01-02
Abstract: A furniture light-emitting assembly and a light-emitting seat having same. The furniture light-emitting assembly comprises: a strip-shaped lamp (1), a fixing member (2), a heat insulation layer (3), a light-guide material layer (4) and a power supply assembly; the heat insulation layer (3) is made of a transparent or translucent material, and the strip-shaped lamp (1) is provided on the fixing member (2) in such a way that the back face thereof is adhered to the fixing member (2) or the fixing member (2) and the light-guide material layer (4) are sewn and spliced to fix the strip-shaped lamp (1). The furniture light-emitting assembly can be applied to various soft-pack furniture, can emit light in any shape at any position of a soft-pack furniture product, and has advantages such as soft light, high visual comfort, and good visual effect. The light-emitting seat having the furniture light-emitting assembly has advantages such as soft light, high visual comfort, good visual effect, and high-end appearance of the seat as a whole.
Patent GB-2595597-A (GB)
Title: Sanitary facility management system and sanitary facility management method
Inventor: STEPHEN JOHN CUMMINGS
IPC: G06Q50/06
Filed: 2020-02-17
Abstract: The present invention comprises a sanitary facility management system as well as a corresponding sanitary facility management method with at least one sanitary installation, which is coupled to a water supply and/or is included in a water circuit and on which at least one operating value of the at least one sanitary installation can be recorded, a sanitary facility control device connected to the at least one sanitary installation comprising at least one data transmitter and at least one signal receiver and a data processing and signal output system communicating with the sanitary facility control device via the at least one data transmitter and the at least one signal receiver, wherein the data processing and signal output system is a system learning by machine and/or a system comprising an artificial neuronal net and/or an expert system.
Patent GB-2596258-A (GB)
Title: Heating apparatus
Inventor: ADAM IAIN LAURIE PULLEY
IPC: H05K7/20
Filed: 2017-10-06
Abstract: A heating apparatus 1 for a domestic or commercial building comprises: a computer system 3 which produces thermal energy through use; and an assembly 11 comprising a fluid circuit 13 and heat exchangers 15a, 15b for transferring the heat away for heating purposes. In response to determining that an increased heating temperature is required, a controller (141, fig. 2) controls at least one of a computer system heat production rate and a rate at which the assembly transfers heat away from the processor, such that the processor temperature increases. In response to determining there is no need for central heating, a controller may control at least one of a computer system heat production rate and a rate at which the assembly transfers heat away from the processor such that the temperature of the processor decreases. The processor may be provided with a temperature sensor and the processor may be maintained at a predefined temperature by closed-loop control. The circuit may also be arranged such that, before passing through the heat exchanger, heat is transferred to the fluid from ancillary components 9a-d of the computer system.
Patent GB-2604421-A (GB)
Title: Problem management in a user system
Inventor: STEFAN RENNER
IPC: G06F21/52
Filed: 2021-11-04
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a problem management method for a user system. A method may include detecting an error in the user system. A signed package may be provided in accordance with the detected error, wherein the package comprises at least a script. The user system may verify the authenticity of the package using a signature of the package, and may execute the script if the package is authentic.
Patent GB-2598507-A (GB)
Title: Degassing apparatus
Inventor: OLIVER PETSCHENYK
IPC: F01P7/16
Filed: 2019-03-12
Abstract: An apparatus for degassing cooling circuits and comprises at least two chambers 210, 211, each chamber having a fluid inlet 207, fluid outlet 209 and an opening 206 through which gasses can escape and is in communication with a common fluid reservoir 203. The at least two chambers can be a first chamber connected to a first cooling circuit and a second chamber connected to a second circuit. The two chambers may be of different sizes or include an internal baffle system. The second chamber may be located either under or next to the first chamber. The openings can be located either side of a central axis 216, or one opening can be located on said central axis. The apparatus might also include an expansion tank with the fluid reservoir and forming an integrated tank with the chambers.
Patent GB-2598511-A (GB)
Title: Modified polylactic acid non-woven fabric for oil-water separation, preparation method therefor and application thereof
Inventor: WEI JIANG
IPC: D06M13/144
Filed: 2020-01-21
Abstract: Provided in the present invention is a preparation method for a modified polylactic acid non-woven fabric for oil-water separation, comprising the following steps: (1) dissolving PDLA in an organic solvent to prepare a 0.1-5wt% PDLA solution, adding a poor solvent of polylactic acid having a volume 1-4 times that of the PDLA solution, and stirring to obtain a mixed solution; (2) pouring the mixed solution obtained in step (1) into a container containing a PLLA non-woven fabric; (3) allowing same to stand for a certain period of time at room temperature, and then drying. Micron-sized particles generated on the modified polylactic acid non-woven fabric prepared according to the present application increase the surface roughness of the polylactic acid non-woven fabric, the highest contact angle of the non-woven fabric in air to water is 150°, the contact angle of the non-woven fabric to oil is 0°, the adsorption capacity of the modified polylactic acid non-woven fabric is increased by more than 40% compared to the adsorption capacity of unmodified polylactic acid non-woven fabric, and the modified polylactic acid non-woven fabric still has good stability after being repeatedly used 10 times. The preparation method of the present invention is simple, and the prepared fabric is completely biodegradable, will not cause secondary pollution and is widely applicable to the treatment of oily wastewater.
Patent GB-2612655-A (GB)
Title: Road space collective perception message within an intelligent transport system
Inventor: BRICE LE HOUEROU
IPC: H04W4/46
Filed: 2021-12-15
Abstract: A Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System (C-ITS) includes reporting and/or receiving collective perception messages (CPM). The CPM 400 includes an element 401 (e.g. a space container) which describes a space (e.g. an area of a road topology) and comprises a field 402 indicating the space state. (Alternatively the element merely describes a space representing a specific area of a road topology.) The space state field may depend on a rule corresponding to a type of the space (e.g. lane (Fig.1), merge lane (Fig.8), parking (Fig.9) or pedestrian crosswalk (Fig.14)) and may indicate occupancy of the space as an object count. The element may include an identifier of another space indicating that the space (171a,Fig.1) is a sub part of another space (171,Fig.1). It may include fields of a free space container or may be a container which can represent a space or a free space. An ITS station receiving the CPM may determine a global perception of the road situation from information in the element.
Patent GB-2601251-A (GB)
Title: Low dead-volume connector for fluid chromatography
Inventor: NICOLAI BACHE
IPC: G01N30/60
Filed: 2017-10-06
Abstract: A connector for fluid chromatography has a female assembly 12 which includes a receiving member which receives and releasably interlocks with a male assembly 10. The male assembly comprises a capillary conduit 22, a sealing gasket 24, a force transmitting member 32, and a hollow handling nut 38. The gasket accommodates the front-end portion of the capillary conduit and has a front-end flange 24* with a bevelled rearward facing surface 26. It stands out slightly from the capillary conduit in a disengaged condition and becomes compressed into flush alignment when the assemblies are engaged. The force transmitting member slidably accommodates a portion of the sealing gasket and has a rearward facing force-receiving surface as well as a bevelled front face 32*. The dimensions of this front face are complementary to those of the bevelled rearward facing surface of the gasket. The hollow handling nut comprises a passage 40 which accommodates a portion of the capillary conduit and has a forward-facing force-exerting surface which contacts the rearward facing force-receiving surface of the force transmitting member.
Patent GB-2607144-A (GB)
Title: Active cooling of windward surface of craft
Inventor: Elaine MacDonald
IPC: B64D13/00
Filed: 2022-02-18
Abstract: An aircraft panel comprising a metallic outer wall 707 and a metallic inner wall 709 forming an envelope. Within the envelope coolant is allowed to flow to cool the outer wall 707 during atmospheric heating. Within the envelope of the two walls coolant flow partitions 710 may be present. If part of a nose cone, these partitions 710 may be in a helical shape around the axis of direction of travel. Within the partitions 710 may be two directions of coolant flow, one in the direction of travel towards the tip of the cone and one away from the tip of the cone. Furthermore, there may also be a plurality of though holes 718 in the outer wall extending into the coolant channel such that a portion of the coolant is expelled though these holes forming a barrier film 720 on the exterior.
Patent GB-2601951-A (GB)
Title: Turbine with smart pitch system and blade pitch lock assembly
Inventor: Daniel A Broderick
IPC: F03D80/70
Filed: 2020-06-09
Abstract: A system comprising a blade pitch system having a set of locking holes. A pitch drive assembly is coupled to the blade pitch system and configured to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise within a range of angular degrees to adjust a blade pitch angle. The system includes a pitch lock pin-and-hole system including an interface plate and at least one blade pitch lock assembly coupled to the interface plate. Each lock assembly includes a locking pin having a pin center axis parallel with a center axis of a locking hole to engage a respective one locking hole of the set to lock the blade pitch angle.
Patent GB-2617591-A (GB)
Title: Image processing system and method
Inventor: MARIA CHIARA MONTI
IPC: G06T15/00
Filed: 2022-04-13
Abstract: A content rendering and display system operable to display content to a viewer, the system comprising a rendering unit operable to render an image having a first resolution in a first render pass, and to generate supplementary information comprising edge information for the rendered image in additional render passes, wherein the rendered image and the supplementary information are stored in a multi‐layer image structure. An upsampling unit operates to perform an upsampling process on the rendered image to generate an image having a portion at a second resolution higher than the first resolution, possibly at the foveal region of a viewer, wherein the upsampling process comprises a morphological antialiasing process that uses the supplementary information as an input, and a display device operates to display the upsampled image.
Patent GB-2604485-A (GB)
Title: Self-aligned top via formation at line ends
Inventor: ASHIM DUTTA
IPC: H01L23/522
Filed: 2020-09-24
Abstract: Method of forming self-aligned vias (2302, 2402) at line ends includes: patterning even/odd metal lines (202, 302) including using a first/second hardmask (102, 104); cutting the hardmask (102, 104) and a select metal line (202, 302), even or odd, using a cut mask (402, 1102) having a window (404) that exposes the hardmask (102, 104) over a cut region of the select metal line (202, 302); enlarging the window (404) to expose the hardmask (102, 104) on either side of the out region; selectively etching the hardmask (102, 104) using the enlarged window (1104) to form a T-shaped cavity (902, 1502) within the out region; filling the T-shaped cavity (902, 1502) with a gap fill dielectric (2002); removing the hardmask (102, 104); and recessing the metal lines (202, 302), wherein the gap fill dielectric (2002) overhangs portions of the select metal line (202, 302) that, by the recessing, form the self-aligned vias (2302, 2402) at ends of the metal lines (202, 302). A structure is also provided.
Patent GB-2617867-A (GB)
Title: Launching code concurrently
Inventor: ANDREW ROBERT FOOTE
IPC: G06F9/48
Filed: 2022-04-14
Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to concurrently cause one or more software modules to be performed by a processor. In at least one embodiment, one or more processors perform one or more software drivers to cause two or more graphics kernels to be performed concurrently. In at least one embodiment, to cause two or more graphics kernels to be performed concurrently includes performing operations to prepare two or more graphics kernels to be launched on one or more graphics processing cores. In at least one embodiment, one or more software drivers are to receive instructions from an application programming interface (API) to prepare two or more graphics kernels to be performed concurrently.
Patent GB-2605290-A (GB)
Title: A Method of metal additive manufacturing
Inventor: XINJIANG HAO
IPC: C22C38/00
Filed: 2020-10-23
Abstract: A method of manufacturing an article by metal additive manufacture (MAM), the method comprises: providing a steel-based atomised powder composition comprising manganese and sulphur, wherein the sulphur content is in the range of 0.01 to 0.1 wt.% of the total composition, and the weight percentage ratio of Mn:S is greater than or equal to 5, preferably greater than or equal to 10; providing a layer of the atomised powder composition; melting and cooling the layer. repeating to form an article, wherein the article comprises nanosized MnS particles. There is also disclosed a metal additive manufactured article formed of steel having small grain size.
Patent GB-2620907-A (GB)
Title: An electric vehicle charging apparatus
Inventor: DANIEL JAMES GREENWAY
IPC: B60L53/31
Filed: 2022-05-24
Abstract: An electric vehicle (EV) charging apparatus 300 includes a body 310 having: a front face 330 with at least one aperture 320 formed therein; and a channel 350 which extends from the aperture 320 for receiving a power supply cable. The body is at least partially formed from a mineral material (e.g. reinforced concrete) and may be reinforced with glass fibres/fibers. The body has multiple, flat, side faces 334, each defining an edge with the front face. The body includes a further channel 370, extending along the front face, for receiving and securing a portion of an EV charging cable. The further channel may be parallel with the channel. A metal conduit 380, positioned within the channel, may receive a power supply cable. The aperture may be formed in a head portion 360 of the body, with the channel extending from the aperture through a leg portion 364 of the body. The head portion may have a recess 362, in which the aperture is formed. At least one face connected to the recess is slanted. The body may have plural channels, each channel extending from at least one aperture.
Patent GB-2620173-A (GB)
Title: Processing data using a neural network "NN" implemented in hardware
Inventor: SZABOLCS CSÉFALVAY
IPC: G06N3/0495
Filed: 2022-06-30
Abstract: A computer-implemented method of processing data using a neural network (NN) implemented in hardware is disclosed and optimising the NN for example via quantisation or pruning. The NN comprises a plurality of layers, each layer being configured to operate on activation data input to the layer so as to form output data for the layer, the data being arranged in data channels. The method comprises operating on activation data input to a layer for an identified channel of output data for the layer, such that the output data for the layer does not include the identified channel, and prior to an operation of the NN configured to operate on the output data for the layer, inserting a replacement channel into the output data for the layer in lieu of the identified channel in dependence on information indicative of the structure of the output data for the layer were the identified channel to have been included, for example information indicative of the structure of the output data for the layer including the identified channel.
Patent GB-2610500-A (GB)
Title: Display substrate and manufacturing method therefor, and display device
Inventor: DALI LI
IPC: H10K59/10
Filed: 2021-03-15
Abstract: The present invention provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device. The display substrate comprises: a base substrate, having an opening area, a display area surrounding the opening area, and an isolation area located between the display area and the opening area, wherein the opening area is configured for mounting of a light extraction module; at least one circle of barrier wall, provided around the opening area in the isolation area; a packaging layer, located on the side of a layer where the barrier wall is located away from the base substrate, the orthographic projection of the packaging layer on the base substrate completely covering the display area; a first protection layer, located on the side of the packaging layer away from the base substrate, the first protection layer at least completely covering the at least one circle of barrier layer; and a filling layer, located on the side of the first protection layer away from the base substrate, the filling layer being located in the isolation area, and the filling layer completely covering the at least one circle of barrier layer and at least partially overlapping the packaging layer.
Patent GB-2611657-A (GB)
Title: Preparation and use of pyrazole compound containing 1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-#-carboline unit
Inventor: HONG DAI
IPC: C07D471/04
Filed: 2021-08-25
Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation and a use of a pyrazole compound containing a 1-(3,4-Dimethoxyphenyl)-β-carboline unit. The compound is obtained by means of reacting pyrazole aldehyde with 1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-β-carboline acyl hydrazine. The pyrazole compound containing a 1-(3,4-Dimethoxyphenyl)-β-carboline unit has good inhibitory activity against HGC-27 tumor cells, and said compound can be used to prepare an anti-tumor cell drug.
Patent GB-2612467-A (GB)
Title: Genetic modification of mammalian cells to confer resistance to CSF1R antagonists
Inventor: Hayk Davtyan
IPC: C12N5/079
Filed: 2022-04-01
Abstract: Microglia/monocytes exist within a 'niche' which limits the total number of microglia/monocytes/macrophages that reside within a mammalian central nervous system (CNS). Therefore, methods are needed that can help therapeutically modify microglia, monocytes, and macrophages or the cells that give rise to them to compete with endogenous microglia and partially or completely occupy the CNS niche. The present disclosure features therapeutic microglia, monocytes, or macrophages that have a selective advantage in comparison to endogenous brain resident microglia in their response to CSF1 R inhibitors. Specifically, therapeutic cells developed in the present disclosure do not die at a given dose of CSF1 R inhibitor that is sufficient to kill endogenous microglia. The therapeutic cells described herein can be used to treat neurological diseases.
Patent GB-2616339-A (GB)
Title: Cryogenic containment system
Inventor: MICHAEL BARDELL
IPC: H01M8/0612
Filed: 2022-12-29
Abstract: A system for using methanol to convert into hydrogen to power one or more facility systems, comprising a methanol storage tank 112, a water source 119, a mixer 214 to mix the methanol and water, and a reactor 116 which generated Hydrogen from the mixture/.A backup power system 126 uses the H2 to generate electrical power. A control system 208 controls the flow of water and of methanol in order to control the rate of H2 production and of power generation.Figure 2