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Sodium Electrical Wire
Compared to copper, per unit weight, sodium has three times the conductivity, seven times the impulse tolerance, but half the cost. Sodium’s explosive chemical reactivity, low tensile strength, and low melting point have heretofore prevented widespread use. However, my patented designs overcome these problems to create practical sodium wire that is lighter, cheaper, cleaner and safer than copper.
Figure 1: Basic wire structure. A springy flattened microtube with joined layers of tempered beryllium copper and aluminum alloy chemically isolate sodium while increasing wire tensile strength to 1/3rd that of conductively equivalent copper. Insulation reinforcement adds more strength if needed. ...
Device to Convert "Plug-In" to Inductive Charging
It has been shown that "plug-in" recharging of electric vehicles is likely to be a relatively short lived method transferring energy from a charging base station to the vehicle (See Reference). A much better solution is to use Inductive Coupling to recharge the vehicle each time that it parks. Inductive Coupling Technology (ICT) can be used to transfer wireless power from one surface to any ICT compatible device, eliminating the need for power cords and battery chargers. With the ICT technology, there are no on or off switches. It is possible to design the system to operate automatically and ...
Mithras CPV
The Mithras Concentrator is a lightweight, rapidly deployable 100W solar power device, utilizing concentrated photovoltaic technology. CPV introduces a low-cost option to solar power generation, using reflective surfaces and a Fresnel lens to consolidate sunlight from a large area into a tighter beam. This reduces the cost of the final product, decreasing the number of PV cells necessary to capture a given amount of light energy, while producing a consistent voltage output and making more efficient use of space.
Solar cell performance is inversely proportional to temperature, and falls off rapidly after a certain threshold (around 110 degrees C). Black ...
Street Light Controller
The system aims to save electric energy spent during the night by streetlights.
Today, several systems exist. They are based on a remote control of each lamp.
Communication increases the price of theses devices and requires configuration. Then they don't really save money.
The idea has to stay simple, and is resumed by these specifications:
1) You can imagine that all the streetlights have been installed with a lamp controller, called "system" in the following lines. The typical installation is shown in figure 1.
2) The system measures the duration of an electric light switching on, then indirectly, the ...
iPecs Tech
The College Park Industries iPecs® (Intelligent Prosthetic Endo-Skeletal Component System) is a medical research device which will provide researchers a tool to accurately measure human locomotion or gait parameters on users of lower limb prostheses. The iPecs measures forces and torsion-moments which can then be wirelessly transmitted in real time, to a PC interface. This wireless capability of the iPecs will, for the first time, allow environmentally unencumbered research to be conducted outside of the laboratory setting providing insight into what a prosthesis user experiences on a daily basis. This device is a measurement tool which will initially provide ...
A Robot on the Moon
Because our aim is to win the Google Lunar X-Prize (GLXP) in the most commercial and sustainable manner, our design has many practical applications. We are developing an inexpensive yet durable robotic platform, whose resistance to the much harsher conditions of the moon will enable it to be used anywhere on Earth.
Similar to Mars Exploration Rovers, our swarm of eight to ten autonomous robots will land via airbags on the moon. Then, they will crawl and/or fly across the lunar surface for several hundred meters, capturing video with special JPEG2000 compression chips and searching for water with low-cost spectrometers. ...
omni-IDE Device for Embedded Development
The omni-IDE is a versatile, comprehensive electronic appliance that serves as a core platform for a wide range of embedded applications, hence the name "omni-IDE." Astute readers will recognize that this single design is suitable as a basis for a wide range of embedded applications.
The cornucopia of omni-IDE capabilities translate directly to an abundance of benefits:
*Ready-to-use
*Unmatched practical utility
*Ease of deployment
*Educational resource
*Easily integrated into a larger system (eg, industrial) as a self-contained component.
*Excellent reference design for virtually any custom application-specific device
*Excellent "ready-to-go" evaluation/development platform
*Third party opportunities
*Economical.
Furthermore, this design idea ...
Image Analysis Processor Chipset
Robotic vision has been forecast for decades, but in reality machine vision does not yet work very well. I suggest using a new approach to image analysis, similar to what evolution has done for mammals. If machines and robots could see the way mammals do, then it would be much safer to work with them, have them perform work that is too dangerous for humans, and in general augment human vision with machine vision. Elder care robots, automotive guidance systems, drug discovery, fMRI image analysis, even air traffic control would benefit very substantially from machine vision that is real-time ...
Green Power Debugger
Many of today micro-controllers circuit were developed for battery operation.
It is a hard task to debug the product for power consumption.
My idea is to develop a low cost power debugger - an electronic measuring system (software & hardware),a combination of a current sense power meter and analyzing software who can pin point the current consumption element in the design - whether it is hardware (static current) or software (who activate a hardware element).
The power debugger will use a a small micro controller as a data logger/sampler,and PC computer as a process & display element.
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Voice Activated Alarm System
The human voice has the ability to control or operate an alarm, a radio or a variety of other devices including toys. Keeping this in view an idea was conceived to develop a device that can understand the human voice and perform the desired operations. This device when developed can help the blind community a lot in performing their day to day activities with ease and comfort. With addition of Speech (voice response) functionality the same device can be used to understand few real time situations and act accordingly. This can also be adopted by the personnel who cannot ...
E-Blocks: The "Lego" of Electronic Prototypes
An e-block is an electronic block, a “lego” piece of electronics. One can order pieces of e-blocks and snap them together to build a working device in a matter of hours. This modular concept to building electronics enables engineers, hobbyists, and researchers alike to build customized, yet modular and off-the-shelf, electronic systems at a fraction of the time and cost of designing a conventional prototype board.
The idea works because many electronic designs share common architectures. For example, most data acquisition systems have a sensor that measures a physical property, an analog front end that conditions the signal, analog-to-digital ...
Biometrics Bracelet or Ring
A bracelet or ring that analyzes a person using a variety of biometrics, such as galvanic skin response, possibly frequency (like the brainwave frequency devices), heart rate and oxygen levels. Using a variety of biometric data the color of an LED in the bracelet or ring would change color. If the overall energy level or biometric levels of the person lowered it would turn for example blue, and if the overall levels went up it would turn green with clean being the normal. This could be sold for fun, basically stating that it is a party gift to show ...
Maximum Utilization of Structure for Communication
Space-borne communications platforms are restrictive on weight and mass as these are directly proportional to launch costs. As a result, the antennas are usually integrated on the platform as space available on an existing launch vehicle. The usual suspects are foldable high-gain dishes or extendable booms for C-band, VHF, UHF. What I am presenting a more natural design and approach space communications.
Usual analysis of dishes involves, using tools like GRASP or other MoM code which achieve a highly tuned product but parabolic antennas are highly susceptible to manufacturing tolerances which increase exponentially as the transmit/receive frequency increase linearly ...
Compact, Low Power Uncompressed HD Video Recorder
High quality lenses and image sensors for High Definition video are widely available in many current video cameras.
However, in order to record HD, the video is typically highly compressed, which typically involves some compromises in image quality. Typically the video is watchable, but a high degree of image detail or color information is lost.
For applications that require high quality images, a better approach is needed, and that is recording "Full Uncompressed" Video. This is especially important for surveillance, instrumentation, and military applications.
Our design is for a low cost, low power, ultimate image quality video recorder. Since ...
Transforming Quantum Circuits
By "Merging Waves" together to create "Electromagnetic Molds"
so that electrons and positrons (holes) hold into certain configurations that would allow Quantum fluid like logical control of atoms and molecules and particles, allowing a more precise production of sensors and electronic circuits.
www.youtube.com/user/evolivid#p/u/2/7docw_KCQh4
The Idea Uses Positive and Negative waves that are merged together using special transducers
and antennas within an air core; inside as the waves merge the circuit is created by stabilizing the polarity's into the above "YouTube" video configurations. There are millions of configurations possible. Making millions of circuits possible that can change as ...
Hologram Phone
Hologram Phone (HPhone) is a communication device that projects real-time 3-D images between users.
Overview:
The HPhone utilizes advanced laser and satellite technologies which results in an exciting future of futuristic telecommunications. "Live," absolutely precise, three-dimensional 3-D images of users are move and react with one another. Special glasses are NOT needed in that the holographic image is clearly projected in the room with the user.
Benefits:
The biggest benefit of using the Hologram Phone is the ability to "humanize" phone conversations with instant face-to-face conversations. Users have the benefit of seeing and almost feeling the presence ...
Networked T8 LED
LED replacements for four foot T8 fluorescent lamps have a energy saving of about 35%. By adding a wireless or power line networking electronics directly into the tube additional energy savings can be accomplished, via dimming or selectively turning off individual tubes per fixture. Upwards of 85% total energy savings can be accomplished using these technique. Considering the fact that 20% of the electrical energy generated in the USA is for lighting, this is a significant energy saving.
Area lighting can be selectively tuned for corridors (dimmed), office cubicles (Low/Med/High brightness), or open areas. Detection of occupancy, directly by ...
Improved Temperature Compensation for Wireless Communications
Typical temperature compensation techniques for wireless communications add ~$1 per oscillator, reduces battery life and reliability. Based on current experiments and patents granted, we can establish tighter frequency control while removing the added cost and complexity in the circuitry commonly used in cellular and other wireless applications. By adjusting the quarts cut away from the AT angle area, we adjust the effective stiffness of the hemihedral crystalline structure so that its third order temperature coefficent is lower than the the industry standard AT cut. Prior efforts in this area led by Seico with the GT cut have produced technical ...
Compact High Efficiency Satellite Terminal
Anderson Aerospace LLC has developed a new compact microwave antenna technology that offers improvements over existing satellite television and broadband communications systems for aircraft in flight.
Typically, dish style antennas are 50% efficient. The most efficient system currently on the market can have as high as a 75% efficiency. Our direct wave design is 80% to 85% efficient.
This efficiency allows us to have a smaller antenna with superior performance to existing systems. This size advantage significantly reduces operating costs due to reduced drag and weight.
In addition, our innovative system architecture removes typical parasitic loss in the RF ...
Opto-Electronic Non-Volatile Memory Cell
A single Opto-Electronic, Non-Volatile Memory Cell (OENVM) capable of storing 16-Bits of data in a small (n scale) could result in fast, compact, memory storage for future computers.
Being able to modulate light’s properties (e.g. frequency, intensity, polarization, phase, etc.) allows for very fast optical telecommunication devices that are less massive and require less power than conventional copper/aluminum coaxial cable and trace routings in integrated circuits. In this regard, the OENVMC described here would record 16-bits of data using the addition of two phase shifted, linearly polarized pulses of light and the adjustment of the pulse energy of a ...
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