Machinery & Equipment 2011
CubeSpawn, an Open Source FMS
CubeSpawn is a straight-forward idea:
Frames, made from popular and widely available aluminum extrusion, are used to house machines that perform one step of a manufacturing process. The machines design specifications are provided as "open source" to the community of machine builders.
The frames are based on 300mm increments, so the designs are scale-able from small cells (300mm - pick and place) to medium (1.2m light milling machine or router) to large (4.8 meter - assembly robot)
Each cube is an Ethernet device so they can be linked together to form both the physical steps in a process, and ...
Fuel-less Motor-Generator for Electric Car
The submitted motor-generator for an electric car has many rotors. But it differs from usual that radiuses of rotors are various. This difference of radiuses allows to use energy of centrifugal acceleration for reception of superfluous capacity.
During start all rotors work in a mode of the motor. At higher speeds or during a stop at a traffic light only the central big rotor works in a mode of the motor. Other rotors with small radius work in a mode of the generator and charge the accumulator. Rotors can be in quantity 3 too.
At very high speeds 2/3 ...
HHO Hydroxy Test Setup
HYDROXY (HHO) WaterFuelCell EVALUATION TEST SETUP
Using water as a clean economical fuel source has been the dream of mankind for centuries and it now appears this dream has become reality.
On-demand fracturing of liquid water (H2O) to release its Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O) components into a combustible gaseous form can employ a variety of methods and techniques. One such technique was pioneered by Stanley Meyer back in the 1980s using a method whereby simple tap water, without additives, is subjected to high voltage pulses within a stainless steel tubular type cell reactor.
Other pioneers, Tay-Hee Han and ...
Step Feeder Equipment
Presently, this equipment is very much useful for the forging and automation industry.The main function of the step feeder is to orient & feed the cut billets lengthwise to a conveyor for the next operation. Design of the feeder is special because of it is motor and cam operated device it can carry the load around 400 kg. by using very low effort. Operation is to feed continues component step by step it is like our staircase.
It is very easy to use and reduces human effort and enables more efficient working. The robust design gives liberty to the ...
Variable Volume Reservoir, Fluid Power Application
The Variable Volume Reservoir (VVR) was designed around the common aerospace Bootstrap reservoir used on aircraft. The VVR design is much simpler in design and cost effective. It was designed to target the industrial hydraulic machinery sector (mobile and stationary). The main purpose is to replace the common hydraulic reservoirs where most of the time is sized too large for the application. The common rule of thumb in the industrial market for reservoir size is 2-3 times the pump flow where the VVR volume is ONLY based on thermal fluid expansion and cylinder rod volume (if applicable). In some ...
Hybrid Rotor Compressor for Natural Gas Extraction
Natural gas is a booming industry in the US and represents a bridge energy solution to a renewable energy future. Unfortunately, the key piece of equipment, the compressor, that is being used to extract and process natural gas uses technology that has remained fundamentally unchanged in the last century.
OsComp Systems has developed a breakthrough natural gas compression technology that will revolutionize the industry. By combining a novel rotary geometry with an innovative method for extracting heat from the system, OsComp's compressor is 10% of the size of conventional machines and over 30% more efficient.
The basis of the efficiency ...
Dynamic Engine Valve Timing & Throw Control
Denham Springs, Louisiana United States
Jun 20, 2011
Changes in intake and exhaust valve timing and throw directly effect the power, torque and fuel efficiency of a four stroke Internal Combustion Engine (ICE). The timing (or phase) relative to the position of the piston alters when the valve begins to open or close during an intake or exhaust stroke while the throw (or eccentricity) determines how quickly the valve opens and closes (the Lift Rate), how long the valve is off of its seat (the Duration), and the maximum available throat area when the valve is fully opened (the Valve Lift). Additionally, the intake and exhaust valves ...
New Design of CV Joint
Presov, Slovak republic Slovak republic
Jun 30, 2011
The invention relates to constant velocity joint of so-called fixed type, where the input and output shaft cannot move in the direction of their axes.
The aim of the invention is to provide a technical solution which is easier, cheaper, less demanding in production, and provides better parameters than current conventional solutions.
Today the most commonly used type of CVJ is the Rzeppa type joint based on inventions from the 20s and 30s of the previous century. Their disadvantage is a demanding production, no tolerance to axial load and small angle of shaft deflection (roughly twelve degrees to ...
Full Color Solid 3D Image Scanner
This novel invention uses polishing techniques to slowly polish or abrade away stepped layers of an object to be scanned. The scanned object is cast into a contrasting resin which provides a dark (or light) background for photography. The layers are digitally photographed stepwise to produce a record of internal structures. 2D digital images are reassembled using computer and software methods to produce exquisitely fine detailed 3D digital models of the solid internal structures in full color.
Because polishing can be controlled tightly, layers may be removed in the in the nanometer realm. This implies the limiting barrier in resolution ...
Self Powered Electricity Generation System
This system is consists of a fly wheel and a pulley connected together by a belt. As the fly wheel stores energy, it will increase the torque of motor. The fly wheel is powered by an electric motor. The wheel drives the pulley that is connected to an electric generator. A part of the electricity generated will be transferred back to the motor (driving the wheel) and the remaining power can be used to operate any ...
Drill Driven Carpenter Pencil Sharpener
The Worlds ONLY Drill Driven Carpenters Pencil Sharpener!
Speedsharp.com
The patent pending "SpeedSharp" carpenter pencil sharpener is the first and only carpenter pencil sharpener that can both be drill driven AND used by hand. The unique design allows everyone from the professional to the homeowner to quickly and safely sharpen their carpenters pencil.
Why use a Carpenters pencil? Round pencils not only break easily but will ROLL off of the work surface!
Why use the SpeedSharp?
The usual technique to sharpen a carpenters pencil is to use a utility knife or handheld sharpener. Using the utility knife method often ...
One-Handed/Two-Handed Keyboard
New Port Richey, Florida United States
Jun 24, 2011
This is an innovative keyboard design that can be operated one handed, left or right hand, or with both hands, by pressing only one or two of the ten buttons. There is one key for each finger but each finger can cross the 2mm divide and press two buttons. When one button is pressed & released or a second is pressed, input is generated from the 100 possible keystrokes.
The alphabet is produced with a single press or with one of the thumbs "shifted", index fingers provide punctuation and pinkies produce numbers. It is all mapped out in a ...
Economical Pulsejet Engine for Civil Aerospace
The MAJX Aerospace Powerplant is an airbreathing open cycle jet engine employing valveless, high frequency impulse reaction technology. As a pulsed detonation reactor/ramjet hybrid having no moving parts, MAJX is able to achieve substantially greater levels of combustion kinetics than steady state systems, which translates directly to higher fuel efficiency and a superior thrust-to-weight ratio.
Offering an ultra-low manufacturing cost and virtually maintenance free, MAJX has the potential to radically alter the economics of the emerging personal jet marketplace, and confer revolutionary cost effectiveness for military flight applications. Operable on Jet-A, JP-5/8, 100LL Avgas, Gasoline, LNG/LPG, or Alcohol, the ...
Electro-Chemical Machine (ECM) Sinking and Turning
Electro-Chemical Machining is a non-traditional way of machining conductive materials. This way is based on the electrolysis concept, as the current passes from tool to workpiece through the electrolyte, the workpiece is to be ionized, then ions are moved tending to precipitate on the tool but it will be flushed by the flow of the electrolyte; due to ions removal, a cavity is produced having a shape which is similar to that of the used tool with little bit lrger dimensions. This difference in dimensions is because of the flow of the electrical charges. Because of this difference the ...
Motorized Television Mount
This is a Mount that allows you to control your TV Mount. You can customized this mount to different angles and heights with a retracting track that allows the television to come to you when you need it to. This will be controlled by remote control and can be station from above you bed to on your wall and anywhere in between. it can get as low as four feet from a fourteen foot ceiling. It has inter locking and retracting bars that attach to the brackets on the television. Which allows you to be able to clean and ...
Automatic Sheet Sorter
Automatic Sheet Sorter for separating zero defect sheets from a batch of printed bio-sensor base arrays.
Sensor arrays are produced on sheets that later on make up multiple of finished biomedical sensors. During the manufacturing process of these arrays various in process tests and measurements are performed. This example focuses on the manufacture and inspection of the carbon layer of a blood glucose sensor. Variations in the print process of this layer result in sheets where some of the sensors are outside their acceptable tolerance range but do not deem the entire array defective. However these sensors need to ...
Mini Turbojet Engine
Aviation is one of the main fields in transportation. Aside from being faster than piston engines, turbojets have greater reliability with about 99.9%. The manufacture of UAVs is quite multifaceted and is a challenging task. This homebuilt mini turbojet engine can be widely used for propelling UAVs and as auxiliary power units. Early turbojet engines consumed large amounts of fuel and did not produce high power output. Their weight to power ratio was poor. They would consume 1.2 to 1.5 pounds of fuel per hour for every pound of thrust they produced. Today’s turbofan engines consume as little as 0.25 pounds ...
Hydrogen Green Lawn System
The Lund Technologies Hydrogen Green Lawn System is the world’s first Hydrogen-powered commercial lawnmower system, consisting of both a Walk Behind Mower and a Riding Mower, developed by Lund Technologies, LLC in conjunction with John Deere and Argonne National Labs. Developed for the City of Chicago Parks District, this lawn-care system was designed through more than 10 years of research and discovery in Hydrogen technology. The end result is a sleek and powerful environmentally-friendly lawn system that uses a completely renewable power source, ideal for large scale commercial use.
The Invention Story of the Hydrogen Green Lawn System:
Lund ...
Mini Combo Turbine: 120 mpg Automobile
To make a super-efficient environmentally-friendly engine, one would like to utilize two processes where the waste of the first process becomes the fuel of the second process.
A gas turbine is highly efficient because it burns fuel at high temperatures and because it maintains a constant speed at its most fuel efficient velocity. Because of this, it exhausts huge amounts of waste heat. A typical automotive combustion engine cannot exceed 25% efficiency because of the nature of the four stroke engine. A gas turbine typically achieves about 32% efficiency.
A steam turbine utilizes a boiler to superheat water into ...
Clean Coal Wastewater Treatment
Clean Coal Wastewater Treatment
Clean coal wastewater treatment is a unique concept that (1) mitigates the harmful atmospheric emissions associated with coal combustion and (2) eliminates the pollution of waterways caused by wastewater treatment plant effluent discharges. In addition to its pollution control features, the technology yields pipeline-quality natural gas and algae-based products, such as animal feed, fertilizer and biofuel feedstock.
Clean coal wastewater treatment begins with the “hydromethanation” process. The inputs for the hydromethanation process are a carbon source (such as coal or biomass) and water. The process converts the carbon source into pipeline-quality natural gas (methane) and ...
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