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2010
Machinery & Equipment

The Concept

Introduction The concepts that I would like to present are a thermal-magnetic motor and a planetary transmission that operates off a set of calipers, instead of a band. I was first introduced to the thermal-magnetic motor in 1980. A thermal-magnetic motor works off the Currie Point of metals.

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Paul Rettich
Germantown, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5023
Machinery & Equipment
Mar 26, 2010

The Solar Forge

The Solar Forge is comprised of a large parabola section reflector, a carriage, and a target. The parabola concentrates sunlight, the carriage allows the parabola to track the sun, and the target makes the resulting heat available for a practical purpose. The Solar Forge concentrates enough power to be useful for small commercial processes in sunny climes,

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Tom Riley
Baltimore, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 6375
Machinery & Equipment
May 1, 2010

Universal Flight Computer for High Power Rocketry

The third generation modular Universal Flight Controller (UFC-3) was designed for the high end amateur high power rocketeer, primarily flights above 60,000' and for FAA Class III Rocketry.

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Tom Miller
Jonestown, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 8593
Machinery & Equipment
Mar 1, 2010

Valved two stroke engine with extended expansion

This proposal relates to conceptual design of "valved two stroke engine with extended expansion". In a four stroke engine, power stroke occurs once in a two rotation whereas in a two stroke power stroke occurs once in each rotation. Theoretically a two stroke engine produces double the power of four stroke engine .

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Ravi Paramanandam
Chengalpattu, India
Votes: 0
Views: 7600
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2010

Variable Angle Gearbox

Imagine having a ball with an input shaft and an output shaft that you can move to almost any position and still supply a constant power to the output shaft, even while moving.

It's easy to find a 90 degree gearbox. Such a gearbox can be mounted at any angle, but is stationary. Then there is the universal joint.

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Robert Cline
Bettendorf, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 6946
Machinery & Equipment
May 28, 2010

Variable Ratio Chain Drive

Variable ratio chain drives (derailleurs) are extremely efficient, but suffer from several problems:

1. They should not be shifted under load.

2. They should not be shifted while stopped.

3. The chain is side loaded for most gear combinations, limiting the useful combinations.

4. They are subject to jamming caused by the chain wedging between the gears.

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Ronald Phillips
Mogadore, United States
Votes: 5
Views: 8254
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 23, 2010

W-Select.

At present ,the high demand of dry food is very high and the process used commonly becomes very expensive to supply her involving high costs in machinery and qualified personnel.

The w-select is a technological tool that it allows at the companies to improve your productive processes optimizing time, resources and more important,

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Eliana Esthepany Melo Ceron
Manizales, Colombia
Votes: 32
Views: 5196
Machinery & Equipment
Apr 22, 2010

Water Mortar

Water Mortar Currently fire suppression systems use water at a flow rate of 750 to 1500 gpm. This causes alot of atomization, as a 1500 gpm flow is traveling at 120 mph, as it leaves a 1in nozzle. In a hot fire, most of this water is turned into steam, and goes into the atmosphere.

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Ried S. Hurtig
Pablo, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4399
Machinery & Equipment
Apr 12, 2010

YankeeDiesel, a more efficient engine

The Problem:

Diesel engines were invented more than one hundred years ago. Continuous refinements have made diesels cleaner, quieter and more powerful. Nevertheless, the basic principles of operation and overall design remain unchanged. For this reason, diesel engines retain several shortcomings they have always had.

Diesels are noisy and hard to start in cold weather.

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Paul Howard
Reston, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4194
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 18, 2010

Zoom for Mobile Phone Cameras

The invention is meant to replace the optical zoom.

PROBLEM:

Optical zoom is an expensive, heavy and complicated device with over 100 parts. Some other drawbacks are: long development times, very complex optical calculations, the large number of the lenses and it can't be miniaturized. Compared to the high costs, the optical quality is rather poor,

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Andreas Obrebski
Oberkotzen, Germany
Votes: 0
Views: 4140
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 22, 2010

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