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2011
Machinery & Equipment

Metronome Boom

Metronome Boom

A mechanical boom arm can be articulated 360 degrees from a single actuator which is electrically controlled. The design is scalable and has a wide range of uses.

The design is basic; a central vertical shaft is a helical coil whose proportions, materials and torsion are scaled to the load of the task.

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Johnnie Perkins
San Jose, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4059
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 12, 2011

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,

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Frederick Burke
San Diego, United States
Votes: 4
Views: 6432
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2011

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.

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Shama K.v.
Salem, India
Votes: 2
Views: 10232
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 12, 2011

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.

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Lionel Murray
Hyattaville, United States
Votes: 4
Views: 4329
Machinery & Equipment
Apr 22, 2011

Neural Signal Recognition (NSR)

Abstract:

Any task that we perform is a result of the thoughts that is generated in our brain. When a thought is originated, a certain chemical reaction is carried out in the brain. These signals in the form of chemical are converted into electrical form by a part of the neuron called synapse.

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Amit Sohara
Nasik, India
Votes: 0
Views: 3969
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 28, 2011

New Design of CV Joint

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.

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Martin Gecik
Presov, Slovak Republic
Votes: 24
Views: 12217
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2011

One-Handed/Two-Handed Keyboard

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.

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Wayne Rasanen
New Port Richey, United States
Votes: 16
Views: 29562
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 24, 2011

Optical Fiber Implant Machine

I invented a machine (#1 in Picture) that evolved into three different CNC machine configurations designed to permanently implant plastic optical fibers into any flexible materials including fabrics for apparel, vinyls, light plastics, coroplast, cardboard, gatorboard, etc. Each fiber is then assigned and placed into a comb position that will be attached to an LED (Monochromatic or RGB).

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Lee Wainwright
Bethlehem, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3960
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 26, 2011

Optimizing Structures

To optimize a structure after a FEM analysis I think it needs to make a relaxing iteration of the mathematical array of equations first relaxing the length of the elements than the area of the section and returning to relaxing the length and the sections until the error between one iteration and the next is under a certain value

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Mattia Tristo
San Giacomo Di Albignasego, Italy
Votes: 1
Views: 3550
Machinery & Equipment
May 27, 2011

Peanut Wrench

The problem being solved:

A collection of common types and sizes of wrenches (Standard, Flexible, S-Shape, Half Moon, etc.) are needed to safely tighten or loosen a fastener and without damage to the fastener. Such a collection of wrenches can become quite large. Accordingly, the cost to accumulate a large collection of wrenches can get expensive. Also, bigger,

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Jack Nguyen
San Clemente, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 4547
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 4, 2011

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