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2011
Machinery & Equipment

Sol-Stak

Introduction

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Sol-Stak is an open, small system, embedded prototyping paradigm.

We do a lot of prototyping across multiple vendor systems. Reference designs and software support for these systems are a fragmented, multi-standard, multi-faceted, mess.

Prototyping embedded systems has very particular focus and objectives.

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Guy Mcilroy
Los Gatos, United States
Votes: 15
Views: 4561
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 23, 2011

Solar Generation - Output Smoothing

The intermittent nature of solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation creates a considerable barrier to relying on it as a source of consistent energy. Solar intermittency and power fluctuations vary greatly over the course of a day, in time intervals ranging from seconds to minutes.

To address this problem,

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Nano Tune
Mountain View, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 4561
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2011

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.

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Rahul Bihade
Pune, India
Votes: 4
Views: 8449
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2011

Step Master - Reborn

Redesign the step master to include working out the upper body (New Design) at the same time you work out the lower body (existing machine).

It has two options for working out your upper body:

Option 1) From pulling, will work out the arms biceps/tripceps,

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Juan Cortes
Riverside, United States
Votes: 6
Views: 4172
Machinery & Equipment
May 5, 2011

Stress Corrosion Prediction Modeling Software

Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) is a sudden and difficult-to-predict severe degradation mode of failure of nuclear, petrochemical, and other industries. This is a development proposal for a methodological software based in: the propensity of SCC failure plus a kinetic model link which better describes the failure evolution.

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Omar Fernandes Aly
São Paulo, Brazil
Votes: 0
Views: 5589
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 13, 2011

Swirl Drive

Call it the Swirl Drive. The purpose of the idea is to improve on the Mecanum-type drive system by increasing traction and stability (and utilizing more off-the-shelf components), while retaining its simplicity, maneuverability and control system.

How the idea works: Start with a motor-driven turntable rotating parallel with the floor.

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Brent Cottingham
Kentwood, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5419
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 27, 2011

Tire Cord Splitting Machine

This simple equipment is designed to improve efficiency and cost effectiveness level regarding time and material spent in tire manufacturing processes.

In current textile plies knitwork stage as initial process to make casing plies, there is a lot of longitude tire cords where each of them have diameters 5 times larger than the latitude with approximately 10 meters length.

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Antonius J. Priyambodo
Tangerang Selatan, Indonesia
Votes: 0
Views: 4091
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2011

Vacuum Tile Grid System

The Vacuum Tile Grid System is a multifunctional system designed to keep shop floors clean and safer by providing a solution to keep dust off shop floors.

This grid system has the flexibility of being incorporated into any manufacturing environment which utilizes machinery that generates fine dust or large shavings.

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Jeff Farnese
New Westminster, Canada
Votes: 5
Views: 3642
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 26, 2011

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).

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Carl Seguin
Pierrefonds, Canada
Votes: 94
Views: 7328
Machinery & Equipment
May 19, 2011

Water from Air for Humanitarian Relief Operations

In times of natural disaster potable water and electrical power are scarce. Water is both heavy and heavily used, therefore it is most economical to transport fuel as a source of power and make the water locally from the moisture in the air. The mechanism proposed will provide both emergency power and water.

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Anush Badii
La Jolla, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4311
Machinery & Equipment
May 1, 2011

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