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2012
Machinery & Equipment

How to Prevent a Robot Rebellion

Any good machine design must both start at the top with high-level concepts and then immediately restart at the bottom. Good designs will eventually meet themselves in the middle. Today, the very pinnacle of our machine designs, the defining relationship between man and machine, is one of master-slave.

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Tom Riley
Baltimore, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4666
Machinery & Equipment
Mar 5, 2012

Hydraulic Bearing

HYDRAULIC BEARING

*All the weight of the axis spins on a hydraulic fluid, eliminating the need for metallic rollers.

*Works with a very low pressure due the great contact surface. Approximately 71 psi (5kgf/cm2).

*The fluid pressure causes the flotation and the equilibrium of the inner body of the bearing.

***New, non-obvious, useful (PCT/OMPI 2012).

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Nadilton De Souza Monteiro
Governador Valadares, Brazil
Votes: 0
Views: 4116
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 13, 2012

Implementable Multi-component Solution to Capture and Contain Oil and Gases Escaping from Fractured Vertical Pipes on Underwater Oil Drilling Platforms

The state of the art solution proposed herein involves the introduction of components made from 2 newly-described, patent-pending crystalline alloys, which compose a multi-sectional pre-fabricated alloy girder-pin frame, which surrounds the entire oil platform (from the vertical level of the platform, all the way down to the mud of the ocean floor).

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Harvey Kaplan
Chicago, United States
Votes: 14
Views: 5263
Machinery & Equipment
Jul 1, 2012

Improved Dispense Pump

The goal was to design a highly accurate, cost effective dispense pump that would be 100% PTFE (Teflon) in the wetted flow path which results in excellent chemical resistance to acids and bases. PTFE also has extremely low surface energy which results in minimal retention for bio-pharma applications.

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Kenji Kingsford
Kamas, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 7443
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 11, 2012

Inflatable Dish Communication System

Team JURBAN has designed an efficient, long-range communications device that can fit within a 24 inch cubic enclosure. Using an inflatable dish from GATR technologies as a low-powered, high gain antenna (0 in antenna capable of a 2Mbps data link rate, with four back-up,

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Blaze Sanders
Baltimore, United States
Votes: 12
Views: 4735
Machinery & Equipment
Jul 1, 2012

Intermittent Fault Detection & Isolation System (IFDIS)

There is a growing problem that threatens the operational readiness, sustainment and ownership cost of military aircraft. However, recent technical developments have made possible a new inspection method that greatly mitigates this threat, and now multiple Air Force, Navy and NATO case studies are validating the effectiveness of this new capability.

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Ken Anderson
Roy, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4594
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 11, 2012

LED/Optic Display Production Machine

The machine I invented uses Ultraviolet light to instantly weld PMMA Plastic Optical Fibers into any flexible material that a hollow point stainless steel needle can penetrate. The CNC machine I commissioned a company to build based on my invention requires an input data file designating the X,

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Harry Wainwright
Easton, United States
Votes: 13
Views: 8350
Machinery & Equipment
Mar 1, 2012

Low Cost Cell Culture Bioreactors

To produce bio-fertilizer from microbiological organisma involving bio-process equipment called Bio-reactors. The objective of this product is to produce a low cost bio-reactor.

Bio-reactor processes are described in the following sequences:

1. Cleaning Culture Tank with Disinfectant/Alcohol.

2. Filling Culture Tank with Culture Media.

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Sandi Sufiandi
Hachioji, Japan
Votes: 0
Views: 4277
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 8, 2012

Lunar Exploration Mission by Reusing Disused LEO Observation Satellite

Background:

Nowadays security space activities are seriously threatened by space debris, more than 300,000 fragments in orbit. The most orbital debris is from disused LEO satellite. If we do not clean it up, the space debris problem will get worse. I suggest a method for reusing disused LEO observation satellites for the lunar exploration to reduce space debris.

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Jeongbeom Kim
Asan, Korea
Votes: 0
Views: 5000
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 19, 2012

Magnetic Conveyor (FERMAG) Transforms the Energy of Static Magnetic Fields into Mechanical Energy

This system, completely innovative and original, is the normal evolution of a series of machines that, using the principle of interference of static magnetic fields, including the paternity claim, can be used to produce mechanical energy.

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Paolo Ferri
Ascoli Piceno, Italy
Votes: 0
Views: 4544
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 2, 2012

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