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2012
Machinery & Equipment

Manta Ray Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

The Manta Ray Unmanned Underwater Riverine Craft (UURC) is designed to perform clandestine, persistent surveillance in riverine, inlets, harbors, and other coastal shallow water environments as well as providing a platform that can provide extended time-on-station research.

The Manta Ray is an Unmanned Underwater Systems (UUS) designed to operate in harsh environments (obstacles, weeds, shallow water, etc).

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Richard Adams
Madison, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 11601
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 28, 2012

Mechanical Sealed Gland Valve

MECHANICAL SEALED GLAND VALVE

Three figures viz. Fig.1, Fig.2 & Fig.3 are attached. Fig.1 shows a typical globe valve with gland rope arrangement. Fig.2 shows a globe valve with a typical mechanical seal arrangement in lieu of gland rope arrangement. Fig.3 shows the magnified view of mechanical seal assembled inside the valve. Referring to Fig.2 and Fig.

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Ravi Paramanandam
Chengalpattu, India
Votes: 0
Views: 7487
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 21, 2012

Microwave Powered Bug Eradication Device

This is a means of killing bed bug infestation in bed mattresses and other hard to treat areas that can handle exposure to microwave energy, yet the use of insecticides is not welcomed. The diagram gives a basic design layout for building a microwave transmitter to provide short-range microwave exposure to areas where bed bugs might be hiding.

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Harry Spurrier
Bellvue, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3987
Machinery & Equipment
Jul 1, 2012

Mine Detecting Boots

This design is a concept of incorporating mine detection electrics within the fabric of military boots for protecting our troops by outfitting the boots with mine detectors. Simple and cheap.

It can also be made available to many of the warring countries to protect civilians.

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Larry Lueder
Mantua, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4539
Machinery & Equipment
May 17, 2012

Mobile Robotic Industrial System

Many biological species have disappeared or evolved through the history of our planet. Such could be the fate of mankind – to disappear or to evolve. What makes us different from other biological species is CONSCIOUSNESS.Through the centuries, people have looked for ways to preserve it, even after death.

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Vasil Kenderov
Bourgas, Bulgaria
Votes: 0
Views: 4824
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 28, 2012

Molecular Microscope and Nano-Fabricator

This two part device includes (1) a special type of microscope capable of analyzing biological molecules down to the atomic level in their natural fluid (folded) state and (2) a molecular fabricator that will use this surface knowledge to create custom antibodies highly specific to the analyzed molecule.

Harvesting cancer cells from a patient,

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Dr. Robert Indech
Norcross, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 6573
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2012

Multi Operational Tool

In this time of inflation and space crisis in the manufacturing and construction industry, there is a tool that could do much more than its operation. There are tools available in the market similar with multiple functionality, but the uniqueness in this tool is that each operation is done at the angle of convenience; e.g.,

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Karan Shah
Mumbai, India
Votes: 26
Views: 5610
Machinery & Equipment
Mar 13, 2012

Nanocoating Tool: Linear Self-Assembly

Expensive, new functional materials such as organic semiconductors, semiconducting Quantum Dots (QDs), nanowires and graphene all require deposition of ultra-thin, precise coatings, often as monolayers … but cost effective application of such precise micro- and nano-coatings, to include self-assembly of 2D monolayers of nanoscale particles at high yields and Roll-to-Roll (R2R) rates (e.g.

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George Powch
South Burlington, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 6795
Machinery & Equipment
May 18, 2012

Navigatorscope

The navigatorscope can be defined as a smart navigating wire with optical capabilities to inspect difficult-to-access-to areas in medium and large size pipes. The navigatorscope design resembles a flexible borescope. The body of the navigatorscope is made of rubber having a density of 1100 Kg/m3 and a young modulus of elasticity of around 10MPa,

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Hector Medina
Richmond, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3889
Machinery & Equipment
May 22, 2012

New Battery for Mobile Applications

The modern vehicles operate with lead-acid batteries, which are not environmentally correct, beyond the fact that they are expensive and have toxic products (sulfuric acid and the lead itself). In this work, a new idea is proposed in order to replace such electrochemical systems with new compounds. This new type of battery would be an aluminum-copper battery.

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Cleiton Porciuncula
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Votes: 0
Views: 5963
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 27, 2012

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