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World’s Highest Energy Density Thin Film Battery
Published Tuesday, June 2, 2009The market for thin film batteries is projected for explosive growth in the coming years. Thin film batteries are enabling the proliferation of electronic devices in ubiquitous applications not possible before, including wireless sensor networks, active RFID, wearable electronics, and medical devices. Conventional battery technologies have...
Categories: Power Electronics, Materials, Engineering
Keyword(s): flexible high energy density rechargeable battery solar harvesting
Docket: PS-2008-041
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S.P.U.R.S. (Suspension Power Utilization and Recovery System)
Published Tuesday, June 2, 2009Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed an improved electromechanical system that converts kinetic energy of an automobile’s suspension system, among others, in addition to existing braking conversion systems. This suspension energy harvesting system is also known as SPURS (Suspension Power Utilization and Recovery System)...
Categories: Engineering, Power Electronics, Clean Technology
Keyword(s): hybrid automobile suspension energy harvesting
Docket: PS-2008-098
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Efficient Sulfur and Energy Recovery With Novel Isothermal Thermal Flame Reactor
Published Tuesday, June 2, 2009The Claus process is considered to be an industry standard for recovering elemental sulfur from gaseous hydrogen sulfide (H2S). The removal of H2S is desirable due to the detrimental effect H2S has on the environment and human health. However, the gases which accompany H2S in the recovery/removal process impact the optimum reactor temperature...
Categories: Chemical, Engineering, Clean Technology, Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): Efficient Sulfur Energy Recovery Novel Isothermal Thermal Flame Reactor
Docket: PS-2008-120
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Ultra Low Emission Colorless Distributed Combustor
Published Tuesday, June 2, 2009BackgroundEngines currently utilize the injection of fuel and oxidant into the combustion chamber in diffusion or premixed mode to transform the chemical energy of fuel into thermal energy. Using available methods, which rely on the Colorless Distributed Combustor (CDC), engine manufacturers face challenges of combustion instability,...
Categories: Clean Technology, Engineering, Aerospace, Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): Fuel Efficient Ultra Low Emission Colorless Distributed Combustor Gas Turbine Stationary Propulsion Systems
Docket: PS-2008-129
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Lunar Laser Ranging Array for the 21st Century - LLRA-21
Published Monday, May 18, 2009This invention proposes one or more improved retroreflector arrays on the moon. Today the linear dimension of the array, combined with the (geometric) lunar librations, results in a return pulse that has a full with at half maximum (FWHM) of about 8 cm. The improvement is by a factor of 5. the goal of this invention is to provide an improved array...
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Engineering
Keyword(s): lunar laser ranging array
Docket: PS-2007-082
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Separate and/or Combined Sensible and Latent Cooling
Published Monday, May 18, 2009This invention provides an improved energy efficiency and better thermal comfort for cooling systems via an automatic adaptation of operating modes according to the sensible and latent load ratio. Conventional air conditioning systems are designed to simultaneously meet sensible and latent loads in order to meet a typical sensible heat factor (...
Categories: Engineering, Chemical, Clean Technology, Industrial Processing
Keyword(s): separate combined sensible latent cooling
Docket: PS-2007-109
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Sensible and Latent Cooling
Published Monday, May 18, 2009This invention provides an improved energy efficiency and better thermal comfort for cooling systems via an automatic adaptation of operating modes according to the sensible and latent load ratio. Conventional air conditioning systems are designed to simultaneously meet sensible and latent loads in order to meet a typical sensible heat factor (...
Categories: Industrial Processing, Engineering, Chemical
Keyword(s): sensible latent cooling
Docket: PS-2007-112
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Post-Forming Extruded Profiles for Heat Transfer Applications Resulting in High Efficiency Cooling
Published Tuesday, April 14, 2009A majority of electronic devices are comprised of circuit boards with multiple heat generating chips of different height. Usually, machined high specification aluminum conduction plates or separate heat sinks are used for each chip. However, machined conduction plates are expensive and the use of separate heat sinks is complicated. Both have...
Categories: Materials, Engineering, Chemical, Devices
Keyword(s): extruded profiles heat transfer high efficiency cooling
Docket: PS-2007-058
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Multi-Objective Collaborative Robust Optimization (McRO)
Published Tuesday, August 19, 2008BackgroundEngineering design optimization methods involving “complex” systems often fall under Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), where complex refers to a system whose analysis involves multiple coupled subsystems (or disciplines). Several techniques have previously been developed and applied to single-objective optimization...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Information Technology, Engineering
Keyword(s): MDO, engineering design,optimization
Docket: IS-2008-068
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Kriging Metamodel Assisted Multi-Objective Optimization Software
Published Tuesday, August 19, 2008Although population based optimization methods, such as multi-objective genetic algorithms (hereinafter; “MOGAs”), have become very popular for engineering optimization problems because of their flexibility, the high computational cost associated with this type of methods has been preventing applications of these methods to more realistic...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Information Technology, Engineering
Keyword(s): engineering design, genetic algorithm, metamodel
Docket: IS-2008-070