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Lepping - Dively G-vac
Published Tuesday, June 23, 2009Researchers from the University of Maryland, Department of Entomology have designed a novel collection device for soil-dwelling organisms, specifically arthropods. The unique collection chamber is designed to accommodate large samples that include soil and detritus. Sampling devices currently on the market are not designed to collect...
Categories: Devices, Agricultural
Keyword(s): Arthropod collection, 525
Docket: PS-2007-041
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Hybrid Frequency-Adaptive Vibration Energy Harvester
Published Tuesday, June 2, 2009Due to the ever increasing miniaturization of electronic systems that are ubiquitous in our daily lives, providing power for these small scale applications poses a significant problem. Supplying power with power lines can be difficult or simply not possible, while battery supplies at a smaller scale furnish limited power for a limited amount of...
Categories: Power Electronics, Devices
Keyword(s): hybrid frequency adaptive vibration energy harvester
Docket: PS-2008-076
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Microfluidic Mass Spectrometer Utilizing Protein Nanopores
Published Sunday, May 17, 2009NOT REVIEWED BY INVENTORArtificial BLMs have been widely used to investigate fundamental electrophysiology kinetics including ion channel formation and transduction. Standard macro-scale approaches suffer from well known issues, mainly poor BLM lifetimes, laborious formation techniques, and limited data collection throughput. Recently...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Devices, Microfluidics
Keyword(s): microfluidic mass spectrometer protein nanopores
Docket: PS-2007-067
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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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Non-Contact Magnetostrictive Torque Sensor
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008As sensors become integrated in more applications, interest in Magnetostrictive sensor technology has blossomed. Magnetostrictive sensors take advantage of the efficient coupling between the elastic and magnetic states of a material to facilitate sensing a quantity of interest.Researchers at the department of Aerospace Engineering at the...
Categories: Devices, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): Magnetostrictive sensors, Strain gages, Torque measurement, 525
Docket: PS-2007-020
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Low Profile F-Inverted Compact Antenna (FICA)
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008The antenna size is one of the major limitations in miniaturizing wireless communication equipment. Chip antennas and planar inverted F antennas (PIFAs) have already appeared on the market due to their low profile, small size and effective integration with transceiver chips on circuit boards. However these antennas perform well only if a ground...
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Microelectronics, Power Electronics, Devices
Keyword(s): Antenna design, WSN, 525
Docket: PS-2007-046
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Positioning Quantum Dots in Devices by Electroosmotic Feedback Control
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are ideal candidates for storing and manipulating quantum information. To perform scalable quantum computation and long distance quantum networking requires the ability to deterministically position and fix many QDs into a single device, and ability that is currently not available. Such integration would enable one...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Engineering, Devices
Keyword(s): positioning quantum dots electro-osmotic feedback control
Docket: PS-2007-118
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Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Brain tumors, which occur in 20-40% of adult cancer patients, are among the most feared complications of the disease. Despite numerous advances in treatment, the prognosis for these patients is poor, with a median survival of 4-8 months. The primary reasons for the poor survival rate are the lack of good continuous imaging modality for...
Categories: Imaging devices, Surgical devices, Robotics, Devices
Keyword(s): minimally invasive neurosurgical intercranial robot
Docket: PS-2007-088
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Frequency and Force Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Amplitude-modulation tapping-mode atomic force microscopy (AM-AFM) has developed into an important imaging tool for surface characterization. Despite its technical advances it succumbs to imaging bistability caused by the co-existence of attractive and repulsive imaging regimes, and potential sample damage in the repulsive regime....
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Devices, Engineering
Keyword(s): atomic force microscopy
Docket: PS-2007-001
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Biologically-Inspired Visually Implemented Blending in a Local Environment (B-InVisIBLE) Active Camouflage
Published Monday, October 29, 2007A flexible, conformable display mechanism has been described that is capable of creating a wide variety of color combinations and spatial patterns, which uses the chromatophores and reflective underlying layer of cuttlefish skin as biological inspiration. Basic operation is similar in concept to the operation of passive-matrix LCDs, whereby the...
Categories: Devices
Keyword(s): environment, artificial, cuttle fish, active camoflauge
Docket: PS-2007-070