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Safe, Low-Cost, High-Energy-Density, Solid-State Li-ion Batteries
Published Tuesday, October 20, 2015BackgroundThe adoption of the lithium-ion batteries in the consumer electronics, electric vehicle, and aerospace industries has grown exponentially over the years. Despite this growth, a call for a safer and more efficient rechargeable battery solution is at hand since lithium-ion batteries’ dangerous pressurized flammable liquid...
Categories: Devices, Engineering, Microelectronics, Power Electronics
Keyword(s): Soild-state, Lithium-ion, battery, 525
Docket: PS-2013-033
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Fly-Ear Inspired Miniature Acoustic Sensor System
Published Monday, October 12, 2015Conventional directional microphones have various constraints when attempting to deliver high performance along with a small footprint. There is performance degradation when size decreases relative to the target sound wavelength. Thus, there is a need for a miniature microphone that is able to provide excellent sound source localization....
Categories: Sensors/Monitors, Microelectronics, Engineering, Devices
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2010-023
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One-sided Binary Tree-Based Crossbar Switch Fabrics
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background: One-sided crossbar fabric is well-suited to interconnecting active ports such as line cards in network routers and peripheral devices in computer systems where ports serve both as inputs and outputs. Its simple topology and straightforward routing makes it more attractive for network-on-chip and system-on-chip designs compared to...
Categories: Engineering, Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Devices
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-057
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Distributed Row-Column Decoding For A Mesh Switch
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background: Crossbar switches are employed in network routers, multiprocessor interconnections and programmable logic chips. While their highly regular structure makes them attractive for VLSI and optical implementations, the existing routing models for crossbar switches make them impractical for such applications. Switch using (n x r) cross-...
Categories: Power Electronics, Devices, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-100
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Personal Robotic Air-conditioning Device
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015BackgroundHeating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems have made tremendous gains in full-load efficiency over decades of research. However, the efficiencies of many full-load HVAC systems are approaching a maximum where it will not be cost effective to improve these systems any further. In many cases, in order to reduce energy...
Categories: Clean Tech, Chemical, Devices, Industrial Processing, Robotics
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-101
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Distributed Row-Column Decoding For A One-Sided Mesh Switch
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background: One-sided crossbar fabric is well-suited to interconnecting active ports such as line cards in network routers and peripheral devices in computer systems where ports serve both as inputs and outputs. Its simple topology and straightforward routing makes it more attractive for network-on-chip and system-on-chip designs compared to...
Categories: Microelectronics, Power Electronics, Devices
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-102
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Single Material All Solid-State Lithium-ion Battery
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background:The current all-solid-state Li-ion batteries consist of three distinct components: an anode, an electrolyte, and a cathode. In addition, current collectors are also used to ensure electron transport through the electrodes and the external circuit. The anode, cathode, and electrolyte normally use three different materials due to the...
Categories: Devices, Engineering, Power Electronics, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): Solid-State, Lithium-ion, battery, Anode, Cathode, Energy storage
Docket: PS-2014-143
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Emergency Oxygenation Kit
Published Wednesday, May 27, 2015A few minutes of oxygen deprivation can lead to lifelong brain damage and brain death is inevitable unless blood oxygen levels are restored to normal. Emergency oxygen delivery systems are available for first aid use and can save lives by providing short-term oxygenation until the patient arrives at a medical facility....
Investigator(s): Jeff Wolf, Aldo Iacono
Categories: Devices
Keyword(s): emergency oxygenation, apneic patient, battlefield, Critical Care, Airway Management
Docket: JW-2011-054
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Device and Cloud-Based System to Reduce Lower Back Injury in the Workforce
Published Sunday, May 17, 2015Background:A solution to lower-back pain in the workplace needs to be addressed. Lower-back pain is the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed workdays. In fact, the total direct costs of chronic lower-back pain related health care utilization are estimated to be about $100 million a year (Mehra, 2012...
Categories: Devices, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): Back Injury mitigation
Docket: PS-2015-006
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Portable Multi-Parameter Cancer Diagnostic Device
Published Sunday, May 17, 2015Background: Each year in USA alone, more than 200,000 breast cancer cases are diagnosed. The transformation from benign to cancerous state changes the morphological signatures in the tumor environment. Mechanical and electrical phenotyping has been demonstrated as a promising technique to study the progression of the breast cancer. Thus, a...
Categories: Diagnostics, Platforms, Devices
Keyword(s): breast cancer, Cancer Diagnosis
Docket: PS-2015-017