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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Reconfigurable Computers (RCs) combine traditional microprocessors with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and are characterized by lower form/wrap factors compared to...
Briefs: Materials
A structural multifunctional fuel cell design enables material elements participating in power or energy processes to also carry significant structural loads. Power...
Briefs: Materials
Reactive materials can be loosely categorized as composites of inert solid materials which, when subjected to a violent mechanical...
NASA Tech Needs
NASA’s work in advanced aeronautics and space vehicle development relies on advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes such as FUN3D that rely on numerical solution of equations...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Kavlico, a unit of Custom Sensors & Technologies, Moorpark, CA, has introduced the P356 low-pressure gage/differential pressure sensor for applications requiring an operational life in excess of 10 years. Available in...
Eye on Innovation: Software
Product simplification is the discipline of merging the greatest performance functionality into the fewest number of parts using the most suitable and cost-effective materials and...
Briefs: Materials
Novel Conductive Coatings of Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are the material of ever-increasing concern due to their excellent electronic and physicochemical properties. Currently, research has been focused towards their applications for use in chemical and biological sensors as well as their use in optoelectronic devices. One of the...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Alexander Kashlinsky is a principal investigator on several NASA and NSF grants studying topics related to cosmological bulk flows, cosmic...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Water mist has been determined to be a preferred alternative to Halon 1301 total flooding to extinguish fires occurring in ship machinery spaces and pump rooms, because it is toxicologically...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An axial field electric motor comprises one or more elements such as a rotor mounted for rotation and multiple axial flux permanent magnets carried by the rotor. The axial flux permanent magnets are oriented such that...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Autonomous rotorcraft provide improved capability in performing military missions such as reconnaissance, targeting, border patrol, and environmental sensing. A common difficulty in...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Studies of Dynamic Fracture in Brittle Materials
A program of research spanning several years ending in November 2005 was dedicated primarily to formulation and analysis of canonical boundary- value problems in mathematical modeling of dynamic fracture in brittle materials. The sub-topics within the broad topic of dynamic fracture in brittle...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
A recently invented acceleration strain transducer is based on the principle of a conventional spring-and-mass acceleration transducer combined with a linear strain sensor that measures...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
A computational-simulation study of the flow of air through a thermo-anemometer chamber was performed to resolve what originally seemed to be an anomaly in the measurement data obtained by use of the...
Briefs: Information Technology
A study was performed to evaluate the accuracy achievable in the use of submodeling in finite-element modeling of the mechanical response of a structural system that includes components...
Briefs: Information Technology
Next-Generation Information Systems Architectures
A document describes a paradigm in which low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with wireless communication capability are used to assist networking among a set of ground stations. This new paradigm is attractive because UAVs can be dynamically deployed in a wide variety of geographical...
Techs for License
Green Sewage Treatment and Water Purification Technology
A green sewage treatment and water purification technology combines water with fertilizer and biomass production. The sustainable water treatment system produces biofuel and organic fertilizer, and extracts carbon from the atmosphere. No electric power is required for sewage treatment,...
Techs for License
Odor Removal From Recycled Plastics
This technology removes odors from recycled plastics, especially high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Odors absorbed from household or industrial liquids do not affect physical properties of the polymer, but make the recycled plastic unsuitable for consumer goods. Trace amounts of polyethylene imines blended with...
Tech Needs
Generating Sodium Hydroxide from Sodium Sulfate and Calcium Hydroxide
A company produces crystalline sodium sulfate as a byproduct, using sodium hydroxide as one of many feeds within the process. They seek to use the available compounds to produce it in situ. The company seeks a process that uses sodium sulfate and calcium oxide to produce sodium...
Tech Needs
Manufacturing Method for Joining Elastic Materials
A company seeks methods of joining identical elastic materials. The current method is to use adhesives to bond the elastic components physically, but adhesives lack the strength of a chemical bond or weld. A method of joining or bonding natural or synthetic rubber in a way that can withstand a 25-...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Future combat vehicles will require unconventional weapons and armor systems such as electromagnetic (EM) or electrothermal chemical (ETC) guns, electromagnetic (EM) armor, and directed-...
Articles: Aerospace
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are rudimentary bombs that generally consist of commonly found non-military materials. Although common IED threats include roadside bombs, suicide bombers...
Tech Transfer Reports: Materials
Traditionally, ceramics have been thought of as hard and brittle, yet able to tolerate high temperatures. Now, Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR) of Tucson, AZ has developed a method of...
Tech Transfer Reports
Someday, you may be able to go to your neighborhood drugstore and choose from a diagnostic kit that can test for high cholesterol, a faulty gene that predisposes you to diabetes,...
Products
The 9555 satellite phone from Iridium Satellite LLC (Bethesda, MD) is compact and features an intuitive user interface, speakerphone, Short Messaging Service and e-mail capabilities, an upgraded mini-USB data port, and an...
Products
Luxul Wireless (Lindon, UT) has released the Shock- WAV™ frequency-translating amplifier (FTA) for use in secure military, defense, and homeland security applications. The FTA converts signals generated by commercial...
Products
Real-Time Innovations (Sunnyvale, CA) offers RTI Data Distribution Service, Safety-Critical Edition, a smallfootprint version of real-time messaging middleware to meet safety certification standards such as DO-178B....
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The AST4520 media-isolated, submersible pressure sensor from American Sensor Technologies (Mt. Olive, NJ) features a flush diaphragm steel cage design with stainless steel construction for level monitoring of...
Products: Aerospace
Ballard Technology (Everett, WA) offers the Avionics BusBox 2000 Series, a DO-160 box designed for rugged environments. The embedded computer has built-in interfaces for standard peripherals and various avionics databases....
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
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From the Editor: Medical
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INSIDER: Medical
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Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Medical
Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
Podcasts: Design
Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices
Podcasts: AR/AI
Personalized Medicine and Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Green Design & Manufacturing
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.