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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An apparatus for in-plane biaxial tension/compression and in-plane shear testing of fabrics, other flexible sheet materials, or relatively rigid thin plate materials has been invented. The...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A five-year program comprising several coordinated research efforts was devoted to increasing understanding and developing capabilities for computational modeling of the effects of...
Products
Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions (Brockton, MA) has introduced the 700 Series Air Transport Rack (ATR) rugged enclosures for cooling in a range of harsh environment applications. The enclosures protect air-cooled cards,...
Products
Glacier Computer (New Milford, CT) offers a heated touchscreen for its Everest line of computers. The heated touchscreen enables the computer to be used in harsh environments in which the computer goes...
Products
The Multi-Platform Enclosure (MPE) from SprayCool (Liberty Lake, WA) uses a two-phase cooling technology for use in mission-critical military applications. The technology uses a fine mist of non-corrosive, non-conductive...
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The MFP-1200 military-grade 28 Vdc power supply from Amrel/American Reliance (El Monte, CA) powers DC devices in harsh outdoor environments. The 1.2-kW system is housed in a 16 × 7.5 × 3.5" package....
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The 303-Relay Test System from SemiTek International (Richardson, TX) is a parametric relay test system that features user-friendly operating software and a modular design for inspection applications. It features programmable...
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Scalable Network Technologies (Los Angeles, CA) has released QualNet 4.5 modeling and simulation software for predicting wireless, wired, and mixed-platform network and networking device performance in the...
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Numerical Algorithms Group (Lisle, IL) has introduced the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB ®, which gives users access to more than 1,300 additional math and statistical algorithms within the MATLAB environment through the NAG...
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IDS Microchip AG (Wollerau SZ, Switzerland) has introduced the IDS-SL 13A smart active label chip that automatically tracks, monitors, time-stamps, and records information about any product in a supply chain on land, on the...
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Saelig (Pittsford, NY) has released the UPSICAP™ line of passive and active sensors that measure ambient temperature and relative humidity. The 9 × 8-mm passive elements vary capacitance with humidity and...
A technology that picks out minute abnormalities in forged documents or suspicious biological spores has been developed by Chem - Image Corp. of Pittsburgh, PA through funding from the...
Laser televisions have an image produced by three lasers that are each less than one cubic centimeter in size and that are a million times brighter than current state-of-the-art light-emitting...
Under a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Nova Sensors of Solvang, CA, developed a family of camera systems that provide...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Near-field light lenses for focusing beams of light and beams of atoms to spots having a width of no more than several nanometers are undergoing development. There are numerous...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Progress has been made on several fronts in a continuing program of research oriented toward the development of real-time algorithms, and computer and control systems that utilize the...
Briefs: Materials
Electrochromic devices that exhibited adjustable infrared emissivity were developed in a research program that was part of a larger effort to develop adaptive infrared camouflage....
Briefs: Materials
A developmental method of increasing the thermal conductance of an adhesive joint in a composite-material structure (or between a composite-material structure and another structure)...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Polymer composites that are photorefractive at visible and near- infrared wavelengths, and devices that exploit their photorefractivity, have been demonstrated. Potential applications...
Briefs: Information Technology
Cooperative Control of Robotic Aircraft
A document reviews a multidisciplinary research program oriented toward development of a rigorous theoretical foundation, and scalable analytical tools and paradigms, for construction of cooperative, networked control for numerous autonomous and semi-autonomous aircraft. This research has addressed issues...
Briefs: Materials
Oxide and Nitride Films for Tunable Capacitors and HEMTs
A report describes research on thin oxide films intended for use as variable-high-permittivity dielectrics in advanced tunable capacitors and on thin nitride films as starting materials for advanced high-electron- mobility transistors (HEMTs). In this research, a custom molecular-beam-epitaxy...
Briefs: Materials
Flexible Biohybrid Nanomembranes for Multifunctional Sensors
A document describes recent activities in a continuing effort to develop devices, based on biohybrid nanomembranes, that would perform diverse sensory functions. The term "biohybrid nanomembranes" signifies flexible organic/inorganic composite membranes, of the order of tens of nanometers...
Articles: Motion Control
Solving a machine vision application, whether it involves quality inspection, part verification or any number of additional tasks, requires taking several factors into...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Machine vision systems are playing an increasingly important role in many industrial applications, whether it is counting parts on an assembly line or examining surfaces for defects....
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Recent advances in motion control and machine vision technologies present tremendous opportunities for Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) systems. Thanks to recent developments in these fundamental...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Meister Group, a Belgian industrial group supplying the automobile market, successfully deployed Cognex’s machine vision system to help its robotic assembly cell sort out...
Application Briefs: Imaging
IDS Camera Automates Inspection
Until now, machine-based surface inspection methods have checked visual quality by means of direct or transmitted light in conjunction with a camera system. When it comes to the automated inspection of reflective and smooth surfaces, however, these methods involve problems. The resulting reflections need to be either...
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Slipstream Series from LM76 (East Longmeadow, MA) 1 linear stage features 0.2mm/300mm accuracy and 0.1mm repeatability. Available in travel lengths to 6 meters, the precision stage has T-Slots on three sides for...
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
The P-653 piezo motor from Physik Instrumente (Auburn, MA) is smaller than other miniature linear stages and provides higher velocity and resolution. The linear motor system comprises only four parts and provides speeds of up to 200...
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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.