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This Spinal Injury Protector for fighter aircraft ejection seats is meant for the protection of fighter pilot (usually military) from serious spinal injury during an emergency evacuation. This Spinal Injury protector is a portable light-weight and ready to use add-on seat bottom assembly suitable to fit all ejection seats.
Why this Spinal Injuries Protector is developed?
We have designed a line of small bore hydraulic cylinders. The one shown has a .375 bore and a 2.500 stroke. The cylinders are made in the U. S. A. and are all Stainless Steel. The hoses and fittings are off the shelf #3 A & N JIC. They use standard hydraulic fluid.
We propose the new damper concept VZN –Variable Zeta after Necessities, Zeta being the relative damping changing stepwise according piston position, correlated thus with the vehicle load state and the road unevenness amplitude.
VZN main differences comparative to standard dampers are:
It has no valves in piston
Valve body has only filling valve on rebound,
Is a fact that Earth is entering in a space where the asteroid activity is increasing, and some meteorites that were not detected at the time have passed very close to Earth (luckily), or in the worst case hit the planet causing more than 1000 deaths (Russia incident).
Water seems like it’s all around us, right? But the truth is, it’s not available everywhere. Water is the one essential of every community and every single life depends on it. That’s why when typical well pumps cannot perform, The Well Dr. succeeds. Using a proprietary algorithm developed by Luke Miller, The FPGA Expert,
LIGHTER AND BETTER BUCKET
The payload capacity of a wheel loader is directly related to the weight and volume of its bucket, by reducing the weight of bucket,the payload capacity is increased and can handle more cargo, using same amount of fuel.
A lighter and better bucket has been designed, which is eco-friendly,
Concept:
The United States of America has been using energy for the betterment of the lives of the people since the very founding of this nation. One of the ways that we have been generating the energy we all need is through nuclear power plants.
It is possible to make plastically deformable metal rich ceramics with melting temperatures over 2,500C by sintering them under high pressure exceeding 1 GPa up to 2 GPa and high temperature over 2,000C. These deformable ceramics are useful for using as turbine blades for gas turbine engines, mainly for jet engines.
TITLE : CHARGE YOUR MOBILE PHONES ON THE MOVE
CHALLENGE AREA : ENERGY
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION :
In this ever dynamic world filled with fancy gadgets and e-savvy people, the current scenario sees a huge spending capacity of people in India. Due to huge geographical area of our country,

Problem and Product Summary
The Center for Disease Control and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a list of guidelines for health care facilities to decrease their rates of inpatient acquired infections. Medical facilities are dealing with decreased re-imbursements from CMS and private insurers, if an inpatient acquires a possible preventable event.
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