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Micro-Efficient Electro-Mechanical Multiplied-System Self-Sustaining Reactions: A summary.
The engagement with natural fields of force and their latent potentialities has been the focus of a subset of Breakthrough Propulsion Projects run by national space agencies for some years.
A system was devised to aid in the inspection of Micro Electrode assemblies utilized in clinical lab instruments to conduct impedance measurements on living cells in a 384 bottomless well casing with the said electrode layer bonded to the housing creating the closed cell real time data acquisition instrument
Stored Energy Electromagnetic Transmission
Aim: to replace a hydraulic torque converter with an electromagnetic device embodying an electrical energy storage system.
Primary Market: Existing trucks and buses with automatic gearboxes but conventional torque convertors.
MicroGen Systems, LLC is located at the Cornell Business & Technology Park in Ithaca, NY. MicroGen is developing a patent-pending MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) based Piezoelectric Vibrational Energy Harvester (mPZEH). The microfabrication development efforts are being completed at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (READ MORE
The Fuller wind turbine is awaiting USPTO patent issuance. It is an improvement of an early 20th Century Tesla turbine, substantially modified for use as a low speed, high torque wind turbine. By being vertically mounted atop a tubular tower,
The third generation modular Universal Flight Controller (UFC-3) was designed for the high end amateur high power rocketeer, primarily flights above 60,000' and for FAA Class III Rocketry.
Combined Moment, Damping, & Post-Tensioning Structural Steel Strap-Nets Reinforcing Methods provide total structural body-frame force-resistance and stress-reductions with a single, easily assembled & installable reinforcing component.
Developed primarily for buildings,
This invention addresses the $ 1 Billion USD annual storm water back up damage to finished basements and below grade construction that occurs during power outages when the AC pump cannot operate and DC battery back up pumps are unable to operate for long durations (usually 1-3 hours
The following entries received the highest overall scores from the panel of judges.
They are listed in alphabetical order by title.
"The 3rdArm"- A Wearable Robotic Limb for Augmenting Human Abilities
1,000x Better Data Compression and Real-Time Decoding of High-Resolution Maps
A Highly Efficient, Compact And Affordable Engine For Use With Diesel Or Natural Gas
A Novel Quantum Optoelectronic Image Stabilization Device
A Novel Technology for Use in Portable Medical Imagers
A Novel Variable-Inertia Flywheel Based Kinetic Energy Recovery and Storage System
Adjustable Size Duct Inlet System
Advanced 3D Volumetric Display
Anti-cavitation Water Pump Control
Asymmetric Dielectric Elastomer Composite Material
Augmented Reality in Manufacturing
Autonomous Slat-Cove Filler Device
Autonomous Soil Assessment System
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle - Seastick 1000
Battery Testing System Enabling Hobbyists to Create High Performance Lithium Battery Packs
CarTech Temper Tough-HD and Temper Tough-LN Alloys for Automotive Lightweighting
Castrol Reinvents the Oil Change with NEXCEL
Compact And Modular Atkinson Cycle Engine
Compact and Portable Magnetic Levitation Platform for Rapid, On-Site Disease Diagnostics
Continuous Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor
Desolenator - Water From Sunshine
Displacement Hull with Integrated Propulsion
Disrupting Severe Sepsis with an Innovative Filter
Dual Inverter Precise Power System
EasyPET - A Simplified High-performance PET System For Preclinical Trials
Epiphany!™ Digital Flow Optimizer – Conservation without Compromise
Fabrication of Mulitlayer Ferritin Arrays
Flash® Bainite - High Performance Armor 22
Flexible Circuitry for Damage Detection in Intelligent Sensor Systems
Fluid-Driven Emergency Lighting
FRUITFLY: Programmable Arduino/Galileo Autonomous Drone Printed Circuit Board
Gearing the Future - Reluctance Magnetic Gear
GlidePath – Intelligent Driver Assistance System at Traffic Signals
Global Environmental Monitoring network
Global Fittings Concepts – Configurable Push-To-Connect Fittings
Healable Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites
Highly Effective Personal Water Filters Using Nanotechnology for Worldwide Markets
Hyliion - Hybrid Technology for Semi-Trailers and the Trucking Industry
Infant Care System, A Therapeutic Wearable For Babies
Lunar Surface Manipulation System
Nanoparticle Biomarker Screening and Detection
New Wing Design Exponentially Increases Total Aircraft Efficiency
Non-contact Tire Pressure Reader
Novel Ultra Low-Cost Fully Automated Vein Detection System
PhantomCor: Dynamic, Multimodal, Modular Heart Phantom
Planetary Rotor Engine for Military Drones
Pocket Inverter (2kW/240Vac) For Sustainable Energy Applications
Polychromatic Surgical Laser Spares Healthy Tissues
PremieBreathe: A Low-cost Breathing Aid For Newborns In Low-resource Settings
Robotic Automated Erosion Coating System
Saving Lives with Aircraft-Ground Collision Prevention System
Sensing Magnetic Fields with an Innovative Optical Waveguide Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)
Shape Memory Alloy Based Safety Latch
Solar Reflective Pigment Dispersant
Super Ultra Low Emission Diesel Electric Hybrid Motorcycle
Super-Accurate Liquid-Level Sensing for Industrial Applications
Supercritical Air Mobility Pack (SCAMP)
The cerVIA System - Automated, Accurate and Accessible Cervical Cancer Screening
The Hydrosac Multiponic System
The NanoWell: A Passive Approach to Water Generation
The RI Hand, an Affordable, Multi-Functional 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand with a Sense of Feeling
Thermal-regeneration Air Purifier for Indoor Volatile Organic Compounds
Thermoplastic Composite Sandwich Panel Fabrication System
Virtuoso - Embedded Virtual Device Framework
X-Drive: Powered Wheel Chair Conversion
Xogo: Empowering People With Disabilities to Access Technology
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Hyliion - Hybrid Technology for Semi-Trailers and the Trucking Industry
Thomas Healy, RF Culbertson, AJ Emanuele, Morgan Culbertson, Wilson Sa, Pam Culbertson, Chad Saylor, Len Kulbacki, Eric Weber, Adam Faris, Kim Kasee, Roger Richter, Jared King, Phil Aufdencamp, and Tim Gehring, Hyliion, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CATEGORY WINNER
Flash® Bainite - High Performance Armor
Gary Cola, Flash Bainite, Washington, MI, USA
Honorable Mention – Aerospace & Defense Category
InSpec Snapshot Surface Gage
Erik Novak, Tim Horner, Joseph Moore, Brad Kimbrough, Mike Krell, Dmitriy Kiselev, and Shawn McDermed, 4D Technology, Tucson, AZ USA
New Wing Design Exponentially Increases Total Aircraft Efficiency
Albion (Al) Bowers and Peter Uden, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA USA
Supercritical Air Mobility Pack (SCAMP)
Harold Gier and Terence Gier, Niwot Technologies, LLC, Longmont, CO USA
Automated Software System for the Simulation of Arcing in Spacecraft On Board Power Electronics Equipment
Vasily Kozhevnikov, Vadim Karaban, Denis Kosov, Andrey Kozyrev, Alexander Batrakov, Natalia Semeniuk, and Larisa Zjulkova, HCEI, Tomsk, Russia
AUTOMOTIVE/TRANSPORTATION CATEGORY WINNER
Castrol Reinvents the Oil Change with NEXCEL
Krishan Arora, Mike Baker, Glenn Barber, Peter Brett, Ross Dewhurst, Melvyn Dover, John Gamston, Steven Goodier, Annie Leeson, Vincent Panel, Marc Payne, Ben Russell, Alessandra Scotese, Oliver Taylor, Julian Von Thungen-Reichenbach-Evans, Chris Wilks, John Ward-Zinski, and Roy Williamson, Castrol, Oxford, UK
Honorable Mention – Automotive/Transportation Category
InnoCat
Berker Hüsam and Elif Hüsam, Berker Nanoteknoloji Ltd., Odunpazari, Eskisehir, Turkey
GlidePath – Intelligent Driver Assistance System at Traffic Signals
Matthew Barth, Guoyuan Wu, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Peng Hao, Xuewei Qi, Osman Altan, and John Stark, University of California, Riverside, CA USA
The "Lighting Bug" Technology
Marcus Boykin, B-G Innovative Safety Systems, Lexington, TN USA
Ultralight Electric Bus
Bruce Emmons, Auokinetics Inc., Troy, MI, USA
CONSUMER PRODUCTS CATEGORY WINNER
mifold
Jon Sumroy, Carfoldio, Ltd., Ra'anana, Israel
Honorable Mention – Consumer Products Category
X-Drive: Powered Wheelchair Conversion
Alexander Shortt, Lukas Perez, and Badri Srinivasan, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Xogo: Empowering People with Disabilities to Access Technology
Noam Eisen, Dalton Banks, and Ray Abel, Bansen Labs, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Advanced 3D Volumetric Display
Diji jayakaran, Prajna-Vaishnavi-Shakti Research, Ernakulam, Kerala, India
Non-contact Tire Pressure Reader
Jingxi Zhang, SigLamp, Foster City, CA USA
ELECTRONICS CATEGORY WINNER
1,000x Better Data Compression and Real-Time Decoding of High-Resolution Maps
Shaun McWherter, Mark Skoog, and Jamie Willhite, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center;
Loyd Hook, University of Tulsa; Edwards, CA and Tulsa, OK, USA
Honorable Mention – Electronics Category
Global Environmental Monitoring Network
Radu Motisan, Magnasci SRL, Timisoara, Timis, Romania
Pocket Inverter (2kW/240Vac) for Sustainable Energy Applications
Benoit Blanchard St Jacques and Alain St-Jacques, TM4 Inc., Quebec, Canada
Asymmetric Dielectric Elastomer Composite Material
Sean Sullivan/LaRC Technology Gateway, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
Virtuoso - Embedded Virtual Device Framework
Jonathan Torkelson, Ashok Chaubey, Devender Maurya, Nick Vinyard, Devender Pal Sharma, Doug Torkelson, Manish Dubey, and Gaurav Singh, Embeddetech Inc., Tulsa, OK USA
MACHINERY/AUTOMATION/ROBOTICS CATEGORY WINNER
Shape Memory Alloy Based Safety Latch
Nicholas W. Pinto, Suresh Gopalakrishnan, Chandra S. Namuduri, Nancy L. Johnson, and Mark Vann, General Motors, Warren, MI USA
Honorable Mention – Machinery/Automation/Robotics Category
Augmented Reality in Manufacturing
Jake Stevens, Paul Ryznar, Bill Coe, Will Sommerville, Eve Ryznar, and John Morelli, OPS Solutions, Novi, MI USA
"The 3rdArm"- A Wearable Robotic Limb for Augmenting Human Abilities
Roozbeh Khodambashi and Gil Weinberg, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA USA
ARGEE Technology Turns I/O Devices into Field Logic Controllers (FLCs) for Flexible, Cost-effective Control
Paul Gilbertson, Turck Inc., Plymouth, MN USA
Gearing the Future - Reluctance Magnetic Gear
Alexandru Sorea, Allan Ivo Søegaard, Flemming Buus Bendixen, Henrick Rasmussen, and Peter Kjeldsteen, Sintex A/S, Hobro, Nordjylland, Denmark
MEDICAL CATEGORY WINNER
Continuous Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor
Sean Connell, Kyle Miller, Jay Pandit, and Jung-En Wu, Bold Diagnostics, Evanston, IL USA
Honorable Mention – Medical Category
Infant Care System, A Therapeutic Wearable for Babies
Diego Delia, Clinton Allen, and Omar Mohammed, ApnoSystems, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The cerVIA System - Automated, Accurate and Accessible Cervical Cancer Screening
Ritish Patnaik, Stephanie Yang, Olachi Oleru and Jahrane Dale, Luso Labs, Plano, TX USA
Disrupting Severe Sepsis with an Innovative Filter
Chris Jaynes and Jim Matson, Immunocept Medical Products, Denver, CO USA
Medella Health
Harry Gandhi, Huayi Gao, and Maarij Baig, Medella Health, Ontario, Canada
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES CATEGORY WINNER
Desolenator - Water from Sunshine
William Janssen, Desolenator, London, UK
Honorable Mention – Sustainable Technologies Category
Highly Effective Personal Water Filters Using Nanotechnology for Worldwide Markets
Corinne Clinch, Uriel Eisen, Kyle Henson, Jay Kuchta, and Annie Black, Rorus Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
Fluid-Driven Emergency Lighting
Yie-Zu Hu, Ming-Shan Jeng, Chih-Wei Yen, Chih-Yu Hsu, James Chen, Kuo-Hsiang Chien, Tzeng-Wuu Wey, Jia-Shyong Jan, Wen-Tien Tsai, Ke-Fang Hsu, Jung-Huang Liao, Industrial Tech. Research Institute, Chutung, Hsinchu, Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan
UMotor - Over-Expanded Engine
Jorge Martins, Tiago Costa, Helio Silva, and Guilherme Capela, Universidade do Minho, Guimaraes, Braga, Portugal
The SunSaluter
Eden Full Goh, Phil Hannam, Rachel Han, Victor Liu, Victoria Alleyne, Anuradha Dhavala, Serena Xu, Andie Goh, Sambit Sasmal, Santosh Ku. Jha, and Promise Daniel Chidothe, SunSaluter, New York, NY, USA
TOP TEN MOST POPULAR ENTRIES
IoBike
Marcelo Abdala Daher, Rafael Mosna Conrado de Vitor, and Giuliano de Vitor, IoBike, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Slosh Reduction Using Linear Actuator in Liquid Propulsion System
Dinesh Kumar G., Rejish Lal Johnson, S. Parthiban, S. Manoj, E.M Adhavan, T. Chandini, Y.S.S. Akshith, A. Rajalingam, A.J. Paulson, Voltaire Prashanth, M. Kalaivani R., Hindustan University, Chennai, India
The cerVIA System - Automated, Accurate and Accessible Cervical Cancer Screening
Ritish Patnaik, Stephanie Yang, Olachi Oleru and Jahrane Dale, Luso Labs, Plano, TX USA
Solution for Airplane Crashes
Manoj Sharma, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand , India
The Robotic-SixthFinger: An EMG Controlled Supernumerary Robotic Finger for Grasp Compensation in Chronic Stroke Patients
Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo, Giovanni Spagnoletti and Gionata Salvietti, Siena Robotics and Systems Lab, Siena, Toscana, Italy
Remote Control Switch Board
Astha Arora and Ankit Dalal, Dronacharya College Of Engineering, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Solar Charged Laboratory Bench Power Supply
Williams A. Ayara, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, Nigeria
Hyper4 High Efficiency Engine
Bernie Bon, Jorge Martins, Francisco Brito, and Tiago Costa, MNC Engineering LLC, Whittier, CA USA
Smart Split Shoes
Sandeep Sagar Gummalla, CYIENT Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Black Box for Car Accident
Alpana Gupta and Anupam Lata, Dronacharya College, New Delhi, Delhi, India
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