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Power tools are a useful consumer product line, used widely throughout the world. One of the most common problems when using them, is how to keep the power cord connected securely to the tool.
The Snap and Lock is a power tool accessory which will keep the electrical cord attached.
This idea basically solve the transportation problem in todays era and traffic jam problems and main benifit of this wheel concept is to move in each and every direction on surface.in today's era simple conventional wheels are used which do not have 3 DOF.this concept can be applied in all vehicle.
The Altus manufacturing method utilizes a patented spool movement system (US #7132027) to braid and consolidate composite grid poles (see www.isotruss.com). While multiple grid pole designs are possible, they are all stronger than any conventional pole currently in the market such as wood, concrete, steel, composite, or other advanced materials.
The FireStorm Plasma iPlug is a new entry in the formerly mundane area of Spark Plugs. All Spark Plugs produce "sparks" to ignite the Air Fuel Mixture in the combustion Chambers. FireStorm is different, it produces "PLASMA". By doing that, it eliminates the Catalytic Converter and EGR Systems and can still pass future emission requirements in California.
ICE(internal combustion engine)are very highly developed machines. Today any improvement in the efficiency is needed to extend the supply of limited resources.
Modern ICE engineers have developed every part but one the valve that connects the atmosphere to the combustion chamber.
At the present time the simple poppet valve used in modern ICE has never been challenged seriously.
Modular Spacecraft Concept:Valkerie
Abstract:
Valkerie is an attempt to create a multi-platform, multi-mission reusable spacecraft that uses gravimetric conditions in space to provide long-range capabilities. It is unique in that its main power source is a series of sequenced mechanical generators which use gravity as a force input and makes the craft in effect self propelling.
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 for assay tests.
Previous inspection was conducted manually utilizing microscopes.
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.
The losses experienced with automatic transmissions come mainly from the hydraulic drive unit and not the gearbox.
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 (), SolidWorks 3D Design Software, Wolfram Research's Mathematica,
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