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Recreational vessels (RVs) are often serviced in boat yards. It is very common to see boat yards with a very limited infrastructure to support an efficient workflow. In fact, some of the boat yards have challenging conditions, sometimes unsafe for workers and customers.
The Invention is about the control of access to doorless area where electromechanical barriers are used to keep the area apart. The Innovation is designed as a single-spiral barrier, the function of which is to let persons through into a protected area.
My idea is very simple.
All the laser printers or copiers use a laser beam and poligonal motor to write in the opc drum.
This new system does not use poligonal motor, it uses the laser beam and MEMS (in horizontal scanning) to write in the opc drum.
Please see the diagram attached.
Oil Spill Containment Device
Safety and Security
Technical Abstract
Brief Description of Technology:
An underwater robot places a rubber bladder reinforced with nylon netting into the broken pipe and air is pumped in from a surface vessel, inflating the bladder and sealing off the oil flow.
Eco Drive Coach is a smart teaching tool dedicated to improve your driving. This system is based on a MEMS accelerometer which senses the way you are driving
(nervously, softly, ...). The Eco Drive Coach is fully autonomous with absolutely no connection to the vehicle; smart calibration and data-acquisition processes allow it to get accurate data.
A blood clot can happen so fast somewhere in our bodies, and it can cause death of the whole human being or part of his body. The researches carried out is to minimize the time of rescue as possible, because the doctors, in many cases, have only few hours to save the patient,
Without talking about green house gas, GHG, and its environmental effects, all people around the world know that perfectly. The natural resource of oxygen is unfortunately disappearing so fast from our world in order to feed our industrial activities.
Most countries face a very severe water supply problem, which has already become a food supply problem (which could unfortunately lead to wars and conflicts).
We acquired the original application patent from Nestlé R&D and further patented the first auto degradable liquid mulch for the agriculture in areas suffering from water scarcity.
Seabreath is a device for producing energy from wave motion that improves the performance of the OWC (Oscillating Water Column).
This floating system can also be adapted to fixed installations like jetties or attached to other floating structures. Its particularity than other wave energy converters, that take advantage of the oscillating water column,
A high volume, high power, family and taxi-cab transporter.
Strong aluminum construction, integrated eletric propulsion, ecological range extender (hydrogen or liquid methanole fuel cells, or simply gas/diesel generator set).
A true future proposition for family cars, yielding full capacity for 9 passengers: Father, Mother, three children, and all four grand parents !!!!!!!!!!.
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