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Chipper Shredder Description
Ref: Low Speed High Torque Chipper Shredder Machine, Patent 7070132 assigned to Max P. Gassman. Patent was originally assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.; WebSites:
The following is a proposal for a product that would fit well in the product line of a lawn and garden equipment manufacturing company.
I have designed a stretcher to lift the patient to an operation theater table or from an operating table to recovery side. Most critical, all types of surgical patients feel and suffer in difficult to handle situations. So keeping this in mind I have designed this type of stretcher to benefit patients.
I have a patent on a "bar soap with a cavity design"--this provides a most convenient location for the insertion of used bar soap segments and also provides additional gripping surfaces for bar soaps to prevent accidental dropping during use--especially during showering thereby decreasing the probability of falling in the shower--liquid soap may be inserted in the cavity providing
Our product is a portable device, with two discrete electrodes that measure the patient’s electroencephalogram continuously. The device alerts both the patient and a care giver with minutes in advance if a seizure is about to occur and the location of the patient.
The methodology is ready and tested with EEG signals from patients with epilepsy.
A Novel High Efficiency Variable Inlet Area Propulsor
The aircraft industry continues to search for a single aircraft capable of both high-speed cruise and efficient take-off and landing. Yet nearly all propulsion systems with nacelle inlets that fly today operate in a compromised state with at least one important flight condition existing in a sub-optimal state.
IoBike is a lighting solution that connects bicycles to the IoT. We bring safety and interactivity to cyclists and a geomarketing possibility to advertisers.
Our technology implements in a bicycle-embedded hardware a wheel display using the Persistance of Vision concept, and creates brake-lights and headlights projected from the wheel.
Reduction of drag and boosting of lift to drag ratio is of paramount importance to maximize flight efficiency. Turbulence has a major role in producing drag. In order to reduce turbulence and thereby reduce drag and increase lift to drag ratio I have successfully developed a new concept after spending several years of research.
Reduction of size and weight and increasing efficiency is of paramount importance to maximize transmission efficiency. In order to make continuous speed ratios and thereby increase efficiency, I have successfully developed a new concept Continuously Variable Transmission after spending several years to research.
Advantages are Compact size, Very low frictional losses,
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