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Tech Needs: Aerospace
M. N. Dastoor, Ph.D
Chief Technologist, Innovative Partnerships Program Office
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D. C.
The NASA Strategic Plan articulates a three-part Mission for the Agency: (1) Space...
Techs for License
Unique DNA Signature Identifies Organism’s Species
Unique genetic markers called oligonucleotides can provide swift identification of a known organism or rule out an organism from known genomes. This software technology provides a way to generate thousands of such markers and provides a searchable database of chromosomal sequences for over 100...
Techs for License
Finger Seals Replace Brush or Labyrinth Seals
Finger seals are non-contact fluid seals similar in purpose to labyrinth or brush seals in that they act as a barrier between two areas of the same or different pressures, but allow a rotating shaft to penetrate through them from one side to the other. Applications include sealing rotating parts in...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2007 NASA Tech Briefs "Create the Future" Design Contest
This year's sixth annual NASA Tech Briefs' "Create the Future" design contest, presented by SolidWorks Corp., recognized innovation in product design in six categories: Consumer Products, Safety & Security, Machinery & Equipment, Medical, Sustainable Technologies, and Transportation....
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
By Dr. Udo Ungeheuer Chairman of the Board of Management SCHOTT Mainz, Germany
Many people consider the printing press developed here in Mainz, Germany, near the headquarters of SCHOTT, the greatest invention of the last...
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Cargo Management System
Jeremy ConnellBlacksburg, VA
Standard truck beds lack the ability to secure loose items easily. The Cargo Management System design employs...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Litroenergy™, a New Light Source Material
Steve StarkMPK Co.Champlin, MN
A patent-pending light source material, Litroenergy™ contains self-luminous micro particles about...
Articles: Medical
(Winner of an HP Workstation)
3D Ultrasonic Neuronavigation System for Image-Guided Brain Surgery
Ajay Mahajan
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Murphysboro, IL
This...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
LED Cocoon Tent
Stephen Boynton
Orem, UT
Outdoor camping tents have used the zipper as the solution to opening and closing the tent since the zipper was...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Personnel Beacon/Locator for Mine Workers
Joseph HollmannSpectral BiopsyKansas City, MO
When trapped, miners are instructed to create noise by tapping on surrounding...
Articles: Transportation
Internally Radiating Impulse Structure (IRIS) Engine
Corban Tillemann-Dick Tendix LLC Denver, CO
The vast majority of internal combustion engines we use for...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
LEDTRICITY™
Ted BristowCreative ElectricKailua Kona, HI
LEDTRICITY™ uses a combination of various electrical principles, unique wiring circuits, and...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
ToughDisk® 3500 SATA Rugged Hard Disk Formation, Inc. Moorestown, NJ 856-234-5020 www.formation.com
Formation’s ToughDisk® 3500 SATA Rugged Hard Disk has been selected by...
Application Briefs: Software
Adept document management software Synergis Software Quakertown, PA 800-836-5440 www.synergis-adept.com
NASA Ames Research Center’s Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels (UPWT) in Mountain...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Belden Inc., a manufacturer of universal joints, has developed a miniaturized universal joint for a surgical tool developed by Tuebingen Scientific Medical GmbH for minimally invasive surgical...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Arcoma, one of the world’s leading providers of automatic x-ray equipment, faced the challenge of redesigning one its flagship products, the Arcoma mobile imaging table, because new...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
What good is a $100,000 ultra-precision inverted microscope if it can’t hold focus? That’s the problem facing researchers involved in an increasing number of genetic experiments.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Systems engineers face a number of challenges when configuring and programming a complex, heterogeneous multiprocessor system of the type often used in digital signal processing...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The task-specific nature of an embedded system application typically defines a narrow scope of performance requirements. But the range of options for achieving those requirements are broad —...
Products: Electronics & Computers
McObject® (Issaquah, WA) has released Perst™, its all-Java object-oriented, open source embedded database that is compatible with the Android mobile device platform. Perst stores data...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Sunstone Circuits (Mulino, OR) has released PCB123™ version 3.0, a complete circuit board design solution for the electronics design industry. PCB123 version 3.0's enhancements include real-time, bi-directional views of...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Pentek, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has released its Model 4207 high-performance VME/VXS board for digital signal processing and data-acquisition systems. The new board employs Freescale's MPC8641D Dual Core PowerPC AltiVec™...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, AZ) has announced two Baseline 8- bit Flash PIC® microcontrollers with non-volatile Flash Data Memory (FDM) in 8- and 14-pin packages. The microcontrollers...
Products: Electronics & Computers
STMicroelectronics (Mansfield, TX) has released the STM32 Family of 32- bit Flash microcontrollers based on ARM® Cortex™—M3 core. The STM32 is offered in the STM32F103 performance line, with 72...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Renesas Technology America, Inc. (San Jose, CA) has added two new application processors to the SH-Mobile series. The SH-MobileL3V2 offers additional video formats, high-resolution video capture,...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Network Appliance Board (ESC Booth 2110)
VIA Technologies, Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan) has released the VIA NAB 7500 network appliance board for network security or gateway applications, including Firewall, VPN, UTM, Anti-Virus, and Intrusion Prevention System products.
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The embedded computing industry is being inundated with changes to storage products driven by technological advancements, market forces and environmental concerns. The precipitous drop in solid-state flash drive (SSD)...
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