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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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High-Flow Lift Pump
Eric Foy
Central Point, OR
Apump is often needed, particularly in the act of firefighting, to raise water to fill a...
Articles: Medical
(Winner of an HP Workstation)
IDEA Enhanced Pulse Oximetry
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Digital Window Distributed Imaging Camera
Ellen Cargill, Peter Jones, and Dennis Purcell
Boston, MA
Scallop Imaging’s seven-megapixel...
Articles: Transportation
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Regenerative Braking Bike Front Wheel
David Swain, Frank Maurer, Jason Moore, and Albert Shih
Ann Arbor, MI
With the push of a button and without...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2010 Create the Future Design Contest Meet the Judges
COMSOL, PTC, and Tech Briefs Media Group thank the following judges for their participation.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Many scientific, technical and engineering applications in finance, medical imaging, modeling, simulation, and...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Automated industrial control systems are an integral part of today’s manufacturing facilities. As these systems’ capabilities advance, the engineer shifts from someone who oversees...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
In the design process, after the first prototype returns from fabrication, engineers often use traditional test equipment to make low-level measurements such as digital rise times, voltage thresholds,...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The desire to consolidate datacenter I/O has existed for several decades. It has been driven by I/O hardware providers who didn’t want to develop multiple versions of the same I/O card for different...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Portable Handheld Optical Window Inspection Device
The Portable Handheld Optical Window Inspection Device (PHOWID) is a measurement system for imaging small defects (scratches, pits, micrometeor impacts, and the like) in the field. Designed primarily for window inspection, PHOWID attaches to a smooth surface with suction cups, and raster scans a...
Briefs: Information Technology
Predicting Long-Range Traversability From Short-Range Stereo-Derived Geometry
Based only on its appearance in imagery, this program uses close-range 3D terrain analysis to produce training data sufficient to estimate the traversability of terrain beyond 3D sensing range. This approach is called learning from stereo (LFS). In effect, the software...
Briefs: Information Technology
Salience Assignment for Multiple-Instance Data and Its Application to Crop Yield Prediction
An algorithm was developed to generate crop yield predictions from orbital remote sensing observations, by analyzing thousands of pixels per county and the associated historical crop yield data for those counties. The algorithm determines which pixels...
Briefs: Information Technology
Browser-Based Application for Telemetry Monitoring of Robotic Assets
AEGSE Virtuoso Charting is an application that enables animated, real-time charting of telemetry streams of data from a rover. These automatically scaled charts are completely interactive, and allow users to choose the variables that they want to monitor. The charts can process...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Speech Acquisition and Automatic Speech Recognition for Integrated Spacesuit Audio Systems
A voice-command human-machine interface system has been developed for spacesuit extravehicular activity (EVA) missions. A multichannel acoustic signal processing method has been created for distant speech acquisition in noisy and reverberant environments....
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Magnetic field response sensors are a class of sensors that are powered via oscillating magnetic fields, and when electrically active, respond...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Miniature Low-Noise G-Band I-Q Receiver
Weather forecasting, hurricane tracking, and atmospheric science applications depend on humidity sounding of atmosphere. Current instruments provide these measurements from ground-based, airborne, and low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites by measuring radiometric temperature on the flanks of the 183-GHz water...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Differential Resonant Ring YIG Tuned Oscillator
A differential SiGe oscillator circuit uses a resonant ring-oscillator topology in order to electronically tune the oscillator over multi-octave bandwidths. The oscillator’s tuning is extremely linear, because the oscillator’s frequency depends on the magnetic tuning of a YIG sphere, whose...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
Allegro MicroSystems (Worcester, MA) offers constant current LED drivers to address requirements of internal and external illumination applications within the automotive market. Allegro’s...
Products: Transportation
The infrared DRAGON SFH 4236 from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (Sunnyvale, CA) is designed for applications that require narrow radiation characteristics from limited board space, namely automotive applications such as...
Products: Lighting
Papailias Incorporated (Northvale, NJ) has introduced a high intensity light engine to replace halogen technology. The Series HI-LED lamp is not a standard LED bulb, but a custom-designed lamp that features a...
Briefs: Energy
Société de Conseil et de Prospective Scientifique (SCPS), located in Rosny-sous-Bois, France, developed a technology that allows the nickel-zinc battery system to work as close as possible to its...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
RECOM Power Inc. (Brooklyn, NY) has developed a series of constant current LED drivers in the power ranges of 12, 20, and 60 Watts. The new series feature universal AC inputs, power factor correction, and UL-8750...
Products: Energy
The high-brightness black top surface tri-color PLCC-6 family of SMT LEDs from Avago Technologies (San Jose, CA) has a separate heat path for each LED dice, enabling the LED to be driven at higher current. The...
Products: Energy
Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) introduced its AAT1409/7/5 family of multi-string LED backlight drivers with integrated boost converters and precision current sinks that can support up to 88...
Products: Energy
The KP Series of illuminated miniature pushbutton switches from NKK Switches (Scottsdale, AZ) provide design engineers options that complete front panels needing an innovative look and feel. The devices are...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
A new standard DC filter called the FMER SOL from Schurter (Santa Rosa, CA) is designed for use on the DC side of the inverter in photovoltaic systems, and ensures EMC compliance and overall reliability of the...
Products: Energy
ROHM Semiconductor (San Diego, CA) introduces the Model BD8381EFV-M high-brightness LED driver for automotive forward illumination applications. With this flexible IC, designers can specify the same driver...
Articles: Motion Control
In dozens of industries and in millions of applications around the world, dangerous chemicals are transferred from their original shipping containers...
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