135 results about "Extremely light" patented technology

A novel, high-efficiency, extremely light-weight, inflatable refractive solar concentrator for space power is described. It consists of a flexible Fresnel lens, flexible sides, and a back surface, together enclosing a volume of space which can be filled with low pressure gas to deploy the concentrator on orbit. The back surface supports the energy receiver/converter located in the focal region of the Fresnel lens. The back surface can also serve as the waste heat radiator. Prior to deployment, the deflated flexible lens and sides are folded against the back surface to form a flat, low-volume package for efficient launch into space. The inflatable concentrator can be configured to provide either a line focus or a point focus of sunlight. The new inflatable concentrator approach will provide significant advantages over the prior art in two different space power areas: photovoltaic concentrator arrays and high-temperature solar thermal conversion systems. Photovoltaic concentrator arrays using the new inflatable lens will be much lighter than prior space concentrator arrays. In addition, for photovoltaic concentrator arrays, the new inflatable lens will eliminate the need for a fragile glass superstrate to support the lens, substantially improving robustness of the lens. Solar thermal concentrator arrays using the new inflatable lens will be much lighter than prior art space concentrators which used parabolic mirrors. In addition, for solar thermal applications in space, the new inflatable lens will eliminate the need for high surface accuracy, which has been a significant problem for prior art concentrators.

The invention relates to a method for producing ceramic hollow fibers from nanoscale particles and to hollow fibers produced in such a manner. The inventive method is characterized in that the ceramic material has a solids content of >25% by volume, preferably >30% by volume and is processed by means of extrusion and spinning. The hollow fiber is sintered according to conventional sintering methods. A hollow fiber produced in this manner is used for metal, polymer and ceramic matrix reinforcements, for artificial organs, for microsystems technology components, for fiber optical waveguides, for ceramic membranes, for solid electrolyte in fuel cells (SOFC), for tissue engineering and for producing extremely light ceramic parts, such as heat shields or brake systems, that are subjected to temperature stresses. The inventive ceramic batch can also be processed by means of silk screening whereby resulting in the production of filigree structures over the ceramic silk screening.

A spotlight system is adaptable for use with preferably one or more power sources so as to provide lighting where needed. The spotlight system preferably includes a spotlight assembly comprising a lamp housing which includes at least one bulb, a switch, and an enclosure. The spotlight system may be operated utilizing DC power with or without a rechargeable battery. The rechargeable battery may be recharged utilizing DC power or AC power while still connected to the lamp housing. When the lamp housing is operated without a battery, then the lamp housing is extremely light for hand held operation with a preferably high power beam.

We formulate the network-wide traffic measurement/analysis problem as a series of set-cardinality-determination (SCD) problems. By leveraging recent advances in probabilistic distinct sample counting techniques, the set-cardinalities, and thus, the network-wide traffic measurements of interest can be computed in a distributed manner via the exchange of extremely light-weight traffic digests (TD's) amongst the network nodes, i.e. the routers. A TD for N packets only requires O(loglog N) bits of memory storage. The computation of such O(loglog N)-sized TD is also amenable for efficient hardware implementation at wire-speed of 10 Gbps and beyond. Given the small size of the TD's, it is possible to distribute nodal TD's to all routers within a domain by piggybacking them as opaque data objects inside existing control messages, such as OSPF link-state packets (LSPs) or I-BGP control messages. Once the required TD's are received, a router can estimate the traffic measurements of interest for each of its local link by solving a series of set-cardinality-determination problems. The traffic measurements of interest are typically in form of per-link, per-traffic-aggregate packet counts (or flow counts) where an aggregate is defined by the group of packets sharing the same originating and/or destination nodes (or links) and/or some intermediate nodes (or links). The local measurement results are then distributed within the domain so that each router can construct a network-wide view of routes/flow patterns of different traffic commodities where a commodity is defined as a group of packets sharing the same origination and/or termination nodes or links. After the initial network-wide traffic measurements are received, each router can further reduce the associated measurement/estimation errors by locally conducting a minimum square error (MSE) optimization based on network-wide commodity-flow conservation constraints.

A volumetric displacement device, especially good for preserving and dispensing carbonated beverages has been constructed that is extremely light, small, safe, attractive, easy to use, energy efficient and inexpensive. It can use battery power, has an ovaloid shape, can be constructed of thin flexible plastics, and operates in various positions that eliminate the need for a pickup tube. A consistent problem with soda savers, in that they destroy carbonated beverages by delivering them in a violent manner, has been solved by utilizing a low pressure delivery mode. The can operate in a conventional refrigerator.

A small, lightweight, high intensity illumination assembly for use in dental and medical applications. The illumination assembly includes attachment means for removable attachment to headgear such as eyeglasses, face shields, or headbands, and lenses, loupes, and binoculars associated with such headgear. The illumination assembly is able to achieve extremely light weight by using only a single optical element therein, e.g., an aspheric condensing lens, binary optical element, or holographic optical means, and by piping illumination to the optical element from a remote light source by use of a flexible light guide, e.g., a fiberoptic bundle.

A control apparatus, a control method, and an engine control unit are provided for controlling an output of a controlled object which has a relatively large response delay and/or dead time to rapidly and accurately converge to a target value. When the output of the controlled object is chosen to be that of an air/fuel ratio sensor in an internal combustion engine, the output of the air/fuel ratio sensor can be controlled to rapidly and accurately converge to a target value even in an extremely light load operation mode. The control apparatus comprises an ADSM controller for calculating a target air/fuel ratio in accordance with a predicted value of an output deviation based on a AL modulation algorithm, and a PRISM controller for calculating the target air/fuel ratio in accordance with the predicted value based on a sliding mode control algorithm. The control apparatus selects one of the target air/fuel ratios calculated by the two controllers to control the air/fuel ratio using the selected one.

The invention relates to a unfolding type cable-rod-film combined emergency bridge, which consists of a plurality of bridge units; each bridge unit consists of a cable-rod-film composite beam, a bridge faceplate and supports; the cable-rod-film composite beam is mounted in the groove of the supports; and the bridge faceplate is mounted on the cable-rod-film composite beam; the cable-rod-film composite beam consists of a top boom, a bottom boom, a low pressure inflated air bag and a stay cable; the top and the bottom boom are disposed on the upper and lower side of the beam; the low pressure inflated air bag is disposed in the middle of the beam; the stay cables are disposed on both sides of the beam; the bag is disposed on the bottom boom; the top boom is disposed on the bag; cross section of the top and the bottom boom and the low pressure inflated air bag is superposed with the vertical symmetrical axis; the cables are winded individually along both sides of the rod and passed through the node ring disposed on the rod side, and fixed by tightening the cables on both sides to connect the cable, the rod and the low pressure inflated air bag into one integral body. The novel emergency bridge achieves the advantages of extremely light weight, convenience for storing and carrying and rapid installation, and has high practical value and broad application prospect.

The invention discloses an extremely light and thin bulletproof composite material which has high-intensity and is transparent, and a manufacture method of the material. The extremely light and thin bulletproof composite material which has high-intensity and is transparent includes a single chip inorganic transparent parental material with a thickness from 0.4 to 25mm, 1 to 30 organic transparent layers and transparent tack coats. The transparent tack coats are arranged between the single chip inorganic transparent parental material and the organic transparent layers as well as between two neighboring organic transparent layers. The manufacture method of the extremely light and thin bulletproof composite material which has high-intensity and is transparent is that is that washing the parental material-delivering to a dustless control chamber-coating reagent-covering the organic transparent layers-squeezing air bladders-cutting off-solidifying-multilayer cascading-outputting. Compared with the existing transparent material with the same bulletproof grade, the invention is lighter, thinner and more transparent. Besides, the invention has a better surface-layer anti-shattering capacity and can better meet the needs of various fields on the transparent bulletproof material; more particularly, for the needs of the application fields like space flight, aviation, vehicle and ship, safety protection and special military armoring, etc., the invention has strict requirements on the weight and thickness of the transparent bulletproof material.

The invention provides an elevator monitoring device and a monitoring method, which, when a combined loading sensor and an image sensor judge whether an elevator car is occupied or unoccupied, can inhibit missing reports on an unmeasurable body such as an extremely light infant or a small animal, and reduce the load of image processing performed by the image sensor. An image of a photographing part is processed and thus a new passenger who enters the elevator car is detected, whether the new passenger is a specified light-weight passenger, i.e., an unmeasurable body, is judged according to a change of a loading value of the loading sensor when the new passenger takes the elevator, in the circumstance that the new passenger is judged to be an unmeasurable body, till the unmeasurable body exits from the elevator car, image tracking is performed to judge whether an unmeasurable body mixes into the elevator car, and in the circumstance that the unmeasurable body is judged to mix into the elevator car, the elevator car is judged to be ??occupied??.

A self-inflating beach toy that expands when a valve is opened and deflates when a second valve is opened is disclosed. The toy is filled with extremely light, compressible foam that rapidly expands when a valve is opened. Two one-way air valves are provided: an inflation valve and a deflation valve. These valves enable the rapid and reliable inflation and deflation of the toy. The toy is provided in a broad variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, including wading pools, floating mattresses, and flotation rings.

The invention discloses a microwave absorbing metamaterial, which comprises a metal plate, at least one honeycomb structure layer and at least one resistor structure layer, wherein the at least one honeycomb structure layer and the at least one resistor structure layer are alternately stacked on the metal plate; each honeycomb structure layer has a predetermined thickness; and each resistor structure layer has predetermined conductivity. According to the microwave absorbing metamaterial provided by the invention, each honeycomb structure layer in a direction from incoming waves to the metal plate has the predetermined thickness, each resistor structure layer has the same thickness and different conductivity, the microwave absorbing frequency of the microwave absorbing metamaterial is adjustable, a corresponding working frequency can be adjusted according to actual conditions, the microwave absorbing performance is good in a wide frequency range, and due to the honeycomb structure, the weight is extremely light.