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Level-3 Integrated On-board Electric Vehicle Battery Charger
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background:Two major types of plug-in electric vehicle battery chargers are: on-board chargers and off-board chargers. Onboard chargers provide flexibility of charging batteries using single-phase power outlets; however, they contribute to additional weight, volume and cost of the car. Due to their charging power limitations and slow charging...
Categories: Engineering, Power Electronics
Keyword(s): Electric vehicle, Charger, EV, Powertrain, integration charger,interleaved boost converter, off-board charger, onboard charger, permanent magnet synchronous machine, power factor correction
Docket: PS-2014-127
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Highly Stretchable Robust Superabsorbent Gels
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015BackgroundPolymer hydrogels are three dimensional networks of polymer chains that swell in aqueous solutions. These materials are used in applications ranging from consumer products to tissue engineering. Synthetic hydrogels can be engineered to exhibit swelling ratio, defined as the mass ration of swollen gel to dry network, on the...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-119
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Distributed Row-Column Decoding For A One-Sided Mesh Switch
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background: One-sided crossbar fabric is well-suited to interconnecting active ports such as line cards in network routers and peripheral devices in computer systems where ports serve both as inputs and outputs. Its simple topology and straightforward routing makes it more attractive for network-on-chip and system-on-chip designs compared to...
Categories: Microelectronics, Power Electronics, Devices
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-102
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Personal Robotic Air-conditioning Device
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015BackgroundHeating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems have made tremendous gains in full-load efficiency over decades of research. However, the efficiencies of many full-load HVAC systems are approaching a maximum where it will not be cost effective to improve these systems any further. In many cases, in order to reduce energy...
Categories: Clean Tech, Chemical, Devices, Industrial Processing, Robotics
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-101
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Distributed Row-Column Decoding For A Mesh Switch
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background: Crossbar switches are employed in network routers, multiprocessor interconnections and programmable logic chips. While their highly regular structure makes them attractive for VLSI and optical implementations, the existing routing models for crossbar switches make them impractical for such applications. Switch using (n x r) cross-...
Categories: Power Electronics, Devices, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-100
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Transient Liquid Phase Sintering Paste
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015BackgroundElectronic systems are increasingly used in harsh environments under elevated thermal conditions. This includes applications with high absolute temperatures as well as those with very large temperature swings. Some examples of these types of applications include deep well drilling, military and aerospace, or automotive products...
Categories: Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Industrial Processing, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Materials
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-096
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Nanopore Battery
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background:For advances in electrical energy storage, nanostructuring of electrode materials using nanowire or nanotube configurations holds promise for higher available energy at any given power density, due to larger available surface area and shorter ion transport time of the electrode materials; and improved mechanical flexibility and...
Categories: Clean Tech, Power Electronics, Chemical, Materials
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-081
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One-sided Binary Tree-Based Crossbar Switch Fabrics
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background: One-sided crossbar fabric is well-suited to interconnecting active ports such as line cards in network routers and peripheral devices in computer systems where ports serve both as inputs and outputs. Its simple topology and straightforward routing makes it more attractive for network-on-chip and system-on-chip designs compared to...
Categories: Engineering, Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Devices
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-057
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Weighted OFDM Modulation Technology for Radar Parameter Estimation
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background:Scarcity of the radio frequency spectrum is a growing problem. Spectrum congestion limits the operational capabilities of competing wireless systems due to mutual interference. Traditionally, fixed spectrum allocation has been used to prevent interference between radar and communications systems that operate in close ranges...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-038
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Neuroparticle with a Spin-Torque Device
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2015Background:The brain is a complex network of interconnected circuits that exchange signals in the form of action potentials. These action potentials hold the key to understanding how the brain processes information and generates complex thought. Currently, the most advanced method for performing highly localized measurements of neuronal...
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: PS-2014-024