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20080211402 | FLAT PANEL OLED DEVICE HAVING DEFORMABLE SUBSTRATE - A flat panel OLED device including a transparent deformable substrate having first and second sides and defining a predetermined illumination region and a non-illumination region; a moisture-sensitive OLED disposed over the first side of the transparent substrate within the illumination region and means for applying electrical signals to the OLED which causes the OLED to produce light and heat; a protective layer disposed over the OLED; a flexible encapsulating foil disposed over the protective layer, but not attached thereto; and a rigid chassis structure operatively associated with the transparent deformable substrate for dissipating the heat and providing rigidity to the transparent deformable substrate. | 09-04-2008 |
20080218552 | PRINTING SYSTEM PARTICLE REMOVAL DEVICE AND METHOD - A printing system includes a source of liquid including a liquid outlet. The source of liquid includes a liquid with particles. A liquid vibrating mechanism is operably associated with the source of liquid. A controller is operably associated with the liquid vibrating mechanism. The controller is configured to control a desired direction of movement of the particles of the liquid by causing the liquid vibrating mechanism to vibrate the liquid with a non-symmetric energy such that movement of the particles is biased in the desired direction. | 09-11-2008 |
20100328619 | COOLING CELL FOR LIGHT MODULATOR - A cooling cell for drawing heat from a light modulator has an enclosure for conducting a fluid coolant. The enclosure has a fluid coolant inlet disposed to receive fluid coolant under pressure and a fluid conduit to provide fluid communication from the fluid coolant inlet to a nozzle. A well cavity surrounds the nozzle and has a number of fins that extend radially upward from a bottom of the well cavity and outward from the well cavity along a shallow cavity that is peripheral to the well cavity and is shallower than the well cavity. The well cavity is formed within a protruding element that protrudes outward from a portion of an external surface of the enclosure. The protruding element provides a component mounting surface that lies behind the bottom of the well cavity. There is at least one fluid coolant discharge outlet for discharging fluid coolant from the enclosure. | 12-30-2010 |
20110267550 | OFF-STATE LIGHT BAFFLE FOR DIGITAL PROJECTION - A light modulation assembly for a digital projection apparatus comprising: a solid-state light source that provides an illumination beam; a spatial light modulator having a plurality of tiltable micro-mirrors, each micro-mirror being actuable to tilt with respect to a tilt axis between a first tilt position that provides on-state light and a second tilt position that provides off state light, and wherein the micro-mirrors deflect the illumination beam along an arced path defining a deflection plane as they are tilted between the first tilt position and the second tilt position; and a light baffle disposed alongside the optical axis and in the path of the off state light from the micro-mirrors, the light baffle having a light-trapping surface adapted to absorb the off-state light from the micro-mirrors on the spatial light modulator, the light-trapping surface having a plurality of protruding fins that extend outward from the light-trapping surface at an oblique angle. | 11-03-2011 |
20110288824 | DESIGNING LENSES USING STRESS BIREFRINGENCE PERFORMANCE CRITERION - A method for designing an imaging lens having reduced susceptibility to thermally-induced stress birefringence, the imaging lens having first and second groups of lens elements located either side of an aperture stop, the method comprising: defining a set of lens design attributes; defining a set of lens performance criteria including a thermally-induced stress birefringence performance criterion; defining a first set of candidate glasses having a negligible susceptibility to thermal stress birefringence and a second set of candidate glasses having at most a moderate susceptibility to thermal stress birefringence; selecting glasses for lens elements that are located adjacent to the aperture stop from the first set of candidate glasses; selecting glasses for the remaining lens elements from the first or second sets of candidate glasses; and using a computer processor to determine a lens design for the imaging lens. | 11-24-2011 |
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20110015801 | Systems and Methods for Managing a Smart Grid Network - A system and method for operating a distributed power generation system comprising one or more Local Production Units (LPPUs) is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving and storing data relating to the operating performance of a plurality of LPPUs, receiving and storing data relating to the local power consumption for the plurality of LPPUs, determining the available aggregate quantity of excess power generation capacity for the plurality of LPPUs based upon the operating performance data and the power consumption data, communicating to at least one power purchasing entity an offer to sell at least part of the available aggregate quantity of excess power generation capacity, receiving from at least one power purchasing entity an order to purchase, and communicating with the plurality of LPPUs to provide each LPPU with instructions regarding the quantity of power to be produced. The system includes means for performing each of these steps. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016055 | Systems and Methods for Managing Clean Energy Production and Credits - A system and method for energy efficient power production of local power production units is provided. The system includes a control server and a series of local power production interfaces that are coupled to local power production units. The control server is configured to control the power production of a plurality of local power production units based on emissions data of each of the local power production units. The control server tracks environmental, gas and particulate emissions from local power production units. The control server instructs local power production units to produce power based on emission characteristics. The control server further tracks the establishment of emission credits, and offers such credits for sale or exchange. In embodiments, local power production units include one or more of fuel cells, microturbines, solar electrical generating devices and wind based electrical generating devices. | 01-20-2011 |
20120265867 | Dynamic Asset Marshalling Within an Incident communications Network - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for establishing incident communications networks. In an embodiment, the system includes an incident controller, a communications resource database that stores communications resources information and a marshalling rules module that stores a set of marshalling rules. A marshalling rule identifies how to select the communications resources to be marshaled into the incident communications network based on an incident trigger. Upon receipt of an incident trigger, the incident controller is configured to establish the incident communications network by obtaining a marshalling rule based on the incident trigger. The incident controller marshals communications resources based on the marshalling rule and the communications resources determined to be available. A wide variety of information sources can be used to determine an incident trigger. Information sources can either provide an incident trigger (e.g., a hurricane warning) or provide data to be analyzed to determine an incident trigger. | 10-18-2012 |
20130198517 | Enabling Ad Hoc Trusted Connections Among Enclaved Communication Communities - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for establishing an electronic communications connection between secure communities. A secure community includes a collection of communication resources having an administrator that maintains control over the secure community. In an embodiment, a system for establishing an electronic communications connection between two or more secure communities includes a community gateway controller, an identification module, a secure community database configured to store secure community information, and an encryption compatibility module configured to determine a media transmission encryption scheme for a connection between a host secure community and a second secure community. Upon receipt of a request to establish the connection between secure communities, the community gateway controller determines whether to grant the request based on information stored in the secure community database and assigns a media transmission encryption scheme for the connection based on the determination made by the encryption compatibility module. | 08-01-2013 |
20130331139 | System and Method for Establishing an Incident Communications Network - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for establishing incident communications networks. In an embodiment, the system includes an incident controller, a communications resource database that stores communications resources information and a marshalling rules module that stores a set of marshalling rules. A marshalling rule identifies how to select the communications resources to be marshaled into the incident communications network based on an incident trigger. Upon receipt of an incident trigger, the incident controller is configured to establish the incident communications network by obtaining a marshalling rule based on the incident trigger. The incident controller marshals communications resources based on the marshalling rule and the communications resources determined to be available. Information sources can either provide an incident trigger (e.g., a hurricane warning) or provide data to be analyzed to determine an incident trigger. In an embodiment, an incident communications network includes one or more mobile interoperability workstation. | 12-12-2013 |
20150063202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC WIRELESS AERIAL MESH NETWORK - Embodiments include a dynamic wireless aerial mesh network having aerial nodes that provides real-time persistent wide area communications service to provide communications in response to an incident. Typically, the area services is a wide area that is physically inaccessible via ground transportation. In addition, embodiments include the formation of a decentralized mesh supernetwork comprising two or more dynamic wireless aerial mesh networks where each dynamic wireless aerial mesh network is owned by a different agency (e.g., a secure community). A member of a first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network may send a request to a member of a second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network for the first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to join the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to form a mesh supernetwork, and receive an acceptance from the member of the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network. | 03-05-2015 |