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20120001061 | ION IMPLANTED BEAM DUMP - An optical device is provided and includes a beam splitter disposed to direct a first portion of a light beam propagating along a first light path along a second light path transverse to the first light path and to permit a second portion of the light beam to propagate along a third light path oriented in line with the first light path and a beam dump disposed on the third light path and including a surface upon which the second light beam portion is incident, the beam dump surface having ion implantation defects formed thereon to absorb a substantial entirety of the second light beam portion. | 01-05-2012 |
20120152537 | AUGER FOR GAS AND LIQUID RECOVERY FROM REGOLITH - A resource recovery system includes a capture container located at a desired surface defining a capture volume between the surface and an interior of the capture container. One or more hole-making devices are located in the capture container to excavate soil from at least one hole in the surface. A heater located in the hole making device heats the excavated soil, releasing one or more compounds from the excavated soil. The capture container is configured to capture gas and/or liquid compounds released from the excavated soil. A method of resource extraction from soil includes covering a desired surface with a capture container defining a capture volume between the desired surface and an interior of the capture container. Soil is excavated from a hole in the desired surface into the capture volume with an auger. The auger heats the excavated soil thereby releasing one or more compounds into the capture volume. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155966 | GAS AND LIQUID RECOVERY FROM REGOLITH - A resource recovery system includes a capture container located at a desired surface defining a capture volume between the surface and an interior of the capture container. One or more hole-making devices are configured to excavate soil from at least one hole in the surface. One or more energy emitters direct energy toward the excavated soil to heat the excavated soil thereby releasing one or more compounds. The capture container is configured to capture gas and/or liquid compounds released from the excavated soil. A method of resource extraction from soil includes covering a desired surface with a capture container defining a capture volume between the desired surface and an interior of the capture container. Soil is excavated from a hole in the desired surface into the capture volume. The excavated soil is heated via one or more energy emitters thereby releasing one or more compounds into the capture volume. | 06-21-2012 |
20130167831 | THERMAL INSULATOR HAVING INFRARED-REFLECTIVE COATING - A thermal insulator includes a plurality of insulation layers with a first insulation layer spaced apart from a second insulation layer such that there is an open gap there between. At least one of the first insulation layer or the second insulation layer includes a substrate and an infrared-reflective coating on the substrate. | 07-04-2013 |
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20090198295 | Intravascular Medical Device - An implantable medical device is configured so that all of the major components including a housing and attached leads are disposed within the vasculature of a patient. A tether extends from the housing of the device to an implant location where the tether is secured to tissue outside of the vasculature. In this manner, an intravascular medical device may be implanted at a location remote from final placement, delivered via the vasculature and anchored at the initial entry point. | 08-06-2009 |
20100137936 | INTRAVASCULAR MEDICAL DEVICE - An implantable medical device is configured so that all of the major components including a housing and attached leads are disposed within the vasculature of a patient. A tether extends from the housing of the device to an implant location where the tether is secured to tissue outside of the vasculature. In this manner, an intravascular medical device may be implanted at a location remote from final placement, delivered via the vasculature and anchored at the initial entry point. | 06-03-2010 |
20100152804 | SECURE AND EFFICACIOUS THERAPY DELIVERY FOR A PACING ENGINE - The above-described methods and apparatus are believed to be of particular benefit for patients suffering heart failure including cardiac dysfunction, chronic HF, and the like and all variants as described herein and including those known to those of skill in the art to which the invention is directed. It will understood that the present invention offers the possibility of monitoring and therapy of a wide variety of acute and chronic cardiac dysfunctions. The current invention provides systems and methods for delivering therapy for cardiac hemodynamic dysfunction via the innervated myocardial substrate receives one or more discrete pulses of electrical stimulation during the refractory period of said innervated myocardial substrate. | 06-17-2010 |
20120303084 | SECURE AND EFFICACIOUS THERAPY DELIVERY FOR A PACING ENGINE - The above-described methods and apparatus are believed to be of particular benefit for patients suffering heart failure including cardiac dysfunction, chronic HF, and the like and all variants as described herein and including those known to those of skill in the art to which the invention is directed. It will understood that the present invention offers the possibility of monitoring and therapy of a wide variety of acute and chronic cardiac dysfunctions. The current invention provides systems and methods for delivering therapy for cardiac hemodynamic dysfunction via the innervated myocardial substrate receives one or more discrete pulses of electrical stimulation during the refractory period of said innervated myocardial substrate. | 11-29-2012 |
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20080208494 | Method and Device for Determining the Charge and/or Aging State of an Energy Store - In a method and a device for determining a charge/aging state of an energy store, the charge/aging state is able to be determined by a control unit on the basis of an open terminal voltage of the energy store, able to be measured with the aid of a voltage-measuring sensor, in a load-free state. It is provided that the control unit initiates a measurement of a first open terminal voltage at a first instant following the occurrence of the load-free state of the energy store and, based on the measured first open terminal voltage, the control unit, with the aid of a prediction model, specifies a future instant for at least one additional measurement of the open terminal voltage, and at least one additional open terminal voltage is measured at the future instant, and the charge/aging state of the energy store is determined with the aid of the at least one additional open terminal voltage. | 08-28-2008 |
20080209886 | Method for Controlling an Operation of a Heatable Exhaust-Gas Sensor of a Motor Vehicle - A method is for controlling the operation of an exhaust-gas sensor disposed in an exhaust duct of a motor vehicle and equipped with an internal or external sensor heating device, the motor vehicle including a combustion engine and an automatic switchoff, which causes an automatic switching off of the combustion engine when at least one stop condition is present. It is provided that: (a) following an automatic switching off of the combustion engine by the automatic switchoff, a first future instant is determined at which the exhaust-gas temperature in the exhaust duct will drop below a condensation temperature below which condensate precipitation from the exhaust gas may occur; (b) a second instant is determined at which a heat output of the sensor heating device must be interrupted or reduced so that a sensor temperature of the exhaust-gas sensor will have dropped to a maximally allowed sensor temperature no later than the first future instant; and the heat output of the sensor heating device is interrupted or reduced when the second instant is attained. | 09-04-2008 |
20080227589 | Method for Controlling an Overrun Condition of a Hybrid Vehicle and Hybrid Vehicle - A method is for controlling an overrun condition in a hybrid vehicle having a combustion engine and additionally at least one electric motor as well as an overrun fuel cutoff, which interrupts a fuel supply to the combustion engine when the vehicle is in an overrun condition and restores the fuel supply when the combustion engine reaches or falls below a restoring speed. At least in a combustion engine at operating temperature, the fuel supply is restored at a restoring speed of at most 200 min | 09-18-2008 |
20090146615 | Hybrid Motor Vehicle and Method for Controlling Operation of a Hybrid Motor Vehicle - The invention relates to a method for controlling an operation of a motor vehicle equipped with a hybrid drive unit ( | 06-11-2009 |
20100108009 | Method and Device for the Optimized Starting of an Internal Combustion Engine - A method and a device are for the optimized starting of an internal combustion engine using a starter, which is connected to a capacitor store, the capacitor store being connected via a DC/DC converter to a vehicle electrical system of a vehicle, and the vehicle electrical system including an energy store for supplying electrical energy having a nominal voltage, and the starter consuming a starting energy for starting the internal combustion engine, which is a function of a temperature of the internal combustion engine, the temperature of the internal combustion engine being measured by at least one temperature sensor and the capacitor store being charged to a setpoint voltage with the aid of a battery via another DC/DC converter, which connects the battery in parallel to the capacitor store parallel to a switch, the setpoint voltage being set by a control unit such that the electrical energy stored in the capacitor store charged to the setpoint voltage is greater than the starting energy ascertained on the basis of the measured temperature. | 05-06-2010 |