Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090139331 | Accelerometer - A 3-dimensional MEMS accelerometer fabricated on a single planar substrate deploys three co-planar sensor elements. Each sensor element is a capacitive device deploying a static electrode plate and a parallel dynamic electrode plate supported by a torsion beam. The dynamic electrode plate also includes a proof mass portion that displaces the center of gravity to below the plane of the plate. Two of the sensor elements are identical and rotated by 90 degrees on the planar substrate. The third capacitive sensor has two pairs of adjacent capacitive plates, each one having a dynamic electrode plate is suspended by a torsion beam. The proof mass on each dynamic electrode plates however is offset laterally from the torsion axis in opposite directions from the other plates to cancel the their respective capacitance charges induced by in-plane acceleration. However, this arrangement also adds the capacitive change induced by acceleration orthogonal to the planar substrate. | 06-04-2009 |
20100237747 | Piezoelectric Composite Material - A composition of matter having multiple layers of different conductors separated by thin layers of dielectric materials has a high piezoelectric coefficient when the conductors are metals having a significant difference in work function and the dielectric materials have a low elastic modulus when the metal layers are connected to form a capacitive circuit. Alternatively, when the conductors are semi-conductors they should have a significant difference in Fermi levels. | 09-23-2010 |
20110184649 | Method of Assessing Risk in an Area - A method and system for the evaluation of the probability for the presence of suspicious materials is presented. The proposed system will be able to continuously monitor a large area or a gate passage, without a specific need for a manual full-body search or manual inspection or the use of sniffers or sniffing dogs (although the system can be embedded within such a gate), and will allow to detect suspicious materials, not by identifying the specific material, but rather by at least one of the chemical and/or physical analysis of the commonality of all detected materials against the statistical accumulation database of all material properties that were presented to the system in the past. | 07-28-2011 |
20120241616 | META MATERIALS INTEGRATION, DETECTION AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS - A detector and modulator of electromagnetic radiation is 3-dimensional structure made of substantially 2 dimensional high impedance metamaterial surfaces stacked one above the other with a dielectric layer in between and located above a conducting ground plane. Each 2 dimension surface may be formed by an open continuous conductive trace, such as metallic wire or a printed circuit line, which is cast or plated on or into a 2-D periodic arrangement of an element that belongs to the Hilbert space filling curves. | 09-27-2012 |
20130194843 | AC/DC LOW VOLTAGE POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND METHOD OF STEPPING DOWN AC/DC VOLTAGE - An alternating current/direct current (AC/DC) power supply device includes a stepping down unit for stepping down voltage provided by an electric power source, wherein the power source provides a voltage up to but not exceeding a predetermined value. The stepping down unit includes a switch for connecting or disconnecting an energy storage device or a load device to an AC electrical source. | 08-01-2013 |
20130278224 | SELECTIVE CONTROL FOR IMPROVING SWITCHED POWER SUPPLIES - A power converter and a method of operation thereof is disclosed including an input, an output, a sensor unit, a switched power converter, and a processor module. The power converter may convert an input power into an output power. The power converter may sense real-time measurements of the input power and the output power to determine a real-time calculated efficiency. The power converter may chop the input power into sized and positioned portions of the input power based on a plurality of determined operating parameters. The power converter may determine the operating parameters based on the real-time calculated efficiency and on a plurality of other operating factors/conditions. | 10-24-2013 |
20130279223 | SENSING AND CONTROL FOR IMPROVING SWITCHED POWER SUPPLIES - A power converter and a method of operation thereof is disclosed including an input, an output, a sensor unit, a switched power converter, and a processor module. The power converter may convert an input power into an output power. The power converter may sense real-time measurements of the input power and the output power to determine a real-time calculated efficiency. The power converter may chop the input power into sized and positioned portions of the input power based on a plurality of determined operating parameters. The power converter may determine the operating parameters based on the real-time calculated efficiency and on a plurality of other operating factors/conditions. | 10-24-2013 |
20130279224 | EFFICIENCY DYNAMIC POWER CONVERTER - A power converter and a method of operation thereof is disclosed including an input, an output, a sensor unit, a switched power converter, and a processor module. The power converter may convert an input power into an output power. The power converter may sense real-time measurements of the input power and the output power to determine a real-time calculated efficiency. The power converter may chop the input power into sized and positioned portions of the input power based on a plurality of determined operating parameters. The power converter may determine the operating parameters based on the real-time calculated efficiency and on a plurality of other operating factors/conditions. | 10-24-2013 |
20130279226 | VARIABLE INPUT CONTROL FOR IMPROVING SWITCHED POWER SUPPLIES - A power converter and a method of operation thereof is disclosed including an input, an output, a sensor unit, a switched power converter, and a processor module. The power converter may convert an input power into an output power. The power converter may sense real-time measurements of the input power and the output power to determine a real-time calculated efficiency. The power converter may chop the input power into sized and positioned portions of the input power based on a plurality of determined operating parameters. The power converter may determine the operating parameters based on the real-time calculated efficiency and on a plurality of other operating factors/conditions. | 10-24-2013 |
20140316597 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING SELF-POWER CONSUMPTION OF A CONTROLLER-BASED DEVICE - A device and method are disclosed for optimizing self-power consumption. The device may sense one or more operating conditions of the device. The device may further select one or more operating parameters associated with at least one of the one or more operating conditions. The device may also estimate a power consumption associated with executing an algorithm to generate at least one updated value for at least one of the one or more operating parameters as well as estimate a power savings associated with operating using the updated value. The device may compare the estimated power consumption to the estimated power savings and determine whether to execute the algorithm based on the comparing. | 10-23-2014 |