Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080292528 | Methods of and systems for forming carbon based materials - In general, a system and method of the present invention include a seed material (for receiving deposited carbon atoms) is provided with an active edge, for instance, at a growth line. A form of carbon is provided from a suitable source, and it is deposited upon the edge generally in a deposition region. The growth line is a position where the portion of the seed attracts the materials for growth. The source is activated to produce carbon (C, C2, other C forms) in a form that has a sufficiently low activity so that it will bond to the active edge (as opposed to oxidizing into other molecules such as carbon oxides). As the carbon material is deposited (i.e., atomically bonded) to the edge, the seed material may be pulled at a desired rate, i.e., to “grow” carbon material in the form of a sheet, ribbon, roll, tube, or many other desirable forms as described further herein. | 11-27-2008 |
20090041993 | Patterned platelets - Patterned platelets are platelets made with specified shapes and sizes. The various sizes and shapes of the platelets are used to code articles and substances to which they are applied. The patterned platelets can be in inks or paints applied to articles. The platelets can be further coded by markings thereon or by spectral or polarization codes rather than just the distribution of sizes and shapes. The patterned platelets can be made from any materials buy subtractive or additive processes. A patterned platelet can also be made by an actinic polymer being applied to a substrate and a mask applied to allow only the desired size and shape to be exposed to radiation curing the unmasked portion of the polymer on the substrate. The polymer can be cholesteric liquid crystals with the properties of reflecting polarized light of selected wavelengths to code the crystals in addition to the size and shape codes. The cholesteric liquid crystals may also be doped with materials which absorb a portion of the wavelengths which would otherwise be reflected further coding the patterned platelets. Codes of the patterned platelets can be composed of the distribution of the platelets alone or in combination with the position of the platelets on an object A code with the presence or absence of a specified patterned platelet in a specified location could be a binary code. If n different patterned platelets are used in each of x positions a code with x to the nth-power combinations is possible. | 02-12-2009 |
20090063675 | Internet-based method of and system for monitoring space-time coordinate information - An Internet-based method of and system for monitoring space-time coordinate information and biophysiological state information collected from an animate object moving along a course through the space-time continuum. The Internet-based system comprise a wireless GSU-enabled client network device affixed to the body of an animate object. The wireless device includes a global synchronization unit (GSU) for automatically generating time and space (TS) coordinate information corresponding to the time and space coordinate of the animate object with respect to a globally referenced coordinate system, as the animate object moves along a course through the space time continuum. The device also includes biophysiological state sensor affixed to the body of the animate object, for automatically sensing the biophysiological state of the animate object and generating biophysiological state information indicative of the sensed biophysiological state of the animate object along its course. The wireless device also includes a wireless date transmitter for transmitting the TS coordinate information and the biophysiological state information through free-space. A TS-stamping based tracking server receives the TS coordinate information and the biophysiological state information through in a wireless manner, and stores the same as the animate object moves along its course. An Internet information server serves Internet-based documents containing the collected TS coordinate and biophysiological state information. An Internet-enabled client system enables authorized persons to view the served Internet-based documents and monitor the collected TS coordinate and biophysiological state information, for various purposes. | 03-05-2009 |
20090065471 | MICRO-NOZZLE, NANO-NOZZLE, MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREFOR, APPLICATIONS THEREFOR - A nozzle structure is provided comprising a monolithic body having an array of nozzles. The nozzles having openings with sectional openings having heights of about 100 nm or less. The nozzles are generally associated with one or more well structures. | 03-12-2009 |
20100071100 | Probes, Methods of Making Probes, and Applications using Probes - Provided herein are methods and apparatuses for analyzing molecules, particularly polymers, and molecular complexes with extended conformations. In particular, the methods and apparatuses are used to identify sequence information in molecules or molecular ensembles, which is subsequently used to determine structural information about the molecules. Further, provided herein are various methods of forming probes and films for making such probes of nanoscale dimension. | 03-18-2010 |
20110091325 | Tool and Method for Rapid Design and Reduction of Rotor Mass - Wind turbine rotors are designed by means of computationally intensive algorithms, simulation tools and various models. These art methods, however, have not been successful in relating the blade mass directly to the aerodynamic, rotational dynamics and material parameters. Consequently, modelers are often grappling with discrepancies and ambiguities. Prior art generally constructs the empirical relation M | 04-21-2011 |
20110311722 | Method of and system for forming nanostructures and nanotubes - The present invention relates to a methods of and systems for forming nanostructures having precise dimensions and configurations. A structure is provided with lattice mismatch on a substrate or intermediate layer. Curling is self induced or induced by pressure and/or temperature to form precise nanostructures and nanotubes, in term of precise length and precise diameter, as well as of precise configuration. | 12-22-2011 |
20140325908 | High Density Three Dimensional Multi-Layer Farming - In order to achieve food and energy security, while at the same time eliminating the “food vs. biofuel” conflict, a transformational three dimensional multilayer farming, MLF, is presented. This exploits the third dimension. This goal is realizable by the disclosed means and methods to increase the 3D plant productivity, 3D yield, ton/m3/year, using ultra-compact ultra high density vertical structures. Each layer in the MLF system comprises at least one string of SanSSoil Growth Elements, SGEs, each designed to carry out multiple functions essential to sustain plant growth, and constructed in a manner to integrate these functions at low-cost. The networked strings of SGEs in each layer provide near self-sufficiency for growth, and in an integrated MLF system, achieve maximum vertical compactness and highest growth density. The multi-functions of each integrally made SGE include: germination, growth sustenance, localized delivery of nutrients, environment sensing, and localized delivery of illumination. | 11-06-2014 |
20140325909 | Permeable Three Dimensional Multi-Layer Farming - To achieve food and energy security a transformational three dimensional multilayer farming, multilevel farming (MLF) is required. This is path to eliminating the conflict of “food vs. biofuel” and achieving both food and energy security. However, this goal is only realizable if such 3D MLF systems are economically viable. Each layer in the MLF system comprises at least one string of SanSSoil Growth Elements each of which carries out multiple functions to sustain plant growth. In addition, all the layers comprise permeability features enabling sharing of resources to minimize the initial capital cost and the variable cost of consumables: i)—light permeable layers so that minimum artificial lights are used and shared throughout; ii) roots and shoots of plants in each layer share space of roots and shoots of adjacent layers achieving vertical space compression; and iii) the layers are permeable to nutrient fluids to minimize fluid delivery sources. | 11-06-2014 |
20140325910 | Traveling Seed Amplifier, TSA, Continuous Flow Farming of Material Products, MP - A novel continuous flow farming method for the production of material products is introduced. It is based on 3D SansSoil, (soil-less) mobile multi-layer architecture comprising the traveling seed amplifier, TSA concept, which features the continuous planting of seed mass m | 11-06-2014 |
20140330406 | SanSSoil (Soil-less) Indoor Farming for Food and Energy Production - To produce food, plants rely on three main ingredients, sun energy, water, and carbon dioxide, the cost of which is zero. To address the food and energy security concerns, two mysteries are resolved for the first time: i)—Photosynthetic efficiency is known to be very low, the scientific full accounting for all the losses is lacking; ii)—Fanning is known to be profitable, yet accounting for the zero cost of solar energy is not understood. This inventor resolved them by the derivation of a simple mathematical law, AgriPAL, comprising explicitly, a new solar gain factor >200× which offset the low efficiency of ˜0.005. In the absence of the sun, the newly found solar gain goes to 1. Since SanSSoil enables harnessing the third dimension, the sky is the limit. Water saving of >100 is realized through the controlled enclosed environment, which also encourages increased use of GMO for food and biofuel. | 11-06-2014 |