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Dispersion of stored energy within a battery system at risk of failure
Patent • #US12255296B2. A method and system for dispersing stored energy in an energy storage system to delay or arrest propagation of thermal runaway and thermally-induced cascading failures. The system includes a plurality of battery sub-assemblies and DC-DC converters connected to a shared DC bus through which energy may be exchanged. The...
Dispersion of stored energy within a battery system at risk of failure
Patent • #US11855264B1. A method and system for dispersing stored energy in an energy storage system to delay or arrest propagation of thermal runaway and thermally-induced cascading failures. The system includes a plurality of battery sub-assemblies and DC-DC converters connected to a shared DC bus through which energy may be exchanged. The...
Disposable garment and donning system
Patent • #US11779143B2. A donning system allows a user to don disposable garments without contaminating the exterior of the garment. The disposable garment is part of a garment package, which also includes a cuff by which the garment is loaded into and dispensed from the donning system. The cuff includes elements whereby...
Disposable garment and donning system
Patent • #US10925424B2. A donning system allows a user to don disposable garments without contaminating the exterior of the garment. The disposable garment is part of a garment package, which also includes a cuff by which the garment is loaded into and dispensed from the donning system. The cuff includes elements whereby...
Doped luminescent materials and particle discrimination using same
Patent • #US8853651B2. Doped luminescent materials are provided for converting excited triplet states to radiative hybrid states. The doped materials may be used to conduct pulse shape discrimination (PSD) using luminescence generated by harvested excited triplet states. The doped materials may also be used to detect particles using spectral shape discrimination (SSD).
Doppler-assisted sensor fusion
Patent • #US10267895B1. Various technologies for identifying RF emitters in geolocation datasets are described herein. Doppler signatures of RF emitters and geolocation data of objects in a scene are collected simultaneously, then range-rate profiles of the movement of the RF emitters and the objects in the scene are computed. An RF emitter...
Double charge composite materials for contaminant removal and methods of making the same
Patent • #US11851350B1. A method for removing a contaminant from a fluid is provided. A positively charged layered double hydroxide is combined with a negatively charged clay material to form adsorption material. The adsorption material is contacted with an aqueous solution containing the contaminant to adsorb the contaminant onto the adsorption material.
Downhole to surface communications platform for drilling applications
Patent • #US11808144B1. A drilling assembly for downhole to surface communications is provided. The drilling assembly includes a series of pipe segments coupled in fluid communication between a slip ring assembly and an end pipe portion. The slip ring assembly is coupled in data and fluid communication with the pipe segments. A...
Downhole to surface communications platform for drilling applications
Patent • #US12378876B2. A drilling assembly for downhole to surface communications is provided. The drilling assembly includes a series of pipe segments coupled in fluid communication between a slip ring assembly and an end pipe portion. The slip ring assembly is coupled in data and fluid communication with the pipe segments. A...
Dropkinson Bar
Featured Opportunity • Sandia National Laboratories has developed an experimental apparatus that is capable of obtaining intermediate-rate stress-strain data of materials that have previously been unavailable due to a lack of instrument precision. Combining a quasi-static testing frame and conventional split Hopkinson bar tests, Sandia’s Dropkinson Bar allows for full-suite reliable and precise...
Dual frequency transceiver device
Patent • #US10984300B2. A transceiver device for receiving an interrogation signal at a first carrier frequency and for transmitting a response signal at a second carrier frequency is disclosed. The interrogation signal comprises the first carrier frequency modulated at the second carrier frequency. The communication device includes a sensor coupled to a...
Dual-band GPS antenna with horizontal polarization
Patent • #US10290950B1. An antenna array is described herein that is suitable for dual-band GPS reception. The antenna array includes a plurality of dipole antennas arranged in a circular pattern. The antenna array further includes a feed network, separated from the dipole antennas by an insulating plate, and that passes electrical signals...
Dual-etalon cavity ring-down frequency-comb spectroscopy with broad band light source
Patent • #US8693004B2. In an embodiment, a dual-etalon cavity-ring-down frequency-comb spectrometer system is described. A broad band light source is split into two beams. One beam travels through a first etalon and a sample under test, while the other beam travels through a second etalon, and the two beams are recombined onto...
Dual-Etalon Frequency-Comb Spectrometer
Featured Opportunity • Absorption spectroscopy is the most quantitative and straightforward means of measuring the concentration and temperature of a species having a known spectrum. The primary criteria associated with using absorption spectroscopy, as an everyday tool for identifying environmental contaminates, are that large spectral bandwidths with good resolution are needed and high...
Dual-mode oscillator for stress compensated cut resonator
Patent • #US11456701B1. Both parallel-type and serial-type dual-mode oscillators employing stress compensated cut resonators having various configurations are disclosed. Both classes of dual-mode oscillators employ multiple tank circuits to pass one frequency of the resonator and block the other frequency. The tank circuits isolate the operation of the two oscillator sub-circuits that...
Dual-range linearized transimpedance amplifier system
Patent • #US7825735B1. A transimpedance amplifier system is disclosed which simultaneously generates a low-gain output signal and a high-gain output signal from an input current signal using a single transimpedance amplifier having two different feedback loops with different amplification factors to generate two different output voltage signals. One of the feedback loops...
Ducted Fuel Injection
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Ducted Fuel Injection
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Ducted fuel injection
Patent • #US10161626B2. Various technologies presented herein relate to enhancing mixing inside a combustion chamber to form one or more locally premixed mixtures comprising fuel and charge-gas to enable minimal, or no, generation of soot and/or other undesired emissions during ignition and subsequent combustion of the locally premixed mixtures. To enable sufficient...
Ducted fuel injection
Patent • #US9909549B2. Various technologies presented herein relate to enhancing mixing inside a combustion chamber to form one or more locally premixed mixtures comprising fuel and charge-gas with low peak fuel to charge-gas ratios to enable minimal, or no, generation of soot and other undesired emissions during ignition and subsequent combustion of...
Ducted Fuel Injection
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Ducted fuel injection
Patent • #US10801395B1. Various technologies presented herein relate to heating a fuel and enhancing fuel and charge-gas mixing inside a combustion chamber to enable minimal, or no, generation of soot and/or other undesired emissions during ignition and subsequent combustion of the locally premixed mixtures. To enable sufficient mixing of the fuel and...
Ducted Fuel Injection for Soot Reduction
Featured Opportunity • Reduces soot and other EPA regulated emissions in direct-injection engines Sandia National Laboratories has developed ducted fuel injection technology for the reduction of soot and other EPA regulated emissions in direct-injection engines. Typical direct-injection engines, such as diesel engines, can produce soot due to fuel-rich combustion conditions. Filters and catalytic...
Ducted fuel injection system alignment device
Patent • #US11713742B1. An alignment device for a ducted fuel injection system comprising a mounting block removably attachable to a duct of the ducted fuel injection system. The mounting block can include a passageway extending therethrough. The passageway can align with the duct when the mounting block is attached to the duct....
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