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...
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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....
Ducted fuel injection with ignition assist
Patent • #US10138855B2. 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...
Ductile coatings on additive manufactured components
Patent • #US11377750B1. A method of forming a coated component using an additive manufacturing system including building a body portion of the component on a build plate. An outer surface of the body portion can include an indentation resulting from the additive manufacturing system. The method further includes performing at least one...
Dynamic defense and network randomization for computer systems
Patent • #US9985984B1. The various technologies presented herein relate to determining a network attack is taking place, and further to adjust one or more network parameters such that the network becomes dynamically configured. A plurality of machine learning algorithms are configured to recognize an active attack pattern. Notification of the attack can...
Dynamic Mechanical Strain-Induced Temperature Gradient Coating
Featured Opportunity • A non-destructive coating to reduce false positives and enhance observations of dynamic thermal strain in sonic infrared (SIR) inspections Evaluating components for discontinuities without damaging the part or system remains a priority for diverse industries and research fields. Low-cost techniques such as fluorescent penetrant inspection (FPI) are used widely by...
Dynamic mode decomposition systems and methods to detect power quality events
Patent • #US12366598B1. Systems and methods for new systems and methods for detecting power quality disturbances, such as faults. The approach is based on the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD)—a data-driven method to estimate linear dynamics whose eigenvalues and eigenvectors approximate those of the Koopman operator. The approach uses the real part of...
Dynamic signature generation from keystroke dynamics
Patent • #US10693661B1. Described herein are various technologies pertaining to extracting cryptographic keys from user behavioral biometrics, specifically keystroke dynamics. Such cryptographic keys can be used for, among other things, user authentication throughout computer sessions. Keystroke dynamics are timing data indicating when keys were pressed and when they were released.
Dynamic tuning of chemiresistor sensitivity using mechanical strain
Patent • #US8846406B1. The sensitivity of a chemiresistor sensor can be dynamically tuned using mechanical strain. The increase in sensitivity is a smooth, continuous function of the applied strain, and the effect can be reversible. Sensitivity tuning enables the response curve of the sensor to be dynamically optimized for sensing analytes, such...
Dynamic, risk informed decision support systems and methods
Patent • #US10997513B1. The present disclosure is directed to a decision support system or tool based on a Bayesian Network (BN) framework. The diagnostic support tool is created by using advanced Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) method(s) to construct Bayesian Networks (BNs) that form a Bayesian Decision Support Process (BDSP) to provide science-based...
Dynamically reconfigurable photovoltaic system
Patent • #US9531322B2. A PV system composed of sub-arrays, each having a group of PV cells that are electrically connected to each other. A power management circuit for each sub-array has a communications interface and serves to connect or disconnect the sub-array to a programmable power grid. The power grid has bus...
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