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THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR THE GENERATION OF COMPLEX THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES DIRECTLY FROM A CAD/CAM DATABASE WITHOUT THE NEED FOR PRELIMINARY PROCESSES (MOLDS) OR SUBSEQUENT MACHINING (THE PARTS ARE FABRICATED TO NET SHAPE). THE INNOVATION IS TO USE INDEPENDENTLY TARGETED PARTICLES OF METAL OR COMPOSITE METAL TO BUILD STRUCTURES UNDER COMPUTER CONTROL IN MUC ...

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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will address the core hardware and software issues necessary to yield a fully functioning multi-touch pressure-sensing screen by putting an Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance (IFSR) based sensor behind an electronic paper display. IFSR has significant advantages over other currently-available multi-touch solutions. These include ...

MACHINING IS THE LARGEST SINGLE APPLICATION (OVER 50%) OF LASERS TO MATERIALS PROCESSING. LASER CUTTING OF METALLIC MATERIALS IS FINDING INCREASING USE IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS BUT IS GENERALLY LIMITED TO THIN SECTIONS (5MM). THICKER-SECTION METAL CUTTING WITH LASERS SUFFERS FROM SEVERAL DRAWBACKS THAT INCLUDE LACK OF HEAT PENETRATION, LARGE KERF WIDTH, POOR CUT QUALITY, AND PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED ...

THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A CONVENTIONAL 3-CUP ANEMOMETER AND A HEATED THERMISTOR TO OBTAIN WIND SPEED AND WIND DIRECTION IS PROPOSED. THE TECHNIQUE ONLY REQUIRESKNOWLEDGE OF MONITORING THE ROTATION RATE OF THE ANEMOMETER AND DETERMINING THE PEAK RESPONSE OF A HEATED THERMISTOR WHICH IS EXPOSED TO THE FLOW ONCE WITH EACH REVOLUTION OF THE CUP ANEMOMETER VIA A SENSING PORT. THE TECHNIQUE DOES NOT RE ...

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project involves development of real-time algorithms for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) from documents. This real-time recognition (RT/OCR) system, to be fully developed under this SBIR award, performs recognition an order of magnitude fast ...

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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will focus on the design of a fully automated biosensor that will detect fecal contamination in recreational (beach) waters with ""same day"" results. The sophistication built into the CARD sensor will eliminate virtually all ""hands-on"" efforts and permit complicated tests to be performed by individuals of varying skill levels (inclu ...

A COMPUTER MODELING APPROACH IS PROPOSED TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF FRICTION OR TRACTION CHARACTERISTICS OF LUBRICANTS ON THE STABILITY OF BEARING ELEMENTS AND THE OVERALL LIFE OF A ROLLING BEARING. THE PROPOSED APPROACH CONSISTS OF USING AN EXISTING BEARING DYNAMICS COMPUTER PROGRAM TO SIMULATE THE DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE BEARING AS A FUNCTION OF THE FRICTION BEHAVIOR AT THE ROLLING ELEMENT/RACE, ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project seeks to further reduce the economic and environmental costs associated with sterilization of precursor materials for the Mycobond platform. Mycobond is a revolutionary material that is grown from agricultural byproducts and a vegetative growth of a filamentous fungus (basidiomycete mycelium). To ensure adequate growth all raw materials are ...