Abstract: The invention provides a device and method for converting reciprocating motion of various amplitudes and frequencies into unidirectional fluid flow, comprising a piston section and a valves section. The unidirectional fluid flow may then be used for various processes including for example conversion to mechanical or electrical power.

Abstract: A novel oscillator comprises a curved sheet structure. The curved sheet structure comprises a curved sheet and a tensioner. The curved sheet structure oscillates when the tensioner of the curved sheet structure is extended between two rigidly or semi rigidly fixed points and the curved sheet structure is exposed to a fluid flow. The oscillation results in oscillating tension in the tensioner and oscillating motion of the tensioner in directions perpendicular and parallel to the direction of fluid flow. Energy conversion devices to couple the energy out of the oscillator include a coupling in line with the tensioner and a coupling generally perpendicular to the extension of the tensioner.

Abstract: A novel oscillator comprises a curved sheet structure. The curved sheet structure comprises a curved sheet and a tensioner. The curved sheet structure oscillates when the tensioner of the curved sheet structure is extended between two rigidly or semi rigidly fixed points and the curved sheet structure is exposed to a fluid flow. The oscillation results in oscillating tension in the tensioner and oscillating motion of the tensioner in directions perpendicular and parallel to the direction of fluid flow. Energy conversion devices to couple the energy out of the oscillator include a coupling in line with the tensioner and a coupling generally perpendicular to the extension of the tensioner.

Abstract: An energy conditioner structure comprising a first electrode (120), a second electrode (80), and a shield structure (70, 110, 150) provides improved energy conditioning in electrical circuits. The structures may exist as discrete components or part of an integrated circuit. The shield structure in the energy conditioner structure does not electrically connect to any circuit element.

Abstract: An energy conditioner structure comprising a first electrode (120), a second electrode (80), and a shield structure (70, 110, 150) provides improved energy conditioning in electrical circuits. The structures may exist as discrete components or part of an integrated circuit. The shield structure in the energy conditioner structure does not electrically connect to any circuit element.

Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for generating nuclear fusion by generating and collapsing bubbles, comprising using a conduit for enclosing a liquid; a source of pressure to force said liquid to flow in said conduit; a bubble generator designed to generate bubbles in said conduit; and at least one of a pulsed laser positioned so that pulses of said pulsed laser impinge liquid in said conduit and a variation in cross-section of said conduit designed to induce rapid pressure changes in liquid flowing in said conduit; wherein said system is designed such that operation results in flow of liquid in the conduit and nuclear fusion of nuclei of atoms in said liquid.

Abstract: The invention provides a computer network system and a method of using the system to influence consumer retail store shopping behavior by offering a consumer an incentive to shop at first retail store if data analysis indicates that the consumer is likely to shop at a store competing for the consumer's business. The invention also provides means for determining the value and conditions imposed upon the consumer receiving the incentive offered based upon data indicating the differential value to the consumer in shopping at the competing retail store instead of the first retail store and data indicating the value to the first retail store of the consumer's anticipated purchase, if that purchase is made from the first retail store.

Abstract: A microwave transmission line is provided including a class of dielectric terials known as relaxor dielectrics having very high dielectric constants of greater than 1000, low dielectric loss and large variations of the real part of the dielectric constant with varying temperature. The phase of a microwave signal passed through such a transmission line is modulated by subjecting the transmission line to light that is absorbed in the dielectric layer causing a variation in the dielectric constant and a change in the velocity of the continuous microwave signal passing through the transmission line.

Abstract: A thin diamond film is prepared by immersing a substrate in a liquid conting carbon and hydrogen and then subjecting the substrate to at least one laser pulse.

Abstract: X-rays are created from a pulsed laser using a gaseous medium by focusing a aser pulse to a focal point in a gaseous medium causing a laser induced plasma in the gas which plasma emits x-rays.