Abstract: Oil well auxiliary power system. The oil well auxiliary power system includes a prime mover coupled to a pumpjack. The prime mover comprises a motor. A stub shaft is coupled to the motor of the prime mover. A gear system is coupled to the stub shaft. A generator is coupled to the gear system.

Abstract: A connector is provided with a housing 10 including a rear surface portion 28 facing rearward and a housing side surface portion 29 facing laterally, and a cover 60 held on the housing 10, the cover 60 surrounding wires 25 pulled out from the rear surface portion side 28. The cover 60 includes a cover side surface portion 82 arranged toward the housing side surface portion 29 with respect to a front-rear direction with the cover 60 held on the housing 10. A restricting portion 83 is provided to straddle between the housing side surface portion 29 and the cover side surface portion 82.

Abstract: A vertically arranged water tower system is operated using a long buoyant device that spans upper and lower chambers thru a watertight compressible bellows. Raising the buoyant device by controlling the water level in the water tower creates a void in the lower chamber, equal to the volume of the buoyant device no longer in the lower chamber. The void is created without displacing water in the lower chamber. Water or a buoyant object fills the void from slightly higher level than the lower chamber. After reconnecting the upper and lower chambers, water is extracted and released near the top of the upper chamber and the buoyant device is lowered. Released water is used for energy and power productions and recycled.

Abstract: Provided is a battery unit including: a power supply; a detector configured to detect an output voltage of the power supply; a connecting configured to be connectable with a load for atomizing an aerosol source or heating a flavor source; and a controller capable of executing a power supply mode in which electric power is supplied to the load from the power supply. The controller executes a specific control different from the supply of electric power to the load based on am amount of change in the output voltage per a predetermined time period in the power supply mode.

Abstract: An electrical generator is provided. The electrical generator can include a generator, an electric motor, and a battery. The generator has a rotatable shaft and stationary component and be operatively coupled via a drive belt to the motor, which provides torque to the rotatable shaft of the generator The battery is operatively coupled to the motor. The generator can be operatively coupled to a utility grid via a transformer/invertor that can import current from the utility grid to charge the battery when the utility grid is operating and export current from the generator to a grid connector when the utility grid is not operating. The current generated from a cooldown, powerup, or an excess of power from the generator can be stored in a current storage tank, which can include a sensor configured to signal the cooldown of the generator on detecting of load.

Abstract: A system and method of interrupting power to an ignition coil in a marine engine during an actuation of a shift cable for transitioning between gears is provided. The method includes connecting a sensor assembly to the shift cable. The sensor assembly includes magnets, a Hall sensor for magnetic sensing, and a control circuit. The magnets are configured to pass by the Hall sensor, which senses a change in polarity of the magnets. The control circuit is configured to interrupt power to the ignition coil. The method includes sensing a polarity of the magnets; determining if the polarity of the magnets has changed; and sending a signal to the control circuit based on the change in polarity of the magnets, which causes an output interrupting power to the ignition coil.

Abstract: Mixed reality glasses, hygienically operate a public device, whose physical control panel, is touched by other users. The glasses display the device's control panel, in midair. A user touches, the control panel's input icons, to activate the icons. The activated icons, activate operations, of the device. The devices can be operated one, after another, such as, an elevator, and then a vending machine. The glasses download the devices, operating control panel wirelessly, when close to the device. The devices locations, are shown, on a midair map. By touching air molecules, when touching the input icons, a smart toilet, is operated sanitarily. The icons, remove the need to touch, a self serve store's checkout physical input buttons, that may have viruses on them. The mid-air icons, can aide a wheelchair user, when operating a public self driving car, by allowing the car's input icons, to be located near them.

Abstract: A blade for cycloidal rotor or propeller is provided with means to dynamically change within each revolution: its relative pivot point location along chord, extend or retract trailing edge, make actuated or passive turns of trailing edge flap, dynamically control stiffness of at least the flexible trailing edge, open or close strips covering much of blade surface area to allow flow through the blade. These features will enable the control system to continually adjust each blade to its immediate operating environment along the orbit.

Abstract: Given that power blackouts occur very infrequently, a TRANSportable GENset emissions reduction system (XGEN) that fixes a larger and more significant problem of reducing emissions from routine periodic testing of gensets, whereas the system may be scheduled to be shared by a multitude of gensets, thereby reducing costs through efficient use of capital expenditures while also increasing the quality of emissions reductions as compared to applying individual exhaust treatments each genset.

Abstract: An electric connector includes a housing and a pair of reinforcing metal fittings. The housing has a bottom wall having a rectangular shape, a pair of short walls, a pair of long walls, and an island-shaped protruding wall surrounded by the short walls and the long walls. The reinforcing metal fitting has an upper plate part along an upper face of the short wall, an outer plate part along an outer side face of the short wall, and a pair of side plate parts extending from the upper plate part along inner side faces of the pair of long walls. The pair of side plate parts has a mounting part to be fixed to a mounting face and a long wall reinforcing wall part whose plate thickness face is directed in a direction in which the long wall is stood.

Abstract: A compact ECG snap connector is disclosed. A channeled U shaped body is formed from a thin sheet of electrically conductive and resilient material. The body is dimensioned to be compatible with standard ECG snap connector pins, and can be fastened to a printed circuit board. Fixed structures located in proximity to the channeled U shaped body provide mechanical restrictions on the expansion and contraction of the channeled U shaped body's aperture.

Abstract: The operation of the ultra-high frequency (UHF) electromagnetic motor or thruster, is based on generating extremely short and powerful electrical, magnetic or electromagnetic field pulses and separating (unrooting) or disassociating said field pulses from the originating source, so that subsequently the emitting device and a device that is the objective or target, a support structure that supports both devices and another elements connected to said support structure are for an instant disassociated from the field, waiting for the pulsed field to reach the objective or target. At that moment, the element emits a field with a polarization that allows the exertion of a force that attracts or repels the field pulse, with respect to the objective or target and consequently with respect to the motor of which they form part as a unit, both the emitter and the target being joined by a support structure.

Abstract: Systems and methods of self-replenishing power supply, having two modes of operation, are provided. The first mode of operation being a power delivery mode, where at least one charge bank comprised of rechargeable batteries couples to a power output port for supplying power to users. When a governance module detects a charge bank level is below a defined threshold it may switch another charge bank into user support and simultaneously initiates the second mode of operation, a power charging mode. Wherein, a power generator is enabled to generate power to recharge any depleted charge bank and may enable a charging module that expeditiously replenishes respective charge bank depletion. When all charge banks are recharged, the power charging mode is temporarily suspended until a low level is again detected, then the cycle recurs. Thereby, a self-replenishing, continuous, supply of power is available to the user.

Abstract: A gravity and buoyancy engine producing energy via a cyclical process of harnessed gravity and buoyancy has a gravity chamber, at least one air lock chamber, at least one electricity producing system, at least one buoyant object, and at least one vertical motion transfer assembly. The gravity chamber provides a zone for the buoyant object to engage the vertical motion transfer assembly as the buoyant object descends toward the air lock chamber. The vertical motion transfer assembly further transfers kinetic energy from the vertical motion of the buoyant object to the electricity generating system in order to provide useable electrical energy. The airlock chamber subsequently reintroduces the buoyant object into the buoyancy chamber to return said buoyant object to an elevated position and recycle through the gravity chamber.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for wind turbine vane pitch control including a turbine shaft that transmits mechanical power, a vane support structure that is coupled to the turbine shaft, a vane that is coupled to the vane support structure through a vane shaft, a balancing weight that is coupled to a first location of the vane, and an alignment weight that is coupled to a second location of the vane.

Abstract: The invention describes a metal container that comprises a cathode containing an insulated anode with gases at pressures less than a fraction (0.1-0.9) of a mmHg. Metallic normal glow discharge diode and triode devices with large cold cathode area as efficient charge generator to function as a power cell. A metallic glow discharge device comprising a cylindrical cathode and a coaxial insulated anode containing gas at very low pressure utilizing radial electric field. A metallic normal glow discharge diode device containing a planar geometry, with an insulated metallic plate parallel to the broad side of the container forms the anode, while the container acts as the cathode.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing that has an opening fitting with a mating connector, a plate-shaped terminal that is housed and held in the housing with a first side surface of the terminal facing the opening, an insulating cover member that is mounted on the terminal and covers the first side surface, and a holder that has through-holes into which mating terminals as terminals of the mating connector are inserted, is attached to the housing from the opening side, and locks the cover member.

Abstract: Capsule systems and methods for long-term storage and/or disposal of high-level nuclear waste in deep geologic formations are described. Such systems and methods may include waste-capsules constructed substantially from granite or similar igneous rock material into which the nuclear waste material is placed before capsule insertion into a geologically deep wellbore.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a dielectric elastomer transducer including a dielectric elastomer layer and electrode layers sandwiching the elastomer layer. The elastomer layer when stretched exhibits a stress-strain curve having: a low strain and high elasticity region; a low elasticity region; and a high strain region. The method includes: a pre-stretching process to reduce hysteresis in elastic behavior of the elastomer layer by stretching the elastomer layer one or more times under a load as heavy as a first load before the electrodes are provided, each stretching causing the elastomer layer to undergo a tension falling in the low elasticity region; and a dielectric elastomer layer fixing process including applying a second load smaller than the first load to the elastomer layer so as to fix the elastomer layer to a support member under a second tension smaller than the first tension.

Abstract: Components for generating power using some mechanical gears combined with electric components are wired to generate electricity to power electric vehicles, including a 3-phase alternator, a combination of transformers, an extended shaft in union with the main shaft of the starter motor, a system of pulleys, and a rotating belt. Using a pattern of engineering to assemble these apparatuses and combining these tools with a source of electricity generate a high voltage of electricity that passes through wires that is decreased to a low voltage enables low current to be used to operate electric vehicles.