Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for detecting airborne objects comprising a kill vehicle bus having a radar sensor. The radar sensor may be an interferometric sensor comprising a plurality of transmit-receive arrays. Each of the transmit-receive arrays may be adapted to be stowed in a stowed position in or on the kill vehicle bus, and may be adapted to be expandable from the stowed position to an operable position.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for detecting airborne objects comprising a kill vehicle bus having a radar sensor. The radar sensor may be an interferometric sensor comprising a plurality of transmit-receive arrays. Each of the transmit-receive arrays may be adapted to be stowed in a stowed position in or on the kill vehicle bus, and may be adapted to be expandable from the stowed position to an operable position.

Abstract: An electrical drive system includes an electric motor having an armature, which is mounted on a stator, and a rotor, wherein aligning stator flux with rotor flux enables current to flow in the armature without inducing torque on the rotor shaft. The disclosed operation may be used, for example, in testing the electrical drive system. The electric drive system can carry full rated current yet produce little or no torque, thereby increasing the current that can be tested during electrical drive test procedures without producing undesired forces or motion. The method may be used, for example, in heating the electric motor, for example for de-icing.

Abstract: An electrical drive system includes an electric motor having an armature, which is mounted on a stator, and a rotor, wherein aligning stator flux with rotor flux enables current to flow in the armature without inducing torque on the rotor shaft. The disclosed operation may be used, for example, in testing the electrical drive system. The electric drive system can carry full rated current yet produce little or no torque, thereby increasing the current that can be tested during electrical drive test procedures without producing undesired forces or motion. The method may be used, for example, in heating the electric motor, for example for de-icing.

Abstract: Provision of access to and possible information about one or more parts of a code or codes and/or other regulations that may be based on geographic location and relevance to a feature selected from an exemplary or other set of project plans. Features in the set of plans may be selectable. Information may be displayed based upon a selected feature and geographic location. Information may include part(s) of code(s) and/or other regulations relevant to the selected feature and geographic location, associated information, and illustration(s). The information may be displayed with or without the selected feature, in various formats, and/or selectively undisplayed to return to display of the selected feature or other display. The displayed information may include selectable elements associated with element information that also may be displayed such as in a cascade.

Abstract: The invention features methods of obtaining high-yield, essentially pure human predipocyte cultures. Cultures obtained according to the instant methodology are also featured as are methods of identifying adipogenic modulatory agents, e.g., high-throughput screening assays.

Abstract: The present invention relates to preadipocyte strains that maintain replicative potential and adipogenic capacity. In particular, the invention relates to preadipocytes engineered to express telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT). Use of the cells as research tools, in screening assays, and as therapeutic and/or clinical reagents is also described.

Abstract: A three-valve cylinder head system for a direct-injected spark-ignited (DISI) internal combustion engine. Two inlet ports are positioned in opposite quadrants of the cylinder head, with the fuel injector directing fuel spray into a third quadrant and the exhaust port being positioned in the fourth quadrant. A helicoid intake port and an axially directed intake port generate a swirl-type air flow in the piston cylinder without the aid of flow activation devices. The spark plug is positioned centrally adjacent the longitudinal axis of the cylinder bore. The piston has a bowl in its upper surface with an enlarged downstream area and a harbor area adjacent and past the spark plug which allow the swirl-type air flow to mix with the fuel spray and provide an appropriate fuel air mixture at the spark plug.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine cylinder head includes a pent roof (15) closing off a top of an engine cylinder (14) and first and second inclined surfaces (15a, 15b) intersecting an apex region (15c) of the pent roof. First and second air intake ports (20, 22) are formed in the pent roof surfaces and about respective first and second spiral axes (S1, S2) having respective radii (R1, R2, etc.) that change in magnitude and elevation as each air intake port approaches respective port entrances (20a, 22a) to the cylinder in a manner to provide air flows with in-cylinder air swirl in the same direction about the longitudinal axis of the cylinder.

Abstract: A piston-type, multicylinder internal combustion engine includes a cylinder block and a cylinder head mounted thereto, with a combustion chamber defined by the cylinder head and the top of the piston, with the engine being fueled by an an in-cylinder gasoline injection system which is centrally located with a spark plug such that the spark plug is closer to exhaust valves than is the injector, and with the injector being closer to the intake valves than the spark plug.