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  • Solenoid valve
    Patent number: 7410245
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solenoid valve made using certain materials which is capable of operation at high frequencies and which can be made as a compact unit. The plunger (1) is made from an electromagnetic material having a saturation flux density greater than 1.2 Tesla preferably more than 1.6 Tesla, the bore leading from the valve head chamber (14) to the nozzle orifice (12) has a length to diameter ratio of less than 5:1 preferably between 2:1 and 4:1 and the nozzle orifice (12) has a diameter of 80 micrometer or less. The invention also relates to method for operating a drop on demand ink jet printer incorporating such a valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Willett International Limited
    Inventors: David Andrew Horsnell, Matthew Brian Tomlin, Ammar Lecheheb, Oliver John Prime, Michael John Fox, Christopher Michael Bates
  • Methods and devices for aesthetic treatment of biological structures by radiofrequency and magnetic energy
    Patent number: 11484725
    Abstract: A treatment device for providing a magnetic treatment and a radiofrequency treatment to a body area of a patient. The device includes an energy storage device for storing electric energy, a magnetic field generating device, and a switching device to discharge the electrical energy from the energy storage device to the magnetic field generating device, such that a time-varying magnetic field is generated and provides muscle contraction to a muscle in the body area of the patient. The time-varying magnetic field may have a magnetic field density in a range of 0.1 Tesla to 7 Tesla and a repetition rate in a range of 0.1 Hz to 700 Hz. The device may also include a radiofrequency electrode to generate radiofrequency waves to heat a tissue in the body of the patient. A body of the radiofrequency electrode may include a plurality of openings in a range of 5 to 1000 openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: BTL Medical Solutions A.S.
    Inventors: Tomás Schwarz, Frantisek Lang
  • Method and apparatus for the selective, self-aligned deposition of metal layers
    Patent number: 4569743
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the selective deposition of metal layers on a substrate. At least one metal layer is deposited in a self-aligned manner on conductive regions on the surface of isolating or semiconductive substrates, for which purpose the conductive regions are arranged facing a metal plate having at least one layer of the metal to be deposited, and Tesla currents are generated between the metal plate and the regions to be coated. The apparatus for implementing the method includes a metal plate, a Tesla transformer which is coupled to the metal plate or to a metal grid, spaced apart from the surface of the metal plate away from the conductive regions, having closely adjacent and regularly distributed spikes pointing towards the metal. This method may be used, for example, to produce conductors on or in ceramic modules, circuit cards and semiconductor elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Bayer, Georg Kraus, Ulrich Kuenzel, Gisela Renz, Rolf Schaefer
  • Systems and Methods for Dicharging Electrical Energy
    Publication number: 20140245916
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for igniting or disabling explosive devices through the generation of strong electrical fields and/or the discharge of electrical energy. In one embodiment, a remotely controlled vehicle is provided to remotely detonate or disable improvised explosive devices. The vehicle may contain a high-voltage power supply powering a Tesla coil. The secondary coil of the Tesla coil is attached to an electrode that is swept across an area where an explosive device may be present. The strong electric field around the electrode may induce current within an explosive device or wires connected thereto resulting in the explosive device being ignited or disabled. Discharges from the electrode may directly ignite explosive material or disable detonation control circuitry. The electrode may be located distal to the vehicle and the vehicle itself may be hardened to enhance survivability in the event of an explosion in proximity to the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Richard J. Adler, Vernon Michael Weeks, Michael Knight Wiley, Clinton Scott Caldwell
  • ACTIVE TRANSMIT ELEMENTS FOR MRI COILS AND OTHER ANTENNA DEVICES
    Publication number: 20120062230
    Abstract: Apparatus and method that includes amplifiers for transceiver antenna elements, and more specifically to power amplifying an RF (radio frequency) signal using a distributed power amplifier having electronic devices (such as field-effect transistors) that are thermally and/or mechanically connected to each one of a plurality of antenna elements (also called coil elements) to form a hybrid coil-amplifier (e.g., for use in a magnetic-resonance (MR) imaging or spectroscopy machine), and that is optionally adjusted from a remote location, optionally including remotely adjusting its gains, electrical resistances, inductances, and/or capacitances (which controls the magnitude, phase, frequency, spatial profile, and temporal profile of the RF signal)—and, in some embodiments, the components are compatible with, and function in, high fields (such as a magnetic field of up to and exceeding one tesla or even ten tesla or more and/or an electric field of many thousands of volts per meter).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: John Thomas Vaughan, JR., Charles A. Lemaire
  • Vehicle wheel face
    Patent number: D788671
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Joonas Vartola, Franz Von Holzhausen
  • Vehicle wheel face
    Patent number: D788672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: TESLA, INC.
    Inventors: Bernard Lee, Franz Von Holzhausen
  • Sun visor
    Patent number: D826812
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, Ivan Lampkin, Pascal Grappey
  • Steering wheel
    Patent number: D830925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, Ivan Lampkin, Pascal Grappey
  • Side console
    Patent number: D832766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, Ivan Lampkin, Pascal Grappey
  • Window latch
    Patent number: D844412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, Ivan Lampkin, Pascal Grappey
  • Door
    Patent number: D847715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, David Tadashi Imai, Randy Rodriguez
  • Panel
    Patent number: D849624
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, Ivan Lampkin, Pascal Grappey
  • Coupling
    Patent number: D859968
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack Raymond West
  • Storage container
    Patent number: D873204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Von Holzhausen, Ivan Lampkin, Pascal Grappey
  • Vehicle front diffusor
    Patent number: D899980
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz von Holzhausen, Bernard G. Lee
  • Vehicle rear diffuser
    Patent number: D900688
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz von Holzhausen, Bernard G. Lee
  • Front seat
    Patent number: D913710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventor: Julien Bilodeau
  • Back seats
    Patent number: D931637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventor: David Tadashi Imai
  • 5 spoke wheel
    Patent number: D962839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernard G. Lee
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