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Nanomanipulation Coupled Nanospray Mass Spectrometry (NMS) (open access)

Nanomanipulation Coupled Nanospray Mass Spectrometry (NMS)

Patent relating to nanomanipulation coupled nanospray mass spectrometry (NMS).
Date: March 12, 2013
Creator: Verbeck, Guido F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Lipids in Vegetative Tissues of Plants (open access)

Engineering Lipids in Vegetative Tissues of Plants

Patent relating to engineering lipids in vegetative tissues of plants.
Date: January 28, 2010
Creator: Chapman, Kent D. & Anderson, Richard G. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods for Detection of Driving Conditions and Habits (open access)

Methods for Detection of Driving Conditions and Habits

Patent relating to methods for detection of driving conditions and habits.
Date: August 29, 2011
Creator: Dantu, Ram
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of Columnar Hydrogel Colloidal Crystals in Water-organic Solvent Mixture (open access)

Synthesis of Columnar Hydrogel Colloidal Crystals in Water-organic Solvent Mixture

Patent relating to the synthesis of columnar hydrogel colloidal crystals in a water-organic solvent mixture.
Date: September 21, 2006
Creator: Hu, Zhibing; Zhou, Jun; Cai, Tong; Tang, Shijun & Marquez, Manuel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method for Removing Contaminants on a Substrate (open access)

Method for Removing Contaminants on a Substrate

Patent relating to a method for removing contaminants on a substrate.
Date: November 21, 2002
Creator: Quevedo-Lopez, Manuel A.; Wallace, Robert M.; Bouanani, Mohamed El & Gnade, Bruce
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Process and Apparatus for Energy Storage and Release (open access)

Improved Process and Apparatus for Energy Storage and Release

Patent relating to an improved process and apparatus for energy storage and release.
Date: May 14, 2004
Creator: Imholt, Timothy; Allara, David L., 1937-; Gnade, Bruce & Roberts, James A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Process and Apparatus for Microwave Desorption of Elements of Species from Carbon Nanotubes (open access)

Process and Apparatus for Microwave Desorption of Elements of Species from Carbon Nanotubes

Patent relating to the process and apparatus for microwave desorption of elements or species from carbon nanotubes.
Date: January 23, 2004
Creator: Tour, James M.; Roberts, James A. & Imholt, Timothy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method and Apparatus for Remote Delivery and Manipulation of a Miniature Tool Adjacent a Work Piece in a Restricted Space (open access)

Method and Apparatus for Remote Delivery and Manipulation of a Miniature Tool Adjacent a Work Piece in a Restricted Space

An apparatus for remote delivery and manipulation of a miniature tool adjacent a work piece in a restricted space, includes a tool camer, a camage for manipulating the tool carrier relative to the work piece, a first actuator for operating the carnage, and an optional remote secondary operating actuator for operating the first actuator.
Date: August 10, 2004
Creator: Sale, Christopher H. & Kaltenbaugh, Daniel R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Video Toroid Cavity Imager (open access)

Video Toroid Cavity Imager

A video toroid cavity imager for in situ measurement of electrochemical properties of an electrolytic material sample includes a cylindrical toroid cavity resonator containing the sample and employs NMR and video imaging for providing high-resolution spectral and visual information of molecular characteristics of the sample on a real-time basis. A large magnetic field is applied to the sample under controlled temperature and pressure conditions to simultaneously provide NMR spectroscopy and video imaging capabilities for investigating electrochemical transformations of materials or the evolution of long-range molecular aggregation during cooling of hydrocarbon melts. The video toroid cavity imager includes a miniature commercial video camera with an adjustable lens, a modified compression coin cell imager with a fiat circular principal detector element, and a sample mounted on a transparent circular glass disk, and provides NMR information as well as a video image of a sample, such as a polymer film, with micrometer resolution.
Date: August 10, 2004
Creator: Gerald, Rex E., II; Sanchez, Jairo & Rathke, Jerome W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Concurrent materials and process selection in conceptual design (open access)

Concurrent materials and process selection in conceptual design

A method for concurrent selection of materials and a joining process based on product requirements using a knowledge-based, constraint satisfaction approach facilitates the product design and manufacturing process. Using a Windows-based computer video display and a data base of materials and their properties, the designer can ascertain the preferred composition of two parts based on various operating/environmental constraints such as load, temperature, lifetime, etc. Optimum joinder of the two parts may simultaneously be determined using a joining process data base based upon the selected composition of the components as well as the operating/environmental constraints.
Date: August 16, 2000
Creator: Kleban, Stephen D. & Knorovsky, Gerald A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermionic Converter Temperature Controller (open access)

Thermionic Converter Temperature Controller

A method and apparatus for controlling the temperature of a thermionic reactor over a wide range of operating power, including a thermionic reactor having a plurality of integral cesium reservoirs, a honeycomb material disposed about the reactor which has a plurality of separated cavities, a solid sheath disposed about the honeycomb material and having an opening therein communicating with the honeycomb material and cavities thereof, and a shell disposed about the sheath for creating a coolant annulus therewith so that the coolant in the annulus may fill the cavities and permit nucleate boiling during the operation of the reactor.
Date: August 23, 1999
Creator: Shaner,B. J.; Wolf, Joseph H. & Johnson, Robert G. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Portable Apparatus for the Measurement of Environmental Radon and Thoron (open access)

Portable Apparatus for the Measurement of Environmental Radon and Thoron

The radometer is a portable instrument for the measurement of the concentration of atmospheric radon/thoron in a test area. A constant velocity pump pulls the air from the outside at a constant flow rate. If the air is too moist, some or all of the sample is passed through a desiccant filter prior to encountering an electrostatic filter. The electrostatic filter prevents any charged particles from entering the sampling chamber. Once the sample has entered the chamber, the progeny of the decay of radon/thoron are collected on a detector and measured. The measured data is compiled by a computer and displayed.
Date: August 19, 1999
Creator: Negro, Vincent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method of making multilayered titanium ceramic composites (open access)

Method of making multilayered titanium ceramic composites

A method making a titanium ceramic composite involves forming a hot pressed powder body having a microstructure comprising at least one titanium metal or alloy layer and at least one ceramic particulate reinforced titanium metal or alloy layer and hot forging the hot pressed body follwed by hot rolling to substantially reduce a thickness dimension and substantially increase a lateral dimension thereof to form a composite plate or sheet that retains in the microstructure at least one titanium based layer and at least one ceramic reinforced titanium based layer in the thickness direction of the composite plate or sheet.
Date: August 25, 1998
Creator: Fisher, George T., II; Hansen; Jeffrey, S.; Oden; Laurance, L.; Turner et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attachment Apparatus (open access)

Attachment Apparatus

The present invention includes an attachment apparatus comprising a rotation limiting member adapted to be threaded onto a threaded member; and a preload nut adapted to be threaded onto the threaded member. The rotation limiting member comprises a plurality of pins; and the preload nut comprises plurality of slots, preferably wherein the plurality of pins and the plurality of slots are the same in number, which is preferably three. The plurality of pins of the rotation limiting member are filled into a corresponding plurality of slots of the preload nut to form a rotatable unit adapted to be threaded onto the threaded member. In use, the rotatable unit is threaded onto the threaded member. The present invention thus provides a unitized removable device for holes, including holes other than circular in shape, which have an established depth before an end of, or before an enlargement of the hole. The configuration of some exposed part of the device, or the head, is shaped and formed for its intended purpose, such as clamping, anchor points, eye bolts, stud anchor, and the like. The device allows for the installation, preloading and removal of all components of the device, as a unit, without damage …
Date: August 18, 1998
Creator: Morrison, Edward F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focused Ion beam source method and Apparatus (open access)

Focused Ion beam source method and Apparatus

A focused ion beam having a cross section of submicron diameter, a high ion current, and a narrow energy range is generated from a target comprised of particle source material by laser ablation. The method involves directing a laser beam having a cross section of critical diameter onto the target, producing a cloud of laser ablated particles having unique characteristics, and extracting and focusing a charged particle beam from the laser ablated cloud. The method is especially suited for producing focused ion beams for semiconductor device analysis and modification.
Date: August 17, 1998
Creator: Pellin, Michael J.; Lykke, Keith R. & Lill, Thorsten B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iron-Phosphate Ceramics for Solidification of Mixed Low-Level Waste (open access)

Iron-Phosphate Ceramics for Solidification of Mixed Low-Level Waste

A method of immobilizing mixed low-level waste is provided which uses low cost materials and has a relatively long hardening period. The method includes: forming a mixture of iron oxide powders having ratios, in mass %, of FeO: Fe{sub 2}O{sub 3}: Fe{sub 3}O{sub 4} equal to 25-40: 40-10: 35-50, or weighing a definite amount of magnitite powder. Metallurgical cinder can also be used as the source of iron oxides. A solution of the orthophosphoric acid, or a solution of the orthophosphoric acid and ferric oxide, is formed and a powder phase of low-level waste and the mixture of iron oxide powders or cinder (or magnetite powder) is also formed. The acid solution is mixed with the powder phase to form a slurry with the ratio of components (mass %) of waste: iron oxide powders or magnitite: acid solution = 30-60: 15-10: 55-30. The slurry is blended to form a homogeneous mixture which is cured at room temperature to form the final product.
Date: August 7, 1998
Creator: Aloy, Albert S.; Kovarskaya, Elena N.; Koltsova, Tatiana I.; Macheret, Yevgeny; Medvedev, Pavel G. & Todd, Terry
System: The UNT Digital Library
A method for synthesizing pollucite from chabazite and cesium chloride (open access)

A method for synthesizing pollucite from chabazite and cesium chloride

A method is described for immobilizing waste chlorides salts containing radionuclides and hazardous nuclear material for permanent disposal, and in particular, a method for immobilizing waste chloride salts containing cesium, in a synthetic form of pollucite. The method for synthesizing pollucite from chabazite and cesium chloride includes mixing dry, non-aqueous cesium chloride with chabazite and heating the mixture to a temperature greater than the melting temperature of the cesium chloride, or above about 700 C. The method further comprises significantly improving the rate of retention of cesium in ceramic products comprised of a salt-loaded zeolite by adding about 10% chabazite by weight to the salt-loaded zeolite prior to conversion at elevated temperatures and pressures to the ceramic composite.
Date: August 11, 1997
Creator: Pereira, Candido
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wire brush fastening device (open access)

Wire brush fastening device

A fastening device is provided which is a variation on the conventional nut and bolt. The bolt has a longitudinal axis and threading helically affixed thereon along the longitudinal axis. A nut having a bore extending therethrough is provided. The bore of the nut has a greater diameter than the diameter of the bolt so the bolt can extend through the bore. An array of wire bristles are affixed within the bore so as to form a brush. The wire bristles extend inwardly from the bore and are constructed and arranged of the correct size, length and stiffness to guide the bolt within the bore and to restrain the bolt within the bore as required. A variety of applications of the wire brush nut are disclosed, including a bolt capture device and a test rig apparatus.
Date: August 31, 1993
Creator: Meigs, R.A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gasket and snap ring installation tool (open access)

Gasket and snap ring installation tool

This invention is comprised of a tool for installing a gasket and a snap ring including a shaft, a first plate attached to the forward end of the shaft, a second plate slidably carried by the shaft, a spring disposed about the shaft between the first and second plates, and a sleeve that is free to slide over the shaft and engage the second plate. The first plate has a loading surface with a loading groove for receiving a snap ring and a shoulder for holding a gasket. A plurality of openings are formed through the first plate, communicating with the loading groove and approximately equally spaced about the groove. A plurality of rods are attached to the second plate, each rod slidable in one of the openings. In use, the loaded tool is inserted into a hollow pipe or pipe fitting having an internal flange and an internal seating groove, such that the gasket is positioned against the flange and the ring is in the approximate plane of the seating groove. The sleeve is pushed against the second plate, sliding the second plate towards the first plate, compressing the spring and sliding the rods forwards in the openings. The …
Date: August 23, 1993
Creator: Southerland, J. M., Sr. & Barringer, C.N., Sr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reflection mass spectrometry technique for monitoring and controlling composition during molecular beam epitaxy (open access)

Reflection mass spectrometry technique for monitoring and controlling composition during molecular beam epitaxy

This invention is comprised of a method for on-line accurate monitoring and precise control of molecular beam epitaxial growth of Groups III-III-V or Groups III-V-V layers in an advanced semiconductor device incorporates reflection mass spectrometry. The reflection mass spectrometry is responsive to intentional perturbations in molecular fluxes incident on a substrate by accurately measuring the molecular fluxes reflected from the substrate. The reflected flux is extremely sensitive to the state of the growing surface and the measurements obtained enable control of newly forming surfaces that are dynamically changing as a result of growth.
Date: August 15, 1990
Creator: Brennan, T. M.; Hammons, B. E. & Tsao, J. Y.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method for preparing homogeneous single crystal ternary III-V alloys (open access)

Method for preparing homogeneous single crystal ternary III-V alloys

A method for producing homogenous single crystal III--V ternary alloys of high crystal perfection using a floating crucible system in which the outer crucible holds a ternary alloy of the composition desired to be produced in the crystal and an inner floating crucible having a narrow, melt-passing channel in its bottom wall holds a small quantity of melt of a pseudo-binary liquidus composition which would freeze into the desired crystal composition. The alloy of the floating crucible is maintained at a predetermined lower temperature than the alloy of the outer crucible, and a single crystal of the desired homogeneous alloy is pulled out of the floating crucible melt, as melt from the outer crucible flows into a bottom channel of the floating crucible at a rate that corresponds to the rate of growth of the crystal.
Date: August 14, 1990
Creator: Ciszek, T. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A method of genetically engineering acidophilic, heterotrophic, bacteria by electroporation and conjugation (open access)

A method of genetically engineering acidophilic, heterotrophic, bacteria by electroporation and conjugation

A method of genetically manipulating an acidophilic bacteria is provided by two different procedures. Using electroporation, chimeric and broad-host range plasmids are introduced into Acidiphilium. Conjugation is also employed to introduce broad-host range plasmids into Acidiphilium at neutral pH.
Date: August 7, 1990
Creator: Roberto, F. F.; Glenn, A. W. & Ward, T. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ductile nickel-silicon alloy (open access)

Ductile nickel-silicon alloy

An improvement over prior compositions wherein the ductility of Ni-Si alloys are improved with minor alloying additions of hafnium or zirconium.
Date: August 6, 1990
Creator: Oliver, W. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ductile nickel-silicon alloy (open access)

Ductile nickel-silicon alloy

An improvement over prior compositions wherein the ductility of Ni-Si alloys are improved with minor alloying additions of hafnium or zirconium.
Date: August 6, 1990
Creator: Oliver, W. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library