Exemplary embodiments provide precision resistive composite members and methods for manufacturing and using them. The resistive composite member can have controllable dimensions, geometric shapes, mechanical properties and resistance values. The resistive composite member can be used for high-performance sensors or instrument probes that require, for example, high contact pressure, ultra-high frequency, and/or enable state-of-the-art digital signal transmission, characterization, or measurement. The resistive composite member can include one or more “twisted-fiber-tow” or one or more arrays of “twisted-fiber-tow” contained in a suitable non-metallic or essentially non-metallic binder material. The “twisted-fiber-tow” can further include a number of fibers that are twisted individually and/or in bundles in order to control the mechanical properties and fine-tune the resistance of the resistive composite member and thus to customize the high-performance instrument probes.
Armament With Wireless Charging Apparatus And Methodology
Disclosed herein is an integrated system armament capable of receiving an inductive charge, the integrated system armament comprising at least one induction energy receiving unit and at least one electrical conductor; wherein the at least one electrical conductor is of an advanced composite material with the advanced composite material having an electrical power management region, an electrical power management sub-region, an advanced composite material forming an electrical power management micro domain, or combinations thereof; and further wherein at least one of the advanced composite material forming electrical conductor(s) further comprises a thermal power management component having a thermal power management region, a thermal power management sub-region, a thermal power management micro domain, or combinations thereof; which in combination provides the integrated system armament. Further disclosed is a method of wirelessly charging an integrated system armament capable of receiving an inductive charge.
Disclosed herein is an integrated system charging apparatus comprising a power source, an induction energy transmitting unit, and an electrical conductor; wherein, the power source, the induction energy transmitting unit, and the electrical conductor are electrically connected with each other; and wherein at least one of the electrical conductor, and the induction energy transmitting unit, further comprises an advanced composite material.
Joseph A. Swift - Dolgeville NY, US Chad Edward Miller - Florence MT, US
International Classification:
F41G 11/00
Abstract:
The present invention is an article of manufacture comprised of advanced composites having structural, electrical, and thermal characteristics. More specifically, it is an interconnection system that comprises at least one advanced composite material with controlled mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. When employed in specific configurations and combinations, the subject invention is particularly suited for advanced armaments systems
Apparatus Having Management Of Electrical Power Capacity Regions And Management Of Thermal Capacity Regions
Joseph A. Swift - Dolgeville NY, US Chad Edward Miller - Florence MT, US
International Classification:
H05K 1/02
Abstract:
Provided herein is an apparatus having management of electrical power capacity regions and management of thermal capacity regions including a substrate member region having a length, a width, a thickness, and a surface area. The substrate member region may include a host binder material consisting of a polymer, a thermal plastic polymer, a thermo setting polymer, an intrinsically conductive polymer, an elastomer, a ceramic, a glass, a cement, a metal, a synthetic metal, combinations and mixtures of the above and the like, at least one conductive region for management of electrical power capacity and at least one conductive region for management of thermal capacity and at least one non-conductive regions. At least one of the regions for management of electrical power capacity and, optionally, at least one of the regions for management of thermal capacity as well as non-conductive regions may include an exposed surface for contact with another surface of a functional device.