Vincent P. LaBella - Cohoes NY, US Paul Thibado - Fayetteville AR, US
Assignee:
H-ITT, LLC - Cocoa FL
International Classification:
H04H 1/00
US Classification:
370312, 370313, 370379, 370476
Abstract:
A response monitoring apparatus using a remote including an electrical circuit including a user activated input, a transmitter, and a receiver, where the electrical circuit is adapted to detect operation of the user activated input and temporarily activates the receiver. A validation and error checking system ensures valid transmissions occurring in both wireless and wired communications. The validation and error checking system retrieves data from the remote memory to create transmission data groups. The validation and error checking system calculates a checksum value for the transmission data groups and creates a checksum data group that includes the checksum. The validation and error checking system transmits the data and ensures that the data is properly sent. The tests to determine valid transmission include checking particular bits of the transmitted data, calculating a checksum and comparing it to the transmitted checksum, and transmitting two or more data packets and comparing the values of the packets.
Method, Apparatus And Article Of Manufacture For Identifying, Evaluating And Particularizing Automated Response System Performance
Paul Thibado - Fayetteville AR, US Vincent LaBela - Fayetteville AR, US Daniel Bullock - Fayetteville AR, US
International Classification:
G09B003/00 G09B007/00
US Classification:
434/353000
Abstract:
A computer based method, apparatus and article of manufacture for identifying and grading a responding individual's performance when indicators of said performance are included within a personal response system generated file structure. The invention as practiced in its preferred embodiment enhances the art and addresses limitations of contemporary automated response systems by presenting a response stimulus to a plurality of individuals, eliciting a recordable response to said stimulus from such individuals, digitally recording the elicited response from each individual comprising said plurality of individuals, attributing a recorded response to each individual comprising said plurality and grading each individual's attributed response performance.
Tool And Method For In Situ Vapor Phase Deposition Source Material Reloading And Maintenance
Paul M. Thibado - Fayetteville AR Vincent P. LaBella - Fayetteville AR Daniel W. Bullock - Fayetteville AR
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas - Little Rock AR
International Classification:
C23C 1600
US Classification:
118726, 414217, 414939
Abstract:
A tool and method for reloading source materials in a vapor phase deposition (VPD) environment is disclosed. The tool and method does not require the venting of the VPD environment in order to perform its functions. The tool may reload source material into effusion cells or electron beam cells of a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) machine without venting the growth chamber.
Device For Ambient Thermal And Vibration Energy Harvesting
- Fayetteville AR, US Paul Thibado - Fayetteville AR, US
International Classification:
H02J 50/00 H02N 3/00
Abstract:
An integrated circuit on a chip may include a plurality of capacitors that are connected in series and generate an AC noise signal. A selected bandwidth of the AC noise signal transmits through the series of capacitors as a first AC power signal. Respective rectifiers are positioned for receiving a positive cycle of the first AC power signal and a negative cycle of the first AC power signal. Output terminals are connected to the respective rectifiers and configured for connection to an off chip circuit. The capacitors may be fixed or variable gap capacitors.
Energy Harvesting Devices And Sensors, And Methods Of Making And Use Thereof
- Little Rock AR, US Paul Thibado - Fayetteville AR, US
International Classification:
H02N 2/18 H01L 41/113 H01M 10/052
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are energy harvesting devices and sensors, and methods of making and use thereof. The energy harvesting devices can comprise a membrane disposed on a substrate, wherein the membrane comprises a two-dimensional (2D) material and one or more ripples; and a component electrically, magnetically, electromagnetically, electrostatic/capacitively, piezoelectrically, magnetostrictively and/or mechanically coupled to the membrane and/or the substrate, such that the component is configured to harvest energy from the membrane. The sensors can comprise a membrane disposed on a substrate, wherein the membrane comprises a two-dimensional material one or more ripples; and a component electrically, magnetically, electromagnetically, electrostatic/capacitively, piezoelectrically, magnetostrictively and/or mechanically coupled to the membrane and/or the substrate, such that the component is configured to detect a signal from the membrane.