Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a fuel injector nozzle where a nozzle seat and a nozzle insert are made using a metal injection molding process. The nozzle seat and the nozzle insert are assembled and bonded together while in their green state. The resulting nozzle assembly is then debinded and sintered to obtain the desired fuel injector nozzle.
Abstract:
An onboard fire suppression system for an automotive vehicle includes at least one reservoir containing a fire suppressant agent, and a distribution system for receiving and distributing fire suppressant agent expelled from the reservoir. A cold gas propellant, operatively associated with the reservoir, expels the fire suppressant agent from the reservoir.
Abstract:
An onboard fire suppression system for an automotive vehicle includes a reservoir structured for mounting to a vehicle. A primary component of a binary fire suppression agent is contained within the reservoir. A secondary component of the binary fire suppression agent is contained within a secondary reservoir or component delivery system which is activated by a flow of the primary component such that the primary component and the secondary component will be combined before being discharged from a series of nozzles.
Abstract:
An onboard fire suppression system for an automotive vehicle has a composite reservoir containing a fire suppressant agent. The reservoir includes a pressure vessel having a fiber-reinforced wall and a dynamic sealing liner positioned within said pressure vessel. The sealing liner is sufficiently deformable in response to fluid pressure produced by a propellant within said reservoir such that a portion of said sealing liner will be extruded into sealing engagement with the reservoir wall in the event that a pressure-formed discontinuity opens in the wall.
Abstract:
An onboard fire suppression system has a distribution network including porous, pressure-responsive nozzles which deliver fire suppression agent in a uniform pattern, without the need for drilling or other machining of nozzle orifices.
Abstract:
An assembly for mounting an imaging device, such as a camera, is provided. The assembly may include a housing and an imaging device mounted to the housing. The housing is constructed and arranged in a manner that absorbs and/or dampens a shock and/or vibration to minimize any resulting damage to the imaging device. The assembly may be constructed and arranged to meet MIL-S-901D (NAVY). In one embodiment, resilient and/or robust materials are incorporated into the mounting assembly.
Abstract:
Apparatuses, products, devices and methods of manufacture consistent with the invention include optically readable media with at least one mechanism, chemical, agent, and/or process for limiting the time period that at least a portion of encoded information can be read and/or accessed by an optical beam and/or reader capable of reading the encoded information.
Abstract:
The present invention provides methods for diagnosing mental disorders. The invention also provides methods of identifying modulators of mental disorders as well as methods of using these modulators to treat patients suffering from mental disorders.
Abstract:
Fuel supplied to a rotary fluid trap is centrifugally accelerated within a first cavity adjacent a first side of a rotor, and is then directed though a plurality of first passages extending through the rotor between and proximate to the blades, and shaped so as to at least partially conform to the shape of the blades. Second passages extend within the blades from the first passages and terminate within associated cavities proximate to the tips of the blades. Relatively cooler fuel in the first passages is thermosiphon exchanged for relatively hotter fuel in the second passages so as to cool the blades. The heated fuel flows into a second cavity adjacent to a second side of the rotor and is discharged from the rotating frame of reference directly into the combustion chamber through a second rotary fluid trap. A separate fuel distribution circuit is used for starting and warm-up.