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- Apparatus for Electrolytically Determining the Thickness of Metal Coatings
- Creator
- Herbert, William S., Francis, Howard T.
- Date
- 1948-12-28
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Methods for Producing Organic Nanocrystals
- Creator
- Myerson, Allan S., Lee, In Sung
- Date
- 2012-11-01, 2012-10-30
- Description
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Methods for producing small crystals on islands formed on specialized substrates by, inter alia, subjecting the substrate to a hydrophilic...
Show moreMethods for producing small crystals on islands formed on specialized substrates by, inter alia, subjecting the substrate to a hydrophilic SAMs solution for self-assembling hydrophilic SAMs on certain portions of the substrate surface and subjecting the substrate to a hydrophobic SAMs solution for self-assembling hydrophobic SAMs on certain other portions of the substrate surface.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
Primary US Patent Classification 430/324
International Patent Classification G03F 7/20
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- The Memory Steps
- Creator
- Kwon, Oh Keun
- Date
- 2012-05-01, 2012-05
- Description
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"The Memory Step"� is a public library combined with a community center. The project is located in an urban area that has lost much of its...
Show more"The Memory Step"� is a public library combined with a community center. The project is located in an urban area that has lost much of its character over time. Time has several important meanings that include tradition, history and discovery of unique characteristics - in other words, culture. Culture provides a city with a unique identity and as software, it provides city with diversity. Placing the project within this specific area will act as a catalyst to revitalize the cultural and social identity and regenerate the unique urban fabric. The project is based upon three principles : Identity, relationship, and Community.
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- Electromagnetic Transducer Head
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1962-09-11
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Magnetic Transducer Head with Single Record Winding and Plural Reproduce Windings
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 4/23/2009, 1969-09-23
- Description
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Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
- Title
- Relationships Among Twitter Conversation Networks, Language Use, and Congressional Voting
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- Hemphill, Libby, Otterbacher, Jahna, Shapiro, Matthew A.
- Date
- 2012-12-20, 2012
- Description
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As Twitter becomes a more common means for officials to communicate with their constituents, it becomes more important that we understand just...
Show moreAs Twitter becomes a more common means for officials to communicate with their constituents, it becomes more important that we understand just how that communication relates to other political activities. Using data from 411 members of Congress' Twitter activity during the summer of 2011, we examine relationships among the resulting conversation networks, language use, and political behavior. The social networks that result from their communications have surprisingly low density and high diameter, indicating a level of independence that is surprising for a group so tightly connected offline. Our findings also indicate that officials frequently use Twitter to advertise their political positions and to provide information but rarely to request political action from their constituents or to recognize the good work of others. Our analysis suggests strong relationships between anti-social behaviors indicated by the loosely connected network and low incidence of pro-social conversations and polarized or extreme Congressional voting records.
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- Image-based Indexing and Classification in Image Databases
- Creator
- Agam, Gad, Frieder, Ophir
- Date
- 2012-03-20, 2010-08-31
- Description
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The invention enables the digital management of large scale image databases, to efficiently classify and index image data independent of...
Show moreThe invention enables the digital management of large scale image databases, to efficiently classify and index image data independent of language. Complex processing requirements are required only on reduced and operably small subsets of the entire collection, thereby effectively scaling large document collections. Embodiments of the present invention provide image-based classification and retrieval of documents based on image recognition, e.g., signatures, logos, stamps, or word-spotting; in documents within real time for large datasets such as in the millions of documents.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Apparatus for Generating Generally Uniform Compression in High-Viscosity Fluids
- Creator
- Venerus, David C., Kompani, Mandana
- Date
- 2009-05-11, 1999-06-29
- Description
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An apparatus for generating generally uniform compression forces over a film of a relatively low-viscosity liquid by passing the low-viscosity...
Show moreAn apparatus for generating generally uniform compression forces over a film of a relatively low-viscosity liquid by passing the low-viscosity liquid through a porous plate, from an upstream face to a downstream face of the porous plate. The porous plate has a specified porosity and arrangement of the through holes or other pores that results in forming a uniform pressure through and uniform compression forces over a film of the low-viscosity liquid that is at or near the upstream face of the porous plate. The apparatus of this invention results in homogeneous deformation of a material, such as molten polymer, polymer solution, multiphase polymer systems, asphalts or foods.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Title
- Spraying Process
- Creator
- Bradstreet, Samuel W., Griffith, James S.
- Date
- 1956-09-18
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Method and Means for Energizing Magnetic Recorder Heads
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1944-06-13
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent
- Title
- Method and Apparatus for Detecting Collisions on and Controlling Access to a Transmission Channel
- Creator
- Campbell, Graham M., Xu, Wenxin
- Date
- 2009-05-14, 2001-09-18
- Description
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A method for controlling multiple access of a transmission channel wherein a plurality of different patterns are assigned to a plurality of...
Show moreA method for controlling multiple access of a transmission channel wherein a plurality of different patterns are assigned to a plurality of sending stations so that each sending station corresponds to a unique pattern, preferably a pattern represented by a Binomial coefficient. Each unique pattern is transmitted from a corresponding sending station to the transmission channel by way of a control minislot. Ternary feedback is received from the control minislot. A summation of different patterns within each control minislot are analyzed to detect whether a collision exists between the different patterns within each control minislot.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Title
- Method for the Preparation of Titanium Tetrachloride
- Creator
- Schossberger, Frederic V.
- Date
- 1958-10-21
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Apparatus and Method for In Situ Controlled Heat Processing of Hydrocarbonaceous Formations with a Controlled Parameter Line
- Creator
- Bridges, Jack E.
- Date
- 2009-05-08, 1985-02-12
- Description
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A system and method provide for preferential in situ heating of earth formations. A plurality of elongated conductive electrodes are emplaced...
Show moreA system and method provide for preferential in situ heating of earth formations. A plurality of elongated conductive electrodes are emplaced in earth formations in respective spaced rows bounding a particular volume of the earth formations and forming a transmission line, preferably a triplate line, extending in the direction of the electrodes with the particular volume of the earth formations providing a dielectric medium between respective rows of electrodes. Electromagnetic energy is supplied to the transmission line at a frequency at which the spacing between respective rows is less than about twice the skin depth at the frequency of the applied energy. Reactance means are disposed along respective electrodes to provide predetermined effective transmission line characteristics to develop a predetermined heating pattern in the earth formations. The reactance means may be reactances disposed discretely between sections of respective electrodes. The reactance means may also be disposed between respective electrodes and the earth formation, as by a dielectric coating. A heating pattern may be developed to heat hydrocarbon rich deposits preferentially.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Title
- Understanding Construction Workers’ Risk Decisions Using Cognitive Continuum Theory
- Creator
- Menches, Cindy L., Saxena, Jaya
- Date
- 2013-09-19, 2013-09-19
- Description
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The goal of the research presented in this article was to construct a theory about the influence of decision cues on intuitive and...
Show moreThe goal of the research presented in this article was to construct a theory about the influence of decision cues on intuitive and deliberative decision-making in high-hazard construction environments. Drawing from Cognitive Continuum Theory, the article specifies a framework for understanding why and how construction workers make decisions that lead to taking or avoiding physical risks when they encounter daily hazards. A secondary aim of the research was to construct a set of hypotheses about how specific decision cues influence whether a worker is more likely to engage their intuitive impulses or to use careful deliberation when responding to a hazard. These hypotheses are described in this article, and the efficacy of the hypotheses was evaluated using cross-tabulations and nonparametric measures of association. While most of the associations between decision cues and decision mode (i.e., intuition or deliberation) identified in this data set were generally modest, none of the associations were statistically zero, thus indicating that further research is warranted based on theoretical grounds. A rigorous program of theory testing is the next logical step to the research, and the article thus concludes with numerous suggestions for extending the research and testing the proposed hypotheses.
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- Hybrid Electric Conversion Kit for Rear-wheel Drive, All Wheel Drive, and Four Wheel Drive Vehicles
- Creator
- Rodriguez, Fernando, Lukic, Srdjan M., Wirasingha, Sanjaka G., Emadi, Ali
- Date
- 2012-03-20, 2011-09-06
- Description
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This invention relates to a parallel hybrid electric conversion kit for a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, a driveshaft and a...
Show moreThis invention relates to a parallel hybrid electric conversion kit for a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, a driveshaft and a transmission, such as, rear wheel drive vehicles, four-wheel drive vehicles, heavy duty multiple-driven-axle vehicles and/or all-wheel drive vehicles. The conversion kit includes a motor-generator, a torque coupler, a battery, a power electronics module and a controller. Suitable torque couplers include transfer cases and/or rear-through differentials. The conversion kit provides an aftermarket solution to increased performance, fuel economy and/or reduced emissions by modifying the drivetrain after the transmission. According to one embodiment of this invention, the control scheme of the installed conversion kit receives input signals from the engine and the motor-generator, but only sends control signals to the motor-generator, facilitating installation of the conversion kit.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Title
- Magnetic Transuducer Head
- Creator
- Wiegand, David E.
- Date
- 1958-10-07
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Method and Apparatus for Detecting and Sizing Microscopic Particles
- Creator
- Karuhn, Richard F., Davies, Reg, Clinch, John Michael
- Date
- 2009-04-30, 1973-06-12
- Description
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Improved accuracy of size measurement and size distribution of particles in a fluid have been obtained in an electrical zone sensing apparatus...
Show moreImproved accuracy of size measurement and size distribution of particles in a fluid have been obtained in an electrical zone sensing apparatus by a flow control director means which directs the fluid in a more streamlined, less turbulent flow through an aperture at which the particles are electrically sensed. Also, the particles were directed and guided to flow substantially parallel to longitudinal axis for the aperture. The preferred flow control detector means comprises a contoured orifice having a smooth tapered inlet wall blended at an intersection with a central cylindrical wall defining a tubular shaped aperture.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Conversion of Municipal Waste to Useful Oils
- Creator
- Stapp, Paul R.
- Date
- 2009-05-08, 1992-10-27
- Description
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The present invention is directed to a method for converting municipal waste containing plastics to a high quality synthetic crude oil which...
Show moreThe present invention is directed to a method for converting municipal waste containing plastics to a high quality synthetic crude oil which can be separated by fractionation into gasoline, diesel fuel and gas oils suitable as a feedstock to a catalytic cracker. The presence of cellulosic and proteinaceous waste materials in the municipal waste does not inhibit the process of the invention for converting the municipal waste into a synthetic crude oil. The process generally includes the steps of heating the municipal waste in a reaction gas, of a mixture of hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen or hydrogen at moderate temperatures and pressures.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Method for the Preparation of a Titanium Solution
- Creator
- Cammack, Rose Marie, Schossberger, Frederic V., Ticulka, Frank A.
- Date
- 1962-05-01
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent