University of Houston System

Unbound Technologies Inc.

Chase K McMichael

Wei-Kan Chu

Ki-Bui Ma

Quark Yung-Sung Chen

Mark Alan Lamb

Ignatius S Tsong

Rodger Sheldon Cooley

Harold Zule Xia

Disclosed is a system and method for a stated network portal that is adaptable to a wide variety of network applications, such as the Internet. The invention encompasses a system and method for dynamically adjusting portal views accessed by the user, according to the state of the system, as defined through the use of a rules database. The rules database is adjustable and customizable by the user, so as to provide for the automatic generation of output to the user which is intelligent to the data which the user requires. The rules database also accommodates time-sensitive rules, so that certain rules within the database are operable only under certain times or operate perpetually as the system operates.

Stated network portal system and method

Disclosed are devices for influencing and/or controlling relative motion between members, such as vibration damping or absorbing devices, clutches and brakes. The devices comprise a magnet on one member and a field cooled superconductor on the other member. The devices utilize the interaction of the magnetic field of the magnet as it moves through the pinned flux in the superconductor to either influence or control relative motion.

Magnet-superconductor systems for controlling and influencing relative

Disclosed is a flywheel system for storing kinetic energy which utilizes a high temperature superconductor/magnet system for the flywheel bearings. The flywheel includes a first magnet, and having a ring magnet defining an opening. The levitation system includes a magnet for attractively interacting with first flywheel magnet, with a high temperature superconductor interposed between them, and further includes a magnet system for repulsively interacting with and partially inserted into the ring magnet.

Magnet-superconductor flywheel and levitation systems

An isolation system for isolating a first object from vibrations from a second object. Such vibrations will have three orthogonal components, one oriented along a line between the objects, and two oriented 90.degree. apart in a plane normal to that line. The system includes three superconductor/magnet stages, each stage designed to extinguish one of the orthogonal components.

Vibration-free levitated platform

A magnetic bearing having a rotatable member and a stationary member on one of which is mounted a superconductor while on the other is mounted a set of permanent magnets or electromagnets arranged as a quadrupole or multiple dipoles. The magnetic member, which is in the form of a dipole, a quadrupole, or other multiple dipole, such as an octopole, is positioned to enable the magnetic fields generated by the permanent magnets to interact with the superconducting material and to confine the shaft in all directions in the desired location. The bearing systems can be used as either a thrust bearing or as a journal bearing, or as both. Each dipole may be twinned to reduce magnetic field asymmetry and reduce energy dissipation upon rotation. The superconductor may be laminated, and/or additional magnets may be located outside the superconductor in order to increase the bearing stiffness and rigidity.

High temperature superconducting magnetic bearings

A superconductor-magnet system having high thrust and stability, with a method for increasing the thrust and stability of such a system, comprises a first magnet, a second magnet and a superconductor. The magnets are in motion relative to each other and the superconductor is in motion relative to one and stationary relative to the other magnet. High thrust and stability can be achieved by increasing the magnetic field of the magnet in motion relative to the superconductor. Also disclosed are magnetic thrust and journal bearings utilizing the above system.

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Chase K McMichael