The Boeing Company

Theboeing Company

Clifford G Cousins

Nathan D Hiller

Mitesh Patel

Sean M Casey

A method, apparatus, and system for charging an electrical storage system in a vehicle. The vehicle comprises a support frame, a propulsion, an electric storage system, an extendable structure, and a power management unit. The propulsion system, the electrical storage system, and the power management unit are physically coupled to the support frame. The electrical storage system supplies the electrical energy to the propulsion system. The group of thermoelectric modules physically is physically coupled to the extendable structure and generates a current in response to a heat being transferred through the group of modules. The power management unit is electrically coupled to the electrical storage system and the group of thermal thermoelectric modules and controls storing the electrical energy in the electrical storage system using the current from the group of thermoelectric modules and supplying the electrical energy to the propulsion system.

Energy harvesting micro air vehicle

A selectable volume precision liquid dispenser apparatus and method of use. The dispenser apparatus includes a graduated, segmented elastic body with an interior space having different regions corresponding to different volumes where different liquid containing chambers are separated by one-way valves. Pressure applied by a user to one of the different chambers causes the dispensing of a precise amount of liquid through an inner conducting tube having openings to receive liquid in each of the different regions, and an outlet for dispensed the liquid. Release of the pressure allows the elastic body to return towards its original (resting) shape and draw liquid from a reservoir into the previously dispensed region in preparation for the next dispensing operation.

Selectable volume precision liquid dispenser

According to an embodiment, a method includes detecting, at a computing device, a sustained repetitive actuation of an input device operatively connected to the computing device, the sustained repetitive actuation being above a first predetermined threshold period of time and magnitude, the input device being associated with a cursor on a display screen of one or more output devices in a first condition and operatively connected to the computing device, and activating one or more cursor enhancement effects associated with the one or more output devices into a second condition, wherein at least one property of the one or more cursor enhancement effects is based on at least one attribute of the detected sustained repetitive actuation.

Cursor enhancement effects

A system for detecting vehicle load anomalies during ground travel includes at least one inertial sensor sensing a pitch or a roll of a vehicle and outputting at least one of a pitch or a roll value; a computing device having a processor and a memory and an input coupled to an input and monitoring module, where said input and monitoring module receives one of the pitch or roll values output by the at least one inertial sensor, and said computing system further having a measuring module measuring an oscillation based on one of the output pitch or roll values and calculating an adjusted center of gravity value based on a comparison between an expected oscillation and the measured oscillation; said computing device having an output to an alert module that outputs an alert signal through said output if the adjusted center of gravity is outside of a predetermined threshold.

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Cypress, CA, United States of America

Clifford G Cousins