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Bell Communications Research, Inc.

Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Building Materials Investment Corporation

Douglas S Beck

Gregory M Fisher

Sary Tauv

Sudhir B Railkar

Adem Chich

Donald E Gillespie

Craig Loren Schafer

Lei-Lei C Wang

Patrick Keenan White

Timothy Marc Weinrich

Steven Eric Valin

Lei Lei Wang

Albert L Chan

Jeffrey R Evans

Railkar Sudhir

A rotary electrical machine comprises: a mechanical motor/generator assembly, and optional electronics. The mechanical motor/generator assembly comprises: a core assembly, and an armature assembly. The core assembly comprises two magnet assemblies, which are positioned to define an air gap therebetween and produce time invariant magnetic fields in the air gap. The armature assembly comprises: an armature, and one or more conductors that are mounted to the armature and positioned in the air gap. Either the core assembly or the armature assembly may be mounted to a rotating element, while the other is mounted to a stationary element. During operation as a motor, electrical current flows in alternating directions in the one or more conductors, to produce torque on the armature and rotating element. During operation as a generator, electrical current is produced in the one or more conductors when torque is applied to the rotating element and the armature.

Rotary electrical machine using time-invariant magnetic fields

A roofing system includes battens and hangers for installing slate roofing shingles on a roof. Electrical conductors and other electronics are incorporated into the battens and the battens are connected together to form an electrical transmission grid beneath the shingles. Solar panels are installed in place of slate shingles in some locations on the roof and are configured to match or complement the surrounding slate shingles. Each solar panel includes a connector that connects the solar panel to the electrical transmission grid. The grid thus collects the electrical energy generated by all of the solar panels and delivers it for storage or use in a home. Microinverters may be coupled to smaller groups of the solar panels for converting their DC voltage to AC voltage and the outputs of the microinverters connected to a remote location for use or storage.

Slate style roofing system with integrated solar panels

A refrigeration system/cycle includes two or more refrigeration stages, in which one or more of the warmer stages provide(s) cooling to partially compensate for heat leakage that would otherwise leak to the colder stage(s). The refrigeration system includes a single heat sink or multiple heat sinks. The refrigeration cycle can include a single cooling load or multiple cooling loads. The refrigeration system can be a cryogenic refrigeration cycle. The flow of working fluid can be DC (direct-current, continuous and uni-directional) or AC (alternating-current and oscillating). The refrigeration system can include Double-Cycle cooling action. The refrigeration system can include one (or more) thermal storage unit(s) (TSUs).

Refrigeration system which compensates for heat leakage

The thermal management system includes: one or more heat acceptors which remove heat from one or more warm temperature heat sources; one or more absorption heat pumps, which use the heat removed from the warm temperature heat sources to generate either refrigeration or heating; a transfer system, such as a generator pumped liquid loop, for moving heat from the warm temperature heat sources to the absorption heat pumps; a transfer system, such as an absorber pumped liquid loop, for directing heat from the absorption heat pumps to one or more heat sink(s) at one or more temperatures if the absorption heat pumps are generating refrigeration; a transfer system, such as an evaporator pumped liquid loop, for directing heat from one or more cool temperature heat sources, at one or more temperatures, to the absorption heat pump(s) if the absorption heat pump(s) are operating generating heating; a transfer system, such as an evaporator pumped liquid loop, for directing heat from one or more cooling loads to the absorption heat pumps if the absorption heat pumps are generating refrigeration; and a transfer system, such as an absorber pumped liquid loop, for directing heat from the absorption heat pumps to one or more heating loads if the absorption heat pumps are generating heating.

Thermal management system using an absorption heat pump

The valve includes a supply portion, a delivery portion and an intermediate fluid chamber; a poppet member is positioned within the fluid chamber and is adapted to move within the chamber, the poppet including a conical seating surface and a rim portion, the rim portion having openings therethrough into the open interior of the poppet, allowing for forward fluid flow through the poppet. A delivery poppet seat and a supply poppet seat are defined at opposite ends of the fluid chamber. The delivery poppet seat is configured so that when the rim portion of the poppet contacts the delivery seat, fluid flow in the forward direction is permitted. The supply poppet seat is configured such that when the conical seating surface of the poppet member contacts the supply poppet seat, backflow through the valve is substantially prevented.

One-way valve with poppet member

A free piston pump has a pump housing defining a chamber, and a free piston located within the chamber. The free piston defines one (or more) pumping chamber(s). Each pumping chamber receives fluid from one (or more) inlet port(s) and delivers fluid to one (or more) outlet port(s). The pump has an electromagnetic drive system for moving the free piston within the chamber. Check valves or porting can be used to admit fluid into the pumping chamber(s) and release fluid from the pumping chamber(s). The pump can use three types of bearings and two types of seals. The pump has small heat leakage to the fluid being pumped. The pump is insensitive to cavitation, and has the potential for long-life. The pump has low leakage to the ambient environment.

Free piston pump

A service control processor includes a plurality of service feature processors each corresponding to selected telephone service, and a plurality of call processing records, each corresponding to a customer of a service provider. The customer call processing records specify services subscribed to by the caller. A feature manager processor manages call processing and the implementation and execution of services by managing the individual service feature processors. In an alternative embodiment, multiple feature manager processors are included, and a trigger manager selects between them in response to call processing triggers.

System and method for managing feature interaction of telephone services

A system for interfacing a service activation controller and a service management system allows a remote system to generate, update and delete call processing records and to create, update and delete tables. A provisioning message with one or more requests is sent to the service management system to process each request in the message, which identifies a unique logic template and one or more data templates and includes customized call variables data for inserting into a service record created from the template or updating an already created record. The resulting service record is activated by inputting the request to an integrated service point.

Method and apparatus for provisioning customized telecommunications

A system and method for creating a call processing record that receives a provisioning request including call data, a logic template identifier, and one or more data template identifiers. The logic template and the data templates are identified based on the logic template identifier and the data template identifiers. The templates are accessed and the call data is inserted into call variables in the templates to create a call processing record with multiple blocks.

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Gig Harbor, WA, United States of America

Douglas S Beck