The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Zenigata LLC

Corning Incorporated

Novo Nordisk A/s

Modern Electron, Inc.

Gregory A Kirkos

Steven A Rodriguez

Joseph N Kennelly Ullman

Dainia Edwards

Christopher B Harrison

Jonathan Jay Bernstein

Alga Lloyd Nothern, Iii

Eric W Healy

Marc Steven Weinberg

Tommy W Lee

Donald C Fyler

Mark Drela

Mathew Varghese

Richard T Martorana

Sean George

Jamie M Anderson

Brent Appleby

William W McFarland, Jr

Edward Bergmann

Seth Kessler

Steven Jacobson

Simon Mark Spearing

Marc Waelti

Fran J Rogomentich

Carsten Schau Andersen

William P Taylor

Jeffrey T Borenstein

Max Nathan Mankin

Nikolaj Eusebius Jakobsen

Anthony S Kourepenis

Anthony Petrovich

Robert S DiMatteo

Gordon M Shedd

Carlos Horacio Mastrangelo

Richard D Elliott

Jakob Oest Wielandt

Stephen E Clark

ChuanChe Wang

Jason M Parker

John J Lorr

Thomas David Kudrle

Matthew William Haave

Blake Matsuzaki

Dave Szakelyhidi

James Ching-Ming Hsiao

Mirela Gabriela Bancu

Daniel Kraemer

David A Degtiarov

Alexander J Pearse

Levi D Rodriguez

Ad De Pijper

Alga Lloyd Nothern Iii

Eric N Healy

Fran Rogomentich

There is provided an electronically controlled, breath actuated vaporization device for generating vaporized material for inhalation by a user. The vaporization device includes a vaporization chamber for accommodating material to be vaporized and a mesh heater or other heater supported upstream of the vaporization chamber which is operable to heat air that passes through the mesh heater or other heater during an inhalation event. A closed loop control scheme may be employed to control heat generated by the heater to maintain a temperature of the air delivered to the vaporization chamber at or within a predetermined tolerance of a desired vaporization temperature for at least a majority of a duration of the inhalation event.

Vapor delivery systems and methods

Various disclosed embodiments include thermionic energy converters with a thermal concentrating hot shell and emitters for thermionic energy converters. In some embodiments, an illustrative thermionic energy converter includes: an emitter electrode; a hot shell configured to concentrate heat flow toward the emitter electrode; a collector electrode; and a cold shell that is thermally isolated from the hot shell.

Thermionic energy converter with thermal concentrating hot shell

A dosage sensing module for or in a pen drug delivery device and comprising a power source unit, a processor unit and a dosage sensor unit with a first sensor part adapted to be fixed to a part not rotating during dose expelling and comprising a flexible printed circuit board sheet on which a pattern of individual electrical conductive sensor areas are arranged. The sensor unit further comprises a second sensor part adapted to be fixed to the piston rod to follow the rotation thereof during dose expelling. The second sensor part comprises individual structures that together with the conductive sensor areas are adapted to, upon relative rotational movement between the first and second sensor part, provide electrical signals to a processor unit indicative of the relative rotational position between the first and second sensor part.

Rotary dosage sensing module for and in a disposable pen drug delivery device

Presented herein are systems, methods and devices relating to miniature actuatable platform systems. According to one embodiment, the systems, methods, and devices relate to controllably actuated miniature platform assemblies including a miniature mirror.

Systems, methods and devices for actuating a moveable miniature platform

A tuning fork gyroscope design where at least one proof mass is supported above a substrate. At least one drive electrode is also supported above the substrate adjacent the proof mass. Typically, the proof mass and the drive electrode include interleaved electrode fingers. A sense plate or shield electrode on the substrate beneath the proof mass extends completely under the extent of the electrode fingers of proof mass.

Tuning fork gyroscopes, accelerometers, and other sensors with improved scale factor

An array of magnetically actuated MEMS mirror devices is provided having stationary magnets configured to provide strong magnetic fields in the plane of the mirrors without any magnets or magnet-system components in the plane of the mirrors. Also, a magnetically actuated mirror device is provided that includes an improved actuation coil configuration that provides greater torque during mirror actuation. In addition, a mechanism is provided to detect the angular deflection of a moveable mirror. Also, an improved process is provided for manufacturing MEMS mirror devices.

Magnetically actuated micro-electro-mechanical apparatus and method of manufacture

One embodiment is directed to a gimbal mechanism for a MEMS mirror device having folded flexure hinges. Another embodiment is directed to a gimbal mechanism having a frame with through-holes or recesses distributed thereabout to reduce weight of said frame. Other embodiments are directed to improved electrode structures for electrostatically actuated MEMS devices. Other embodiments are directed to methods for fabricating electrodes for electrostatically actuated MEMS devices. Other embodiments are directed to methods of fabricating through-wafer interconnect devices. Other embodiments are directed to MEMS mirror array packaging. Other embodiments are directed to electrostatically actuated MEMS devices having driver circuits integrated therewith. Other embodiments are directed to methods of patterning wafers with a plurality of through-holes. Other embodiments are directed to methods of forming moveable structures in MEMS devices. Other embodiments are directed to methods of depositing a thin film on the back of a MEMS device.

Electrostatically actuated micro-electro-mechanical devices and method of manufacture

A flyer assembly is adapted for launching with, transit in, and deployment from an artillery shell having a central void region extending along a ballistic shell axis. The flyer assembly includes a jettisonable shroud and a flyer. The shroud extends along a shroud axis, and is positionable within the central void region with the shroud axis substantially parallel to the shell axis. The flyer is adapted to withstand a launch acceleration force along a flyer axis when in a first state, and to effect aerodynamic flight when in a second state. When in the first state, the flyer is positionable within the shroud with the flyer axis parallel to the shroud axis and the shell axis. The flyer includes a body member disposed about the flyer axis, and a foldable wing assembly mounted to the body member. The wing assembly is configurable in a folded state characterized by a plurality of nested wing segments when the flyer is in the first state. The wing assembly is configurable in an unfolded state characterized by a substantially uninterrupted aerodynamic surface when the flyer is in the second state. The flyer assembly is adapted to be launched from a ballistic delivery system such as an artillery cannon, and can thus reach a target quickly, without expending system energy stored within the flyer. During launch, the flyer is coupled to the shroud so as to maintain a portion of the flyer in tension during an acceleration of the flyer along the flyer axis resulting from the launch. The flyer assembly is adapted to withstand the high g-load and high temperature environments of a cannon launch, and can tolerate a set-back g load of about 16,000 g.

Flyer assembly

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Gregory A Kirkos