Metis Design Corporation

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Scaled Power Corp.

Gregory A Thomas

Brian Lee Wardle

Seth S Kessler

Christopher T Dunn

Michael Borgen

Rory Colm Keogh

A multifunctional assembly having a resistive element a conductive element in electrical communication with the resistive element, the conductive element defining at least one of a plurality of multifunctional zones of the resistive element, wherein the conductive element is configured to direct a flow of electricity across at least one of the plurality of multifunctional zones of the resistive element in a preselected manner.

Multifunctional assemblies

A turbine generator uses a common bearing carrier to support a high-speed spool and a low-speed spool, thereby enabling a more axially compact turbine generator design. The high-speed spool includes a high-speed compressor assembly mechanically powered by a high-speed turbine, which receives power from a combustion chamber between the high-speed turbine and the high-speed compressor assembly. The low-speed spool includes a pre-combustion power turbine aerodynamically powered by the compressor assembly and upstream of the combustion chamber. The pre-combustion turbine mechanically powers an electrical generator, which includes coreless stators and a rotor assembly. The stators have a planar configuration to receive axial flux from magnets of the rotor assembly. Optionally, the low-speed spool may include a post-combustion turbine that is arranged downstream of the combustion chamber and that mechanically powers the electrical generator.

Gas turbine generator with a pre-combustion power turbine

Front face of a floor mat

A sun screen for selectively covering automobile windows movable between a stowed position exposing a window and a deployed position covering at least part of a window. The sun screen can be sized to fit a variety of window shapes, including trapezoidal or other non-rectangular shapes. The translucent screen is rolled on rollers mounted above the window. The screen includes a central rectangular portion sized to conform to the largest rectangle making up the window. Individual angled screens, having band-like shapes, are mounted as needed at the ends of the central portion on angled rollers. The lower edge of the central portion is secured to a transverse rod or tube with the lower edges of the angled screens secured to tubes in a telescoping relationship to the transverse rod ends. The outer ends of the tubes are guided in a track for movement in a generally vertical direction along the window edges. A pulley system driven by an electrical motor causes the rod and tube assembly to move vertically along the tracks to the desired deployment. The screen system may be returned to the stowed position by rotating the rollers, either under control of the electrical motor or by means of a torsion spring in the roller. Thus, the screen when fully deployed covers the entire window, leaving no distracting 'hot spots' of light entering along the edges or at corners.

Deployable sun screen for automobile windows

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Gregory A Thomas