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Syracuse University

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.

Kornick Lindsay

James Henderson

Patrick T Mather

I-Hwa Lee

Joseph M Kornick

Donna Lynn Visioli

Raymond A Bourque

Daniel Young-Doo Chung

Diane McCauley Hahm

Richard M Estabrook

Jose Tirso Olivares-Cordoba

James P Kane, Jr

James M Henderson

David O Hanon

James H Eakes

Xiuling Xu

Kelly Burke

Shelby Buffington

Kevin Davis

This disclosure describes a high speed winch rewind adapter for quickly rewinding a loading strap. In one implementation, the adapter includes a body having a volume sized to at least partially surround an annular end of the winch. The annular end is coupled with a ratchet mechanism of the winch and having at least one hole for receiving a winch bar. A drive connector is positioned both within the volume of the body and external to the volume of the body, the drive connector external to the volume of the body having an external profile to receive a torque, and the drive connector within the volume of the body insertable into the annular end of the winch for alignment to the axis of rotation. A coupling mechanism synchronizes the drive connector to the annular end such that both the drive connector and the annular end rotate simultaneously.

High speed winch rewind adapter

An enzyme responsive shape memory polymer formed from a glassy, cross-linked shape memory polymer that incorporates ester bonds that are responsive to the present of an enzyme. PCL-based polyurethanes (featuring simple alternation of PCL diol and lysine-based diisocyanate) are degradable by Amano lipase PS. A non-degradable thermoplastic elastomer may be dual electrospun with a polycaprolactone based TPU with the fixing phase compressed so that the composite is ready for enzymatically triggered contraction. Alternatively, the elastomer may be a PCL copolymer-based polyurethane amorphous elastomer that is both degradable and elastomeric and put into compression so that upon enzymatic degradation of the elastomeric phase the scaffold expands.

Enzyme-responsive shape memory polymers

A three component system for repairing critically sized bone defects having a first shape memory polymer (SMP) component formed as a scaffold that fills the defects, a second SMP component formed as a restricting sleeve that stabilizes and supports osseointegration and osteoconduction, and a third SMP component formed as a two-dimensional cell culture substrate for engineering periosteal grafts.

Shape-memory-actuated materials for accelerated healing of orthopedic injuries

Substrates for cell culture and tissue engineering bioreactors consisting of polymers that change their shape over time under stimulation by temperature change, hydration, degradation, or other means. A method of controlling cell culture using a biodegradable shape memory polymer, wherein shape changes can transfer stresses, strains, or both to adherent or otherwise connected cells such that the mechanical stimulus impacts cell development and the resulting properties of tissues.

Active cell culture via shape memory

A polymeric film, multiple-compartment, pouch having an internal frangible seal for confining a fluid and related beverage container with a re-closable fitment for storing and delivering two different flavored liquids or the like. The frangible seal of the clear plastic pouch will burst when sustained squeezed thus allowing the flavors to swirl and mix within the pouch.

Multiple compartment pouch and beverage container with frangible seal

Multiple compartment pouch and beverage container with smooth curve frangible seal

A displacement sensing and guide apparatus for continuous sheet material wherein the edges of a moving sheet of material are sensed by electromechanical or other variable voltage or variable impedance sensing and feedback means and communicate electrically with an electrical switching system, either directly or through a balanced bridge circuit, to operate the switching system and to indicate and to correct a displacement of the sheet material from a predetermined position.

Displacement sensing and guide apparatus

Apparatus for forming a yarn package wherein the yarn package includes a plurality of axially stacked revolutions of yarn with each revolution formed to include a plurality of sinuous shaped wave patterns in each revolution, and wherein the sinuous pattern of adjacent revolutions are angularly offset relative to each other to form a yarn package having high porosity in the package to permit the ready flow of yarn treatment material therethrough. The yarn package forming apparatus includes a frame support means having a power driven turntable, with a pressure plate non-rotatably supported thereabove for vertical translating movement, and wherein the yarn package is formed between the rotatable turntable and the pressure plate. The yarn packaging apparatus is provided with a variable speed radially reciprocating yarn guide means for feeding the yarn through a radial slot in the pressure plate to the turntable for forming revolutions of yarn having the sinuous pattern, with each revolution having an adjusted length of yarn. The variable speed radially reciprocating means is provided with a programable speed adjustment mechanism which is operated at a number of independent speeds for a series of revolutions, with the sequence of rotational speed being repeated after a predetermined number of revolutions of the turntable. A yarn package is formed by threading a length of yarn through the yarn guide means and slot, engaging an end of the yarn with the rotary turntable and effecting rotation of the turntable to form the stacked revolutions of yarn which will in turn force the pressure plate upward as the yarn package is formed. An open mesh yarn bag is supported on the turntable with the bag being constructed of net material which will permit ready impregnation of a dye throughout the yarn package.

Apparatus for forming a yarn package

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Syracuse, NY, United States of America

James Henderson