General Electric Company

Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.v.

Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC

Scott Michael Miller

Andrew Arthur Paul Burns

Donald Joseph Buckley

David Gilles Gascoyne

Huabing Zheng

Gary William Yeager

William Thomas Carter

Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr

Kevin George Harding

Eugene Pauling Boden

Eric James Pressman

Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov

Slawomir Rubinsztajn

Eugene George Olczak

Kenneth Paul Zarnoch

Wendy Wenling Lin

Parag Prakash Kulkarni

Reginald Donovan Smith

Anthony Yu-Chung Ku

Jason Harris Karp

Arvind Rangarajan

Dennis Joseph Coyle

Anurag Gupta

Brian Michael Davis

Chad Yates

Kenneth Roger Conway

Justin John Gambone, Jr

Prameela Susarla

Harish Radhakrishna Acharya

Cathryn Ellen Olsen

Evelina Roxana Loghin

Masako Yamada

Thierry Pascal Maeder

Anton Beletskii

Yosang Yoon

Kathryn Amanda Misner

William Cook Livingood, Iii

Terry Lee Saunders

Juan Alberto Rivas Cardona

Nitin Garg

Hannah Rice James

Laura Liou

Thierry Maeder

A method of making a master cure tool for applying a texture to an aerodynamic surface includes the steps of: providing a foil which is metallic and has a textured surface; applying the foil to a forming surface of a rigid forming tool which is compound curved, and plastically deforming the foil to conform to the forming surface, so as to define a foil layer; annealing the foil layer using heat or a combination of heat and pressure; and bonding the foil layer to a support body, thereby defining the master cure tool.

Method of forming a cure tool and method of forming a textured surface using a cure tool

An additive manufacturing system includes a laser device, a build plate, a first scanning device, and an alignment system. The laser device is configured to generate a laser beam. The build plate has a position relative to the laser device. The first scanning device is configured to selectively direct the laser beam across the build plate. The laser beam generates a melt pool on the build plate. The alignment system includes a fiducial marks projector configured to project a plurality of fiducial marks across the build plate. Each fiducial mark has a location on the build plate. The alignment system also includes an optical detector configured to detect the location of each of the fiducial marks on the build plate. The alignment system is configured to detect the position of the build plate relative to the laser device.

Systems and methods for additive manufacturing in-build assessment and correction of laser pointing accuracy

Provided herein are methods and systems for rapid testing of films used in the manufacture of bioprocess bags. The methods described herein allow for determination of resistance to flexural fatigue while mimicking actual conditions in bioprocesses such as flexion and subsequent fatigue and failure of a bioprocess bag made of a film when it is placed on a rocking platform.

Method for testing of flexural fatigue resistance and associated system thereof

The present invention provides an insulated fluid conduit useful in facilities in which a hot fluid susceptible to deleterious phase changes in response to heat loss to a cold environment is transported. Such conduits may be particularly well suited to improve thermal control in subsea hydrocarbon production operations in which hot production fluids may undergo deleterious phase changes as a result of heat loss to the cold subsea environment. The fluid conduit includes an insulating material containing a silicone rubber and a phase change material such as octadecane. One or more barrier layers inhibit migration of the phase change material from the insulation layer and into the environment. In one or more embodiments, the phase change material is present as a microencapsulated phase change material.

Insulated fluid conduit

A carrier for growing stem cells is provided, the carrier comprises a substrate comprising one or more outer surfaces; and a hydrophilic, water soluble coating material disposed and dried on one or more of the outer surfaces. The carrier comprises one or more structured indentations on one or more of the outer surfaces, wherein the carrier has a length at least about 0.2 mm, a width at least about 0.2 mm, and a height in a range from about 0.05 mm to 1.2 mm and each of the structured indentations has a major axis in a range from about 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm, a minor axis in a range from about 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm and a depth in a range from about 0.025 mm to about 0.5 mm. A method of culturing stem cells and stromal cells using the same carrier are also provided.

Cell carriers and methods for culturing cells

The present invention provides an insulated fluid conduit useful in facilities in which a hot fluid susceptible to one or more deleterious phase changes in response to heat loss to a cold environment is transported. Such conduits may be particularly well suited to improve thermal control in subsea hydrocarbon production operations. The fluid conduit includes an inner first insulating layer containing a first polymer matrix, and a first phase change material undergoing a phase change at T. The fluid conduit includes an outer second insulating layer containing a second polymer matrix, and a second phase change material undergoing a phase change at T, wherein Tis greater than T. One or more barrier layers inhibit migration of the phase change material from the insulation layers and into the environment. In one or more embodiments, the phase change material is present as a microencapsulated phase change material.

A carrier for expansion of induced pluripotent stem cells is provided, wherein the carrier comprises a substrate comprising one or more outer surfaces, wherein the one or more outer surfaces are modified with gas plasma treatment, and one or more structured indentations on one or more of the outer surfaces. The carrier has a length at least about 0.2 mm, a width at least about 0.2 mm, and a height in a range from about 0.05 mm to 1.2 mm and each of the structured indentations has a major axis in a range from about 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm, a minor axis in a range from about 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm and a depth in a range from about 0.025 mm to about 0.5 mm. A method of making the carrier, and culturing induced pluripotent stem cells using the same carrier are also provided.

Cell carrier, associated methods for making cell carrier and culturing cells using the same

A method of culturing adherent cells is provided, wherein the method comprises providing a carrier for growing the cells, comprising one or more surfaces; and one or more relief features/indentations are present on one or more of the surfaces, wherein the carrier has a length at least about 0.2 mm, a width at least about 0.2 mm, and a height in a range from about 0.012 mm to 0.5 mm; and wherein each of the relief features/indentations has a height above the surfaces in a range from about 2 to 200 &#x3bc;m, and width in a range from about 20 to 200 &#x3bc;m; seeding the cells on the carriers; and growing the cells on the carrier.

Cell carrier, methods of making and use

A syngas cleanup section includes a water-gas shift reactor, a first operation unit and a second operation unit. The first operation unit includes a high permeance membrane with H/COselectivity in flow communication with the water-gas shift reactor to provide a H-rich permeate stream and an H-poor retentate stream. The second operation unit recovers Hand CO from the retentate stream to produce a single, CO-rich product stream, the entire content of which has a minimum pressure of at least about 10.0 bar. In one embodiment, the second operation unit includes a membrane with Knudsen selectivity for permeating H, CO and CO. In this embodiment, the permeate streams are combined to produce a Hand CO-rich fuel stream used by a combined cycle power generation unit to produce electricity, and the retentate stream is sent to a catalytic oxidation unit to produce the CO-rich product stream. In another embodiment, the second operation unit is the catalytic oxidation unit.

Syngas cleanup section with carbon capture and hydrogen-selective membrane

A fluid dynamic structure includes a surface and a microstructure mounted on the surface. The microstructure is defined by a plurality of peaks and valleys (i.e., riblets) and includes a transition region in which each peak and valley changes from a first profile to a second profile along a chord length of the structure. The peaks and/or valleys may have a variable dimension along the length of the microstructure. The peaks and valleys can be non-linear along the chord length and have a smooth transition from the first profile to the second profile. The different profiles of the microstructure are optimized to reduce noise generated by turbulent fluid flow across the structure.

Microstructures for reducing noise of a fluid dynamic structure

In one aspect, the present invention provides a curable composition useful in the preparation of a gas separation membrane. The curable composition comprises a polyvinyl alcohol; an aliphatic polyamine; a polyglycidyl ether; and a salt of a Cto Cheterocyclic amino acid. In another aspect the present invention provides a composition comprising a crosslinked polyvinyl alcohol comprising structural units derived from a polyglycidyl ether, a polyamine and the salt of a Cto Cheterocyclic amino acid. The compositions are useful in the preparation of gas separation membranes in which the Cto Cheterocyclic amino acid in the form of its salt functions as a mobile carrier of carbon dioxide.

Membranes comprising amino acid mobile carriers

In one embodiment a film can comprises a surface comprising a plurality of prism structures. Each prism structure has a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to &#xb1;20% of an average pitch of the prism structures. The plurality of prism structures can have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous. In one embodiment, a method for making a film can comprise forming a plurality of prism structures on a surface. The plurality of prism structures can have a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to &#xb1;20% of an average pitch of the prism structures, and wherein the plurality of prism structures have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous.

Film, backlight displays, and methods for making the same

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