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Moog provides solutions for both hydraulic and electric blade pitch control. Blade pitch control is the system which monitors and adjusts the inclination angle of the blades and thus controls the rotation speed of the blades. At lower wind speeds, the...
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Modern wind turbines require delivery of power and signals to and from the rotating blades by a reliable rotary union assembly. Moog Components Group, a sister operating group of the Moog Industrial Group, provides a line of wind power (WP) products that...
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Tom Bowker, CTO of Clean Energy Technologies, describes how their Axial Flux Permanent Magnet (AFPM) technology achieves better efficiencies in wind power generation and is able to produce more power at lower wind speeds due to coreless technology. Where...
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Imagine charging your cell phone or laptop simply by placing it on the desk or night table in your bedroom or running a flat screen television, a digital clock, and an internally-lit picture frame directly through your living room wall. From the Consumer...
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Ron Ferber, President of Powermat, talked with Engineering TV at CES 2009 about the Powermat system, which is designed to replace the need to access multiple electrical sockets with the flexibility and freedom of wireless power for real-time powering...
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Sixense's TrueMotion interface has some fascinating potential beyond being used as a gaming input device. In Part 3 of this interview, Jeff Bellinghausen, CTO and Chief Architect, demonstrates a CAD interface designed at the Sixense studios that utilizes...
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Part 2 of Engineering TV's interview with Jeff Bellinghausen at Sixense Entertainment shows the TrueMotion controller in action. Applications include sports such as baseball, football and soccer, a lightsaber demo, and first-person shooter interfaces...
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In Part 1 of this interview, Engineering TV visited Jeff Bellinghausen, CTO and Chief Architect, at the Sixense studios in Los Gatos, California. Jeff gives us a run-down of their TrueMotion control system. The TrueMotion 3D controller from Sixense is...
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A ferrofluid is a liquid which becomes strongly polarized in the presence of a magnetic field. It is a colloidal mixture comprising extremely small magnetic particles suspended in a liquid. Ferrofluids are composed of nanoscale ferromagnetic, or ferrimagnetic...
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At Carnegie Mellon University, Prof. McHenry's recent efforts have evolved from the study of carbon-coated magnetic nanocrystals produced by the Kratschmer-Huffman carbon arc method and fine particle magnetism in the same. This lead to studies of...
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Professor Michael McHenry's team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed nanocomposites for applications with high permeability requirements and with needs for large inductions at high temperatures. Specifically they have developed...
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At Carnegie Mellon University, The research interests of M. E. McHenry can be broadly categorized as involving the development of an understanding of the magnetic properties of materials. This includes interfacing theoretical and experimental studies...
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Students at Carnegie Mellon University have employed external magnetic fields to controllably position and orient a magnetic micro-robot. They demonstrated this approach in the 2007 and 2008 RoboCup Nanogram Demonstrations. Imagine a mechanical Pelé or...