Eureka 1996 Tom Shelley - Abstracts

Eureka 1996 Tom Shelley
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8-legged robot has high tech pedigree.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Art-to-part goes fastest by 3D.(three-dimensional modelling techniques)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Best materials are the key to improved electrics. (power electrical products).Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Bonded car sets new safety standard: novel bonded aluminium and composite structures have reduced weight and enhanced safety in a new car. The thinking behind them could change the way other products are made.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Business wide EDM takes off. (engineering data management).Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
CAD smooths vibration and heat distortion. (Plastics in Engineering)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Colour creates the impact. (computer peripherals).Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Compact joint is smooth and pure: a new way of transferring torque between misaligned shafts has its roots in the steam age but looks like becoming a technology for the 21st Century.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Coupling and optimizing push back the frontiers. (finite element analysis).Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Directed field speeds small valve rocker: a new solenoid valve uses novel design to achieve high reliability, fast operation and efficient electrical operation at low cost.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Directed forces soften the ride: active vibration and distortion control has been made to work in a structure of great complexity.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Drives gain riches from the deep. (motors and drives).Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Dynamic software solves special problems. (uses of computational fluid dynamic software)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Fast water motors cut more precisely: extreme precision and constant power output over an extremely wide speed range characterise a new range of spindle motors.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Flat gears change in small space. (automatic gearbox for bicycles)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Fluid thrust fast reverses non stop. (invention of new-style thrust reverser)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Folded loops locate coils with precision: a new method of inductive sensing enables linear, rotational and two-dimensional position sensing at low cost.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Fuzzy bundles provide focused pictures: defence industry research has resulted in lower cost underwater vision systems with real potential in hazardous areas and manufacturing.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Glass chips perform chemical processes. (use of glass chips in chemical analysis and fine chemical processing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Graphics just go on getting better. (the latest developments in computer graphics)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Hydrostatic drives go digital.(transmission systems performance in construction equipment)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Integral radio cuts costs in sensing. (use of lower power radio transmitters in pressure transducers; Ellison Sensors International)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Intelligent sensors break cost barrier.(innovative sensors)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Low cost eddies find defects in composites. (Plastics in Engineering)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Metal circuit boards take the drive heat: a new inverter features designed-in copper circuit boards to remove detrimental electro-magnetic and thermal problems.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Microsensors react to small pressures.(silicon micro-machined pressure sensors)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Micro yaw sensor spreads light. (product being developed for use with anti-lock braking systems may revolutionize headlight systems)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
More for less - 2D or 3D.(low cost CAD systems)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Oils turned solid to stop up leaks.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Overlapping prototyping streamlines production: 3D CAD allied to modems cut out much of the usual legwork during the design of a new electronic communications module.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Printed heaters boil with power: a major advance in power-printed circuit technology is demonstrated in a widely-used domestic appliance.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Remote repair keeps PCs on track: a new technique for remotely monitoring and rectifying PCs is a great leap forward in terms of improved maintenance of electronic controls.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Safety technologies meet harder challenge: advances in intelligent safety relays and controllers fulfil the needs of new regulations, some of which are about to be applied retroactively. (includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Siloxane coatings hold key to metal protection: a novel coating strategy has the potential to revolutionise adhesive bonding and metal finishing processes.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Software speeds design but has far to go. (automatic design software)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Speeding the process of art to part. (rapid prototyping).Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Strut self pumps to your required level.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Surgical robot wields the knife more safely: radical rethinking in machine design has led to the development of the first autonomous surgical robot to operate on human soft tissue.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Top end CAD speeds the path to profit. (MGA invests in advanced CADCAM)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
VR comes out of the screen. (use of virtual reality in design)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
Wireless sensor data best sent by heat.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTom Shelley
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