Recent Patents on Engineering - Volume 13, Issue 3, 2019

Background: The application of magnetic encoder relieves the problem of reliable application of servo system in vibration field. The magnetic encoder raises the efficiency and reliability of the system, and from structural considerations, the magnetic encoder is divided into two parts: signal conversion and structural support. Objective: In order to improve the accuracy of the magnetic encoder, its structure is constantly impr Read More

Background: The wall climbing robot is an automatic mechanical device capable of being adsorbed on the wall surface and carrying out various predetermined work. Compared with human labor, the wall climbing robot has the advantages of high efficiency, low cost and stable operation quality. It can replace human beings to accomplish various dangerous work, reduce the risk and labor intensity of high-altitude operation Read More

Background: Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug worldwide. Although cannabis can be considered a malignant drug that affects health and produces adverse effects on individuals, their families and society, it should be noted that therapeutic use has a scientific basis. Objective: This study was carried out through a joint methodology that included both the analysis of patents and scientometrics, with the purpose of co Read More

Background: Biodiesel is an energy source considered of great importance in both production processes and to satisfy domestic needs. However, production and use of this biofuel have troubles regarding the sustainability and efficiency. Objective: Considering the problems in the production of a sustainable and efficient biodiesel carrie, this study of patents analysis was done having the main objective to identify new technologie Read More

Background: Calibration of cutting coefficients is the key content in modeling a mechanistic cutting force model. Generally, in modeling cutting force for ball end milling, the tangent, radial and binormal cutting force coefficients are each considered as a polynomial, respectively. This fact is due to the dependency between the cutting force coefficients and the cutting edge inclination angle which is variable in ball-end mills. O Read More

Background: The fabrication of micro-groove and microstructures in non-conductive hard and brittle materials is always difficult. The electrochemical discharge milling process is a good selection for the fabrication of micro-grooves and microstructures. Objective: In this paper, an electrochemical discharge milling process for fabricating micro-grooves is introduced. In order to investigate the influences of pulse volt Read More

Background & Objective: Patents suggest that time synchronization in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) directs at imparting a common time scale for local clocks of nodes in the network. It has been observed that all hardware clocks are unsynchronized, local clocks of nodes may drift away from each other in time. Hence durations of time intervals may differ for each node in the network. This paper evaluates the performance by Read More

Background: A mobile Ad-hoc Network is a network in which each node is independent of all other nodes of the network. In MANETs, nodes do not have proper infrastructure. The power source of the Mobile Ad-hoc network is battery power. As we all know, battery power has a certain limit and problems. Objective: The main objective of this manuscript is to resolve the power problem of nodes of mobile ad hoc networks and incr Read More

Background: A significant issue of consideration in wireless sensor networks is to reduce the energy utilization while preserving the required coverage and connectivity of an area of interest. We have revised all patents relating to preserving of energy in sensor motes of the wireless sensor networks. Methods: We proposed a novel; Intelligent Water Drop based coverage-connectivity and lifespan protocol which minimi Read More

Background: Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is among the most promising technologies that can be used to monitor crucial ambient conditions. WSNs are capable of effectively monitoring the environmental parameters and any habitat necessary to be investigated. Sometimes, it is very important to periodically monitor the critical environmental parameters such as humidity, temperature, soil moisture, fire, volcanic erup Read More

Background: In view of the complex system structure and uncertain factors in the fault diagnosis of hydroelectric generating units (HGU), it is a difficult problem to design the diagnosis method rationally. Objective: An attempt is made to employ multi-source feature information to improve the accuracy of fault diagnosis, and the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified by using a diagnostic example. Methods: Throu Read More

Background: Curve interpolation is very important in engineering such as computer aided design, image analysis and NC machining. Many patents on curve interpolation have been invented. Objective: Since different knot vector configuration and data point parameterization can generate different shapes of an interpolated B-spline curve, the goal of this paper is to propose a novel adaptive genetic algorithm (GA) based int Read More