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Design, Modelling and Sensing Possibilities of Magneto-Rheological Based Devices

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This thesis has been put in place during the development of an innovative medical device which consists in an intelligent footwear for foot plantar pressure redistribution in diabetic patients. In fact, despite the several sophisticated techniques develope ...

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System for Adjusting Pressure Locally on the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Daniel Grivon

The invention relates to a system for adjusting pressure locally acting on the skin. Said system includes a set of adjacent modules distributed so as to form a layer. Each module includes a cushion capable of changing shape and comprising a cavity, a valve ...

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Permanent Magnet-Assisted Omnidirectional Ball Drive

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür

We present an omnidirectional ball wheel drive design that utilizes a permanent magnet as the drive roller to generate the contact force. Particularly interesting for novel human-mobile robot interaction scenarios where the users are expected to physically ...

IEEE2016

CAMEA—A novel multiplexing analyzer for neutron spectroscopy

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Christian Rüegg, Felix Groitl

The analyzerdetector system continuous angle multiple energy analysis will be installed on the cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer RITA-2 at SINQ, PSI. CAMEA is optimized for efficiency in the horizontal scattering plane enabling rapid and detailed mappi ...

American Institute of Physics2016

High precision trajectory and speed sensor and measuring method

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

A method for contactlessly determining an exact passage of an athlete at points placed along a track in sports, wherein the method comprises gearing the athlete with a wearable magnetometer sensor unit, whereby the magnetometer sensor unit is equipped with ...

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Organisation Mondiale de la Proprieté Intellectuelle2016

LTS and HTS high current conductor development for DEMO

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Davide Uglietti

The large size of the magnets for DEMO calls for very large operating current in the forced flow conductor. A plain extrapolation from the superconductors in use for ITER is not adequate to fulfill the technical and cost requirements. The proposed DEMO TF ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

A magnetic tunnel to shelter hyperpolarized fluids

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Aurélien Bornet, Pascal Miéville, Roger Mottier, Sami Jannin, Jonas Milani, Basile Vuichoud

To shield solutions carrying hyperpolarized nuclear magnetization from rapid relaxation during transfer through low fields, the transfer duct can be threaded through an array of permanent magnets. The advantages are illustrated for solutions containing hyp ...

American Institute of Physics2015

A new class of chiral materials hosting magnetic skyrmions beyond room temperature

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Jonathan White

Skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like nanometric spin textures in magnets, have been attracting increasing attention for emergent electromagnetic responses and possible technological applications for spintronics. In particular, metallic magnets wi ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

The DEMO plant will demonstrate by mid century the feasibility of electric power generation by nuclear fusion. Since 2011, conceptual design studies are coordinated by the EFDA Power Plant Physics and Technology (PPPT) Division, with the aim of identifying ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014