Name: kent koehler
Member since: 2003-07-31 09:12:26
Last Login: 2003-07-31 09:17:16

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Notes: I run a company started in 1997 dba CITYDESK VIDEO & MFG., INC. We (1 employee & myself) work with assistive technology for the disabled utilizing Processor-based electro- mechanical/pneumatic devices such as a wheelchair that obeys voice commands incorporated with a 5 axis proximity sensor & solid-state gyroscopic inertia transducers. The chair will also lock on to another person and follow them and obey their voice instructions. We've limited the vocabulary of the instructions to eliminate voice training/error difficulties. A present project is a robotic device that will stitch the hide onto baseballs. The device uses an optical and tactile (a device that is pat. pending) transducers. While this may seem insignificant, investigation will demonstrate that at present, all baseballs are still handstitched yet as of this date. The parameters involved require a complex string of decisions by the stitcher as well as the stitch itself does not lend itself to any automated stitching process/s now in existence. At present the machine has difficulty with tension in a 3-D axis. We are presently performing several patent searches on the sub-designs & are working on documentation to be submitted to the US Patent Office. We plan to have a working prototype by early 2004. We work with EEPROM Programming, DAC/ADC, SMPS, Interfacing low current to high current, Ladder Diagrams, & Feedback Methods allied with Machine Tool/Engineering Mat'ls skills and advanced Polymer Chemistry. We have a working demonstration of a polymer "muscle" that contracts (we won't say how) with significant force upon application of a stimulus. A bionic muscle if you will.

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