One embodiment of the present invention provides an energy-management system for managing energy within a predominantly closed power system. The system includes an upper-level energy-management module (802), at least one lower-level energy-management modul...

One embodiment of the present invention provides an energy-management system (102) for managing energy within a predominantly closed power system. The system includes an identifying mechanism configured to identify a number of components coupled to the ene...

One embodiment of the present invention provides an energy-management system for managing energy within a predominantly closed power system. During operation, the system obtains one or more control actions that control energy transitions of a plurality of ...

One embodiment of the present invention provides managing component driver for an energy-management system that manages energy within a predominantly closed power system. The component driver (108,110) includes a receiving mechanism configured to receive c...

A method and apparatus for ultrasonic contact imaging. A thin-film transistor (TFT) array (225) is deposited on a substrate (210). A receiver (220) having a plurality of receiver elements is deposited on the TFT array (225) to receive a received signal. A ...

An electrode structure has a layer of at least two interdigitated materials, a first material being an electrically conductive material and a second material being an ionically conductive material, the materials residing co-planarly on a membrane in fluid ...

Methods and systems for assessing the effect of road curvature on the travel time and the comfort level of a path determined by a ground based route planning system. The methods and systems identify (102) a path and determine (104) an allowable speed profi...

A thermo-electro-acoustic engine comprises a sealed body (12) having a regenerator (14), hot and cold heat exchangers (16,18), an acoustic source (20), and an acoustic energy converter (22). An acoustic pressure wave is generated in a gas in the region of ...