• Refill Friction Stir Spot Joining for aerospace aluminum alloys 

  Boldsaikhan, Enkhsaikhan; Fukada, Shintaro; Fujimoto, Mitsuo; Kamimuki, Kenichi; Okada, Hideki; Duncan, Brent; Bui, Phuonghanh; Yeshiambel, Michael; Brown, Brian M.; Handyside, Alan Bruce (Springer, 2017)

  Refill Friction Stir Spot Joining (RFSJ) developed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is a derivative technology of friction stir spot welding for joining aerospace aluminum alloys. The aerospace aluminum alloys were ...

• End effector for forming swept friction stir spot welds 

  Burford, Dwight A. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2015-09-15)

  An apparatus includes a connector and is configured to mount to a machine having multiple axes of control. A control signal on the connector determines a path of a rotating tool holder.

• Macrocyclic and peptidomimetic compounds as broad-spectrum antivirals against 3C or 3C-like proteases of picornaviruses, caliciviruses and coronaviruses 

  Chang, Kyeong-Ok; Kim, Yunjeong; Groutas, William C. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2016-04-12)

  Antiviral protease inhibitors, including macrocylic transition state inhibitors and peptidomimetics are disclosed, along with related antiviral compounds, and methods of using the same to treat or prevent viral infection ...

• Sulfamide and bis-sulfamide amino acid derivatives as inhibitors of proteolytic enzymes 

  Groutas, William C. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2002-12-17)

  Compounds of the general formula I are provided: ##STR1## and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein, Z is a chemical species or R.sub.i capable of binding at a primary specificity site of a protease; Y is a ...

• System and method for capturing image sequences at ultra-high framing rates 

  Madhavan, Viswanathan; Hijazi, Ala (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2010-08-17)

  An imaging system for capturing a sequence of images from a target at ultra-high framing rates is disclosed. The imaging system includes an illumination system operable to emit at least first and second light pulses at ...

• Friction stir welding tool having a counterflow pin configuration 

  Burford, Dwight A. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-05-17)

  A friction stir welding tool having one or more tapered flats for promoting flow of weld material toward the pin terminus and one or more counter-spiraling channels or threads which for promoting flow of the weld material ...

• Serine protease inhibitors 

  Groutas, William C. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1996-08-27)

  Isothiazolidin-3-one-1,1 dioxide, 3-oxo-1,2,5-thiadiazolidine-1,1,-dioxide and derivatives thereof, reduce or inhibit the activity of serine proteases. Such compounds are useful as anti-inflammatory and anti-metastatic agents.

• 1,2,5, thiadiazolidin-3-one 1,1-dioxide derivatives 

  Groutas, William C.; Kuang, Rongze (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2002-07-16)

  Substituted derivatives of 1,2,5-thiadiazolidin-3-one 1,1-dioxides, oligomers containing them, and methods of using them.

• Friction stir welding tool having a scroll-free concentric region 

  Burford, Dwight A. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-09-13)

  A friction stir welding tool having a shoulder section with a scroll pattern that terminates prior to the edge or boundary of the shoulder section to create a scroll-free concentric surface area.

• End effector for forming swept friction stir spot welds 

  Burford, Dwight A. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2013-05-21)

  An apparatus includes a connector and is configured to mount to a machine having multiple axes of control. A control signal on the connector determines a path of a rotating tool holder.

• Latent isocynate derivatives useful for deactivating enzymes 

  Groutas, William C. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1990-05-29)

  Certain amino-acid derivatives are disclosed as effective inhibitors of human leukocyte elastase and therefore useful in preventing the imbalance of this proteolytic enzyme in vivo. The compounds specifically are derivatives ...

• Protective antigen having fluorinated histidine residues 

  Bann, James G. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2010-06-08)

  The unnatural amino acid analogue 2-fluorohistidine (2-FHis) was incorporated into protective antigen to produce a protein which resists protonation at physiological pH by reducing the side-chain pKa. The protein structure ...

• Viral and fungal inhibitors 

  Padmanabhan, Radhakrishnan; Groutas, William C.; Korba, Brent E (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2013-08-20)

  Novel classes of viral and fungal inhibitors are disclosed. These compounds are useful in treating, preventing, and/or ameliorating viral infections such as, for example, Hepatitis C Virus, West Nile Virus, Dengue Virus, ...

• Method and system for capture and use of intact vesicles on electrodeposited hydrophobically modified biopolymer films 

  Dowling, Matthew; Raghavan, Srinivasa R.; Dashaputre, Neeraja; English, Douglas S.; Javvaji, Vishal; Payne, Gregory F.; DeShong, Philip R. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2014-10-14)

  A biosensor comprising an electrically conductive substrate coated with a modified chitosan biopolymer that has been electrodeposited on the substrate, wherein said modified chitosan biopolymer comprises at least one vesicle ...

• Energy absorbing seat mechanism 

  Olivares, Gerardo (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2016-05-03)

  A system includes a shear member and an energy absorber. The shear member is configured to couple a seat portion to a base structure of a vehicle. The shear member is configured to sustain a first load without fracture and ...

• Broad-spectrum antivirals against 3C or 3C-like proteases of picornavirus-like supercluster: picornaviruses, caliciviruses and coronaviruses 

  Chang, Kyeong-Ok; Kim, Yunjeong; Groutas, William C.; Hua, Duy; Saif, Linda J. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2016-10-25)

  Antiviral protease inhibitors, including peptidyl aldehydes, peptidyl .alpha.-ketoamides, peptidyl bisulfate salts, and peptidyl heterocycles, are disclosed, along with related antiviral compounds, and methods of using the ...

• Multi-scale characterization of an adhesive bondline with fabrication induced defects 

  Fang, Eugene; Lua, Jim; Zhang, Yongjie Jessica; Lai, Yicong; Seneviratne, Waruna P. (DEStech Publications, Inc., 2015)

  A multiscale characterization of an adhesive bondline is performed to investigate the fabrication defects dependent failure mechanisms of an I-beam under four point bending. To obtain a realistic representative volume of ...

• ACG MTM45-1: Material Model Development Final Project Wrap-Up 

  Shahkarami, A.; Van Ee, D. (Wichita State University. National Institute for Aviation Research, 2009-11-15)

  National Center for Advanced Material Performance document prepared by: A. Shahkarami and D. Van Ee. Reviewed by: D. Van Ee Approved: A.Poursartip. Date: November 15th, 2009 Version: 1.0

• The use of neural network and discrete Fourier transform for real-time evaluation of friction stir welding 

  Boldsaikhan, Enkhsaikhan; Corwin, Edward M.; Logar, Antonette M.; Arbegast, William J. (Elsevier, 2011-12)

  This paper introduces a novel real-time approach to detecting wormhole defects in friction stir welding in a nondestructive manner. The approach is to evaluate feedback forces provided by the welding process using the ...

• Performance evaluation of child safety seats in far-side lateral sled tests at varying speeds 

  Ghati, Yoganand; Menon, Rajiv A.; Milone, Mary; Lankarani, Hamid M.; Olivares, Gerardo (Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, 2009-10-05)

  Protection of children in Child Safety Seats (CSS) in side impact crashes has been a topic of recent studies. The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of CSS in far-side impacts through a series of sled ...

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