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Metamorphic Hybrid Compliant Mechanisms (Case No. 2025-038)

Summary: Researchers in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UCLA have developed a compliant technique that can be utilized for a wide array of industries, including next-generation joint reconstruction surgeries, precision manufacturing, robotics, aerospace transportation, and automation applications. Background: Bearings are commonly used to...

Published: 3/13/2025 | Inventor(s): Tyler Clites, Cameron Taylor, He Kai Lim, Jonathan Hopkins

Keywords(s): Aeronautics, Aerospace Engineering, Automation, biomedical implantation, compliant mechanisms, constraint design, Energy Efficiency, flexure systems, Implant (Medicine), multi-degrees of freedom (DOF), Orthopaedics, Orthopedics and Prosthetics (O & P), Robotics

Category(s): Mechanical > Aeronautics & Aerospace, Mechanical > Robotics, Mechanical > Manufacturing, Mechanical > Instrumentation, Mechanical > Mechanical Systems, Medical Devices > Prosthetics, Medical Devices > Surgical Tools, Therapeutics > Orthopaedics, Materials, Therapeutics > Musculoskeletal Disease

2022-151 Improved Electrospray Propulsion Device

Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy have developed an improved electrospray propulsion device for satellites and other aerospace applications. Background: The application of electromagnetic principles for jet propulsion has been an ongoing area of research in aeronautical engineering. In particular, electric propulsion...

Published: 2/14/2025 | Inventor(s): James Rosenzweig, Victor Shichen Yu, Gerard Lawler

Keywords(s): Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aerospace Engineering, Propulsion, Spacecraft

Category(s): Materials > Nanotechnology, Mechanical > Aeronautics & Aerospace

2013-207 Hypersonic Laminar Flow Control using Surface Roughness

Summary: Dr. Xiaolin Zhong and colleagues in the UCLA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a method of maintaining laminar flows over air transportation vehicles and space reentry vehicles at high supersonic and hypersonic speeds by strategically applying surface roughness. Background: The transition of boundary-layer...

Published: 2/14/2025 | Inventor(s): Xiaolin Zhong, Kahei Danny Fong, Xiaowen Wang

Keywords(s): Aeronautics, Robotics

Category(s): Mechanical > Aeronautics & Aerospace