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Near‑Net‑Shape Manufacturing of Lightweight Steel Pistons
TS-074512 —
Modern diesel and high‑performance internal combustion engines demand pistons that withstand extreme thermal and mechanical loads while becoming lighter, more fuel‑efficient, and lower cost to manufacture. Steel pistons offer durability advantages over aluminum but are traditionally heavy and …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Shivpuri, Rajiv
- Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder
Modified Impact Welding: Gap-Free Impulse Welding for Ultra‑Thin Metal Stacks
TS-073603 —
Manufacturers increasingly need to join stacks of very thin metallic foils and mixed‑thickness layers for applications such as electrification, electronics, and advanced manufacturing. Existing solid‑state joining methods—most notably impact welding and ultrasonic welding—struggle with the…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Vivek, Anupam; Daehn, Glenn
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Low-Power Cold Weld Joining for In-Space Manufacturing
TS-070382 — The Need
Current methods for joining metal components in space environments are often complex, energy-intensive, and can compromise the integrity of the materials due to heat-affected zones. There is a need for a reliable, low-power, and safe solution that can create strong metal bonds without causi…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Lui, Edward; Daehn, Glenn; Horack, John
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Intermediate Steel Alloy for Joining Steel to Aluminum
TS-069805 — The Need
Welding or bonding steel to aluminum is challenging due to the formation of brittle Fe-Al intermetallic compounds, which weaken the joints. Current methods require alternative, costly joining processes. There is a critical need for a solution that allows the use of traditional welding tech…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Zhang, Wei; Walker, Luke
- Licensing Officer: Sharick, Joe
Computational Design of Experiment Framework for Processing of Metal Alloys
TS-067792 — A software tool for optimizing the manufacturing process for metal alloys.
Metallic alloys are composed of a homogeneous mixture of two or more metals or of metals and nonmetal or metalloid elements to provide specific characteristics or structural properties. Alloys are used in many applications, such as aircraft, offshore drilling, automobiles, and others.
Obtaining t…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Alexandrov, Boian; Forquer, Matthew; Jang, Eun; Luo, Yuxiang; Stewart, Jeffrey
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Apparatus and Method for Enhanced Determination of Optimal Operational Separation for Collaborative Robotic Systems
TS-063983 —
Collaborative robotic systems, often referred to as cobots, represent a transformative advancement in industrial automation. Unlike traditional robots that are typically large, heavy, and designed to work in insolation behind safety barriers, cobots are designed to work alongside human operators c…
- College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
- Inventors: Tkach, Chris
- Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana
Integrally Joined Stainless Steel-NiTi Medical Devices
TS-050057 — A method for manufacturing surgical tools and implants with strong, gapless joints between NiTi (Nitinol) and stainless steel to capitalize on the best properties of both materials.
NiTi (Nitinol) is widely accepted and used for medical devices such as surgical tools and implants due to its biocompatibility and unique thermal-mechanical properties which provide super-elastic or shape memory responses. However, there are currently no commercial solutions for joining of NiTi to…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Panton, Boyd; Dapino, Marcelo; Gingerich, Mark; Headings, Leon; Morris, Jennifer
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Integration of smart materials into surgical tools and medical devices using vaporizing foil actuator technology.
TS-045092 —
Shape memory alloys are metals that "remember" their original shape when deformed and can return to their initial shape when heated. These shape memory alloys cannot currently be welded to other alloys, which significantly limits their use. Current state-of-the-art methods of joining sha…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Panton, Boyd; Daehn, Glenn; Vivek, Anupam
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Ultrasonic Resistance Spot Welding Process and Apparatus
TS-041781 — An improvement to ultrasonic and resistance spot welding
Ultrasonic welding is widely used in the electronics industry to weld together wiring in delicate circuits and on microcircuits. It is also used in the automotive industry, medical industry, and packaging industry, often to weld dissimilar materials or plastics. The major advantages in ultrasonic …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Liu, Xun; Benatar, Avraham "Avi"; Kimchi, Menachem
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Hybrid Structures for Joining of Metals and Continuous Fiber Materials
TS-037339 — Emerging technology that uses solid state ultrasonic metal welding to create metal parts.
Various market segments such as automotive and aerospace continue to seek more ways to 'lightweight' their vehicles using more aluminum, magnesium, titanium and other low-weight alloys in place of heavier alloys. This also includes composites. To incorporate these lightweighting materials …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Dapino, Marcelo; Detwiler, Duane; Gingerich, Mark; Hahnlen, Ryan; Headings, Leon; Scheidt, Matthew; Sheldon, Allen
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
