The Nature of the Gecko Lizard Adhesive Force

Biophysical Journal;  August 1, 2005 ;   Sun, Wanxin; Neuzil, Pavel; Kustandi, Tanu Suryadi; Oh, Sharon; Samper, Victor D;   787 words ......the dominant force involved is the capillary force. Received for publication 2 May 2005...accompanied by stronger forces such as the capillary force in air or a dipole force in water...vacuum) environment to eliminate the capillary force (7). Due to the fact that in any natural...

Riding the jet stream: capillary forces vaporize liquids without pumps or...

Appliance Design;  November 1, 2004 ;   Buscemi, Karen;   787 words ......processes and created the first integral capillary force vaporizer (CFV). Today, Vapore, Inc...combines two common principles of nature--capillary force and phase transition--into a single...was suggested to us was to use the capillary force vaporizer. We have been working with...

Absorbing waste printer ink helps prevent clogging.(Nonwovens)

Advances in Textiles Technology;  May 1, 2005 ;     391 words ......constructing a composite in which the capillary force of each layer is selected according...application. [FIGURE 3 OMITTED] The capillary force in a nonwoven is a function of several...The lower surface provides a higher capillary force and this results in horizontal movement...

PARI's Hydrate to Be Showcased at the AARC Congress.

PR Newswire;  November 1, 2006 ;     508 words ......33 with C-Force Technology uses a capillary force vaporizer, which is about the size...features C-Force Technology that uses a capillary force vaporizer licensed from Vapore, Inc...method of liquid vaporization -- the capillary force vaporizer. About PARI Respiratory...

PARI Licenses New Vaporizer for Respiratory Care

Wireless News;  January 13, 2005 ;     339 words ......Manufacturers announced that it has licensed Vapore Inc.'s capillary force vaporizer and says the technology could lead to advances...engaged with OEM customers in developing first-generation capillary force vaporizer-based products. PARI, founded in 1906, is a provider...

PARI Innovative Manufacturers Introduces New Technology for Respiratory...

PR Newswire;  January 13, 2005 ;     676 words ......Manufacturers has licensed Vapore, Inc.'s capillary force vaporizer for use in respiratory care...innovative technology utilizes the capillary force vaporizer, which is about the size...method of liquid vaporization -- the capillary force vaporizer. Vapore has proven prototype...

Vapore and PARI partner to develop medical device.(Industry Watch)

Medical Design Technology;  November 1, 2004 ;     77 words ......delivery devices for patients with respiratory diseases. Vapore has developed a method of liquid vaporization called the capillary force vaporizer, it's a compact, heat-powered disc that generates a powerful jet of pressurized vapor from un-pressurized liquid...

Japanese Inventors Develop Heat Transport Device

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 15, 2007 ;     297 words ......evaporator and the condenser. The evaporator generates a capillary force to circulate working fluid. This structure prevents the...gradually decrease from the condenser toward the evaporator, the capillary force at the liquid channels can be increased, and vapor-phase...

PARI's Hydrate Wins Prestigious R&D 100 Award.

PR Newswire;  October 24, 2007 ;     457 words ......innovators. The PARI Hydrate with C-Force Technology uses a capillary force vaporizer, which is about the size of a large aspirin tablet...under pressure through an opening. C-Force Technology uses a Capillary Force Vaporizer, licensed by PARI from Vapore, Inc. at http...

PARI's Hydrate Receives FDA 510k Clearance.

PR Newswire;  March 13, 2007 ;     472 words ......lungs). The PARI Hydrate G.33 with C-Force Technology uses a capillary force vaporizer, which is about the size of a large aspirin tablet...PARI's Hydrate features C-Force Technology that uses a capillary force vaporizer licensed from Vapore, Inc. About PARI Respiratory...

Fragmentation of Faceted Dendrite in Solidification of Undercooled B-Doped...

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions;  December 1, 2005 ;   Nagashio, K; Okamoto, H; Kuribayashi, K; Jimbo, I;   787 words ......undercoolings of more than 200 K. It was suggested that the capillary force acts on the interface with a relatively high energy to break...developed a quantitative model of dendrite breakup driven by capillary force during solidification from an undercooled melt.[5] Schwarz...

A pump with no moving parts.(Scanning The Field For Ideas)

Machine Design;  April 1, 2004 ;   Mraz, Stephen J.;   262 words ...The Vapore-Jet pump developed by Vapore Inc., Richmond, Calif. (www.vapore.com), uses two fundamental phenomena, capillary force and phase transition, to vaporize a liquid and forcefully eject it as a gas. The small device could be used in camping...

Air Products Announces Photolithography Breakthrough; New Surface...

PR Newswire;  July 8, 2003 ;     591 words ......lines can have pattern collapse, which is caused by the capillary force of the rinse liquid during the final drying stage. Formulated...technology, OptiPattern solution significantly reduces the capillary force by decreasing the adhesion tension of the rinse liquid...

Rearrangement densification in liquid-phase sintering

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions;  December 1, 2001 ;   Liu, Jianxin; German, Randall M;   787 words ......movement of individual grains through capillary force effects can provide a burst of rapid...forms a pendular bond that provides a capillary force on the grain contacts. This capillary force results in a sintering force that causes...

Shrinkage and splitting of microcracks under pressure simulated by the...

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions;  April 1, 2002 ;   Huang, Peizhen; Sun, Zhonghua Li Jun;   787 words ......the two split voids assume a cylindrical shape under the capillary force of the surface. For the microcrack perpendicular to the...two cylindrical channels with a circular section by the capillary force of the surface. These evolution processes are controlled...