TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: NASA Langley's Advanced Actuators and Transducers (LAR-TOPS-21)

Notice ID:

T2P-LaRC-00060

Department/Ind. Agency:

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Sub-tier:

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

All Dates/Times are:

(UTC-04:00) EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NEW YORK, USA

Updated Published Date:

(UTC-04:00) EASTERN STANDARD TIME, NEW YORK, USA

Original Published Date:

2020-10-30 05:38:00

Original Response Date:

Oct 29, 2021 05:00 pm EDT

Inactive Policy:

15 days after response date

Original Inactive Date:

Nov 13, 2021

Initiative:

• None***--***

Product Service Code:

9999 - MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

NAICS Code:

927110 - Space Research and Technology

Original Set Aside:

NASA’s Technology Transfer Program solicits inquiries from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use. NASA provides no funding in conjunction with these potential licenses. THE TECHNOLOGY: NASA's Langley Research Center has developed actuators and transducers that are deployed to harvest mechanical energy in the environment and store it as electrical energy; and, to convert stored electrical energy into mechanical energy. By developing a transducer based on advanced electroactive materials, NASA has produced a design that can harvest orders of magnitude more energy in a given application than traditional solutions, yielding more power to drive devices and to store in batteries. In a complementary effort, a hybrid actuator system (HYBAS) with both an electroactive polymer (EAP) and an electroactive ceramic (EAC) achieves enhanced displacement performance from a single power supply, greatly reducing electrical consumption while simultaneously improving mechanical displacement compared to current state-of-the-art actuators. To express interest in this opportunity, please submit a license application through NASA’s Automated Technology Licensing Application System (ATLAS) by visiting https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/LAR-TOPS-21 If you have any questions, please e-mail NASA’s Technology Transfer Program at Agency-Patent-Licensing@mail.nasa.gov with the title of this Technology Transfer Opportunity as listed in this beta.SAM.gov notice and your preferred contact information. For more information about licensing other NASA-developed technologies, please visit the NASA Technology Transfer Portal at https://technology.nasa.gov/ These responses are provided to members of NASA’s Technology Transfer Program for the purpose of promoting public awareness of NASA-developed technology products, and conducting preliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for future licensing opportunities. No follow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.

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Primary Point of Contacts:

NASA’s Technology Transfer Program