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        "type": "patent",
        "title": "Flow energy harvesting devices and system",
        "author": [
            {
                "family_name": "Sherrit",
                "given_name": "Stewart",
                "orcid": "0000-0003-0656-4889",
                "clpid": "Sherrit-Stewart"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Lee",
                "given_name": "Hyeong Jae",
                "orcid": "0000-0001-9181-2087",
                "clpid": "Lee-Hyeong-Jae"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Colonius",
                "given_name": "Timothy E.",
                "orcid": "0000-0003-0326-3909",
                "clpid": "Colonius-T"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Tosi",
                "given_name": "Luis Phillipe",
                "orcid": "0000-0002-0819-4765",
                "clpid": "Tosi-L-P"
            }
        ],
        "contributor": [
            {
                "family_name": "California Institute of Technology"
            }
        ],
        "abstract": "<p>A flow energy harvesting system including a nozzle-diffuser defining a spline-shaped flow channel and a flow energy harvesting device in the spline-shaped flow channel of the nozzle-diffuser. The spline-shaped flow channel includes a converging portion, a diverging portion, and a constriction section between the converging and diverging portions. The flow energy harvesting device includes a flextensional member having a frame and a cantilever extending outward from the frame, and a stack of piezoelectric elements housed in an interior cavity defined in the frame. The cantilever is a non-piezoelectric material. The frame of the flextensional member is in the converging portion and the cantilever is in the constriction section of the spline-shaped flow channel. The frame is configured to deform and elongate the piezoelectric elements to generate a current based on the piezoelectric effect when a fluid flows through the spline-shaped flow channel and generates unbalanced forces on the cantilever due.</p>",
        "publisher": "U.S. Patent Office",
        "publication_date": "2022-04-26"
    },
    {
        "id": "authors:m4p5z-40g24",
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        "collection_id": "m4p5z-40g24",
        "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20211008-225804351",
        "type": "patent",
        "title": "Tracheotomy device",
        "author": [
            {
                "family_name": "Wilson",
                "given_name": "Byron",
                "clpid": "Wilson-Byron"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Yen",
                "given_name": "Harrison",
                "clpid": "Yen-Harrison"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Young",
                "given_name": "Ethan",
                "clpid": "Young-Ethan"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Eldredge",
                "given_name": "Jeff D.",
                "orcid": "0000-0002-2672-706X",
                "clpid": "Eldredge-Jeff-D"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Colonius",
                "given_name": "Tim",
                "orcid": "0000-0003-0326-3909",
                "clpid": "Colonius-T"
            }
        ],
        "abstract": "An aspect of the disclosure is related to a medical device for providing an air passageway through a neck of a patient. In one embodiment, the medical device may include: a neckband configured to extend around the neck of the patient, the neckband including a connector positioned along a length of the neckband for positioning along an anterior part of the neck of the patient, the connector including a connector through hole; a cannula having an elongated tube extending from a connecting head, the elongated tube being configured to extend into a trachea of the patient and including an inner passageway, the connecting head having a through hole that is continuous with the inner passageway of the elongated tube thereby allowing air to pass through the cannula into the trachea, the connecting head having an outer diameter that is sized to have a friction fit with the connector through hole.",
        "publisher": "U.S. Patent Office",
        "publication_date": "2020-07-16"
    }
]