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VIASPACE Subsidiary Collaborates With Harvey Mudd College
Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation Sponsors Engineering Clinic
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC - News), a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions that solve today's complex problems, announced today that its subsidiary company Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation (DMFCC) has become a sponsor of the Engineering Clinic program at Harvey Mudd College. The announcement was made by Dr. Carl Kukkonen, CEO of VIASPACE and DMFCC.
The Harvey Mudd College Engineering Clinic program engages a team of four students and a faculty advisor in solving real-world technical problems for corporate clients. The corporate sponsor retains rights to all intellectual property developed by the team.
DMFCC produces methanol fuel cartridges that provide the energy source for laptop computers and other portable electronic devices that will be powered by direct methanol fuel cells. The Harvey Mudd Clinic team will work on innovative approaches to fuel cartridges including safety and child resistance.
Fuel cells are expected to gain a substantial market share because they offer longer operating time as compared to current lithium ion batteries and may be instantaneously recharged by simply replacing the disposable fuel cartridge. Direct methanol fuel cells are being developed for these applications by companies such as Toshiba, NEC, Hitachi and Sanyo in Japan, and by Samsung in Korea.
"Harvey Mudd has some of the top engineering students in the world," stated Dr. Kukkonen. "Our challenging Clinic project will give the students practical experience, and VIASPACE will benefit from their innovative designs for the next generation of fuel cell cartridges"
About VIASPACE: Unparalleled Knowledge. Unparalleled Solutions.
VIASPACE is a diversified technology company with unparalleled knowledge and expertise in energy/fuel cells, microelectronics, sensors, homeland security & public safety, information & computational technology, and RFID. Founded in 1998 with the objective of transforming proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions that solve today's complex problems, VIASPACE benefits from important patent and software licenses from Caltech, which manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and from relationships with research laboratories, universities, and other organizations within the advanced technology community. For more information, please visit our website at www.VIASPACE.com, contact Investor Relations at (888) 359-9558 or IR@VIASPACE.com, or Public Relations at PR@VIASPACE.com.
About Harvey Mudd College:
Harvey Mudd College, located in Claremont, California in suburban Los Angeles, was founded in 1955 in cooperation with the family of Harvey S. Mudd, a mining engineer and co-founder of one of the richest copper mines in the world. Harvey Mudd College, with a student body of just 700 students, has become a leader in science, mathematics and engineering education. Its mission is to educate undergraduate men and women in a demanding academic setting focusing on mathematics, science and engineering and to provide a rich background in humanities and social sciences. Harvey Mudd College is ranked in the top 20 small liberal arts colleges, and is listed as having one of the best undergraduate engineering programs in the nation.
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VIASPACE, Inc. recently announced that its Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation (DMFCC) subsidiary has designed a new plastic-based methanol fuel cartridge to serve as the energy source for portable electronic devices powered by direct methanol fuel cells.
"Low-cost fuel cartridges are analogous to disposable alkaline batteries, but a cartridge containing 50 cubic centimeters of methanol can power your laptop for five or more hours compared to 10 minutes if you used an alkaline battery," said VIASPACE and DMFCC chief executive officer Carl Kukkonen.
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Ionfinity Subsidiary Issued Broad-Based Patent on Applications of New Ion Source
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC - News), a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions that solve today's complex problems, announced that its subsidiary company, Ionfinity, has been issued its fourth patent, U.S. Pat. No. 6,940,074 entitled: "Devices incorporating soft ionization membrane" on September 6, 2005. The patent covers a wide variety of next generation devices incorporating Ionfinity's advanced nanotechnology ionizers including devices utilizing electron streams such as light sources, electron bombardment sensors, thyratrons, vacuum tubes, plasma displays, microwave switches, and applications utilizing ion streams such as ion focused milling, maskless ion implantation, ion beam lithography, and semiconductor mask modification. The announcement was made by Dr. Carl Kukkonen, CEO of VIASPACE.
Ionfinity is developing mass spectrometry technology for industrial process control and homeland security/national defense applications. Ionfinity has a contract with the Navy to develop a portable mass spectrometer to detect industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents in air and water samples. The company also has a contract from the US Air Force to apply the soft ionization membrane technology to electric propulsion for nano satellites
The soft ionization membrane, invented by Ionfinity cofounder, Frank Hartley, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a new technique to produce ions which are then used in a variety of commercial and defense applications. The soft ionization membrane produces ions very efficiently without fragmenting the samples as many other ionization techniques do. This leads to higher sensitivity and allows tabletop laboratory instruments, such as mass spectrometers, to be miniaturized and made portable. In the process of producing ions, electrons are also produced and the current patent also covers applications of these electrons.
Ionfinity has three other patents on its soft ionization membrane technology (U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,828,552, 6,642,526, and 6,610,986) and has an exclusive license from Caltech to U.S. Pat. No. 6,921,906 which relates to the use of an ionization membrane in connection with a rotating field mass spectrometer.
About VIASPACE: Unparalleled Knowledge. Unparalleled Solutions.
VIASPACE is a diversified technology company with unparalleled knowledge and expertise in energy/fuel cells, microelectronics, sensors, homeland security & public safety, information & computational technology, and RFID. Founded in 1998 with the objective of transforming proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions that solve today's complex problems, VIASPACE benefits from important patent and software licenses from Caltech, which manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and from relationships with research laboratories, universities, and other organizations within the advanced technology community. For more information, please visit our website at www.VIASPACE.com, contact Investor Relations at (888) 359-9558 or IR@VIASPACE.com, or Public Relations at PR@VIASPACE.com.
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