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Prototypes
Hospital Bed for Burn Victims
 Berkeley Engineering And Research has extensive experience designing, developing, and building prototypes for a wide variety of applications. Design and prototype work has ranged from large mobile climbing wall structures down to electrosurgical probes. BEAR can design and prototype static mechanical components such as passive cooling systems, dynamic mechical systems such as mobile rotating and extending radar support structions, or complex computer driven electromechanical devices such as highly accurate three dimensional scanner systems.ng to the fuel injectors had been leaking.
Static mechanical devices, such as this hospital bed for burn victims require mechanical engineering knowledge to be designed in a practical, efficient, and safe fashion. Another example of this is the non-slip pipe threading wrench that BEAR developed and patented. Mechanical design and material behavior both play a roll in this device, and the result is a practical and easy to use tool capable of manually threading pipe in a safe and repeatable fashion. |
Threading Wrench |
Propane Service Valve
Dynamic mechanical devices require this same attention to practicality, efficiency, and safety, but also require knowledge of bearing surfaces, motors, and the mechanical dynamics involved in rotating and moving components. One example of this type of device is the mobile radar support structure that was designed by BEAR. This structure required three dimensional modeling of both the mechanical structure and componentry and the mechanical motion itself. Using closed form and computational solutions, the structure can be modeled both for structural stability and for dynamic functionality. Another dynamic mechanical device BEAR has prototyped is a propane service valve with overfill protection. Here, BEAR married a number of existing technologies to create a safe and effective device for filling and operating a large propane cylinder.
BEAR also has extensive experience with computer controlled, fully customized, software and hardware integrated prototypes. One example is the HoloScanner three dimensional scanning system. This was developed from the ground up as a complete system, capable of capturing the three dimensional geometry of a wide range of objects, ranging from as small as a coin up to as large as a house. The prototype work included complete mechanical design of the hardware, design and development of the software that controls the hardware and processes the data, and development of a fully independent software package for viewing and analyzing the results of the scan.
BEAR can offer services from preliminary design, to design review to a full integration of hardware and software, design and development, fabrication and testing. |
 Radar Support Structure |
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