Safety and Security 2011
Car Collision Energy Neutralizer
Car Collision Energy Neutralizer
High speed is the biggest factor in deciding the impact extent of a car collision. High speed results in high kinetic energy which in turn results in greater collisions.
The idea here is to have some potential energy stored in the car (always) which will cancel some amount of the kinetic energy at the time of collision.
The car chassis is divided into two portions -
Upper portion - Comprising the seats which can slide over the lower portion.
Lower portion - The main base to which the car wheels and the steering + dashboard are attached (It has more ...
InvisiTower
InvisiTower is a persistent, rapidly deployable aerial platform for surveillance and communications. It consists of a small unmanned aerial vehicle that is connected by a tether to a power source on the ground. The platform can remain aloft and stationary indefinitely, carrying a payload of cameras, sensors, or communication repeaters. Thus, it becomes an instantly deployable “tower” to use for communications, intelligence, surveillance, or reconnaissance.
InvisiTower is a transportable, self-deploying, fully recoverable device that can be carried in a vehicle trunk. It can be launched with the push of a button. Power is delivered over a fiber optic cable ...
Smart Valve Box and Cover
Valve boxes and covers, as currently used, are a cost center and allow for security and safety vulnerabilities. The purposes of the invention are to increase highway safety and to extend the useful life of a pavement by eliminating pavement settlement and the development of potholes at the site of the valve cover (due to the flexing of the pavement/earth and the current rigid design).
As of right now, a terrorist can ignite a gas line through an unsecured cover near a crowded area, which happens in other countries.
In the case of other emergencies, such as a natural disaster ...
Tsunami Survival Capsule
Innovation
The Tsunami Survival Capsule is designed to save lives during a Tsunami event. It is designed and stressed using Aerospace Engineering methods of analysis for load cases such as initial Tsunami impact, large debris impact, sharp object penetration and many more. The capsule resides on a stand beside the residence covered by a shroud colored to suit the environment. A bright color is used to aid recovery. The function of the capsule is to ride the Tsunami, rather than run from it.
Manufacturability
The capsule is highly manufacturable. It can be fabricated from 80% recycled materials, such as ...
Rifle Silencer and Flash Suppressor
When sound and muzzle flash are not an option. This invention helps to keep our soldiers at war safer.
With the Vacuum/Suppressor in place, the pressurized gas behind the bullet has a vacuum chamber space to expand into, so the pressure of the gas that exits the tip of the suppressor is reduced significantly; therefore, the sound of the gun firing is more silent than conventional silencers.
The present invention is a firearm suppressor that uses a vacuum chamber to reduce the sound and flash levels that are typically created when a firearm is discharged.
The vacuum chamber(s) of the ...
AquaSonus Passive-Sonar Pool Alarm
Merrimack, New Hampshire United States
Jun 23, 2011
Drowning is the second leading cause of death for children, and most occur in residential swimming pools. On average, 5,100 children are treated for submersion ijuries each year, and 383 pool related fatalities reported per year involving children younger than 15 years of age. 76% of reported fatalities were children younger than 5 years of age.
The majority of pool alarms offered in the maketplace are based on water displacement technology. This technology relies on the waves that result from a child falling into the pool reaching the alarm's trigger mechanism to sound an alarm. This approach results in a ...
The Kaplan “OWL” (Omni-Directional Wide-Angle Lens) Rotating “Holodeck” Camera
This revolutionary, continuously spinning, 360 degree panoramic, holographic, remotely controlled zoom camera achieves its real time 360 degree omni-directional panoramic stereo color (or stereo color-infrared ) real time images via the use of a set of precisely-aligned “Synchronously-Rotating Linear Triplex Lenses” (Patents Pending) and a matched and aligned set of linear CCD sensors.
The conceptual design: (Fig 1) used 3 sets of equiangular rotating Linear Triplex lenses mounted on the outside of a 14” diameter, 2 piece, injection-molded, spin-balanced plastic cylindrical case that rotates (at 24 selectable speeds from 300 to 1500 rpm) congruently with the enclosed linear sensor ...
Pod of Life: Natural Disaster Shelter
Original Concept by Dr. Kuang Y. Wu
Art and Design by Kimberly Tsai
After the wake of the tsunami and hurricane natural disasters, my uncle Kuang Wu presented to me an idea to help save lives in such situations. His idea was using a perfect sphere to protect people from danger and help save lives. After several designs and concepts, I thought of using seeds as an additional inspiration for the design. Seeds have a hard shell and have been known to survive all kinds of environments, and can still germinate and therefore survive even after thousands of years of dormancy. ...
Spi-rella
Spi-rella is a tent compatible with all terrains. The design, inspired by the anatomy of a spider and the function of an umbrella, was made in the light of difficulties faced in re-locating thousands of people affected by the 2010 floods in Pakistan.
The structure of a spi-rella comprises a spider frame and canvas covering. The canvas sheet is attached to the frame by means of hooks and ropes. The part of the frame that stays above the ground is made of bamboo, while the base is made of a steel structure fixed with a contracted internal steel spring. ...
Portable Emergency Shelter
The Trekr Dodeca Shelter© is a design for a dome structure that is strong, poses less wind resistance to a comparable flat-sided structure, and can be easily transported and erected. It is similar in design to a geodesic dome or a low-order tessellated sphere, but it is a much superior structure as it is more practical to build.
The design is based on a geometric solid known as a dodecahedron. This is a solid composed of 12 pentagon faces. To obtain more of dome shape I used each side of a pentagon as the base of a triangle. By ...
Low Cost Weather Radar
In the last ten years, atmospheric phenomena have increased exponentially, and with it thousands of lives and infrastructure have been affected. Over 30 billions dollars in losses and over 500 deaths are reported so far this year in the United States alone. The situation becomes worse in developing countries. With the advent of global warming, weather prediction and damage mitigation has become a world issue. Currently, weather radars are the main instrument to forecast events and help countries to develop mitigation plans that protect people and infrastructure. Sadly, these instruments are expensive and the majority of these catastrophic weather ...
Spherical Survival Container Kit
Innovation:
The Inflatable Spherical Survival Container is specifically engineered for a wide range of life saving applications. The use of this invention is to protect the occupants from drowning, exposure to the elements, and being injured from flying and floating debris. It is stored in a semi-portable container that is equipped with pressurized Compressed Air Tanks that inflate it in an emergency. The outside has reflective material that also glows in the dark and it is Safety orange to assist in the rescue.
Manufacturability:
The material and fabrication used to manufacture it has already been proven in the marketplace. ...
Automation Distress Alert System (ADA)
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) false alert is one of the most important problems to the international maritime organization (IMO). IMO, through the communication and search & rescue subcommittee, invites all members to recommend a system or proposal to solve this problem.
Our research team has invented a new system, the name of this system is ADA Automation Distress Alert system. We can say ADA is one of the best, new & most efficient systems for emergency reporting at sea. By using this system, the lives of thousands of people in sea emergency situations will be saved. The system has been developed ...
Vox Dei
It becomes a graver problem many times for the elderly that they may suffer a heart attack while walking or doing any physically strenuous work. The age they attain normally leaves them incapable of coping with their surroundings. In many countries, during festivals like New Year’s Day, even lighting firecrackers jeopardizes their bodily conditions. In such a case, if they do not get quick access to a medical facility, then it may be even possibly result in death.
Our device, Voice Operated Distance Emergency Informer (abbreviated as VOX-DEI) almost completely guarantee a total removal of problem, in brief we can ...
SunMod
SunMod Villages consist of 900-1300 S.F. turnkey, LEED standard, multi-use, self-sustainable, energy and satellite based telecommunications (and ISP) equipped, modular, portable community, residential, commercial and industrial buildings with hydrogen cell backup and local grid. SunMods are self-contained with all power, electrical connections, telecommunications, digital and plumbing installed and sealed at the factory. Similarly residential units include built-ins to ensure code compliance.
The multi-use community center is equipped with the latest in computing and communication technologies to provide distance education, economic development (jobs and training) and business development and agricultural support, local medical care. Powered by integrated renewable energy systems, ...
Safer Nuclear Power Generation
Endangering the world, nuclear power generation’s vulnerability to natural elements is now so visible in Fukushima, Japan. Yet, for more than 50 years the US Navy has operated safely nuclear submarines. While nuclear submarines have been lost at sea, no one of ours has ever contaminated the environment. The reason is simple: submersed in the sea, the nuclear reactor will never run out of heat sink when appropriate redundancies are designed in the system. Compared to a submarine, additional safety is achievable if the submersed spheroid is anchored via multiple cables embedded in plastic providing spring and dampener stabilization. ...
Multiple Floating Drums Helping People Lost/Stuck
Every year thousands of fishermen/people die in sea because either they are lost or stuck in the middle of nowhere after hitting a sea storm.
The idea is to have multiple floating drums in sea, communicating with each other and helping lost/stuck people. The drums will have electronic circuits (transmitters and receivers) to send and receive wireless signals from other floating drum circuits. Each drum will have a waterproof keypad to type a message and send to the coast or nearby ships. Every drum will try to communicate with nearest drums in all directions (like a web) and will ...
Active Magazine Safety for Firearms
Active firearm safeties have not became a reality because of a limitation in technology. The ability to transmit signals a short distance can be done with IR, RF, sonic and visible light even in a very small size. So an authentication key, ring, badge, holster or other device could be used to release or activate a safety in a firearm. The issues are expense, maintenance, and failure recovery.
This design is an active magazine safety. By incorporating the battery, electronics and a ammunition retaining device into the magazine, there is no need to modify an existing firearm. The electronics ...
Heartbeat-ID scanner
THINSIA Research
The Heartbeat-ID scanner measures your heart signals contactless at your wrist. These signals are compared to a special pattern on your chip card. When there is a match you will be authenticated to a system.
In this way the Heartbeat-ID scanner is used as a biometric device. Two differences with other biometric methods are that you do not need an extra life-measurement and you cannot fraud.
Every human being has a unique Heartbeat-ID. This is independent of the frequency of the beating ...
Air Conditioned Helmet
The Air Conditioned Helmet, (two patents issued), is the first and only practical thermoelectric air conditioned helmet. It uses a special woven air flow structure for the inside of the helmet that conveys the conditioned air all over the inside of the helmet to cool or heat the maximum area of the users head. Cooled or heated air is ducted into the rear of the helmet and flow up and around the users head, exiting above the users face to provide cooled or heated air fro breathing. The conditioned air can also be filtered with activated carbon to remove ...
Page 1 of 5
«StartPrev12345NextEnd»
