Transportation 2010
M5 Plume - ecologic car
M5 Plume
characteristics:
Platform: Hybrid car with a Hydrogen (H2) engine and an electromagnetic levitating system (Maglev).
Small family car/ SUV
Max speed: 200 km/h
Driving range: 500 km
It's a Train! It's a Car! The New M5 Plume uses the ultimate technology of a maglev train ( magnetic levitating system) in a combination with an ecological hydrogen car and opens the new boundaries for the automotive industry in the year 2050.
You can use the M5 Plume as a light and economic hydrogen car and take advantage of free and comfortable driving and go to everywhere in the city or ...
Increasing Effective Capacity of Highways
The US and world economy is impeded by the slowness of traffic during rush hours. Reducing the traffic jam problem, on the existing roads infrastructure can have a dramatic improvement on many aspects of our lives. This design idea can do just that using smarter Brake Lights or by mounting a small simple device at back and front of vehicles not more expensive than a TV remote control.
The more devices like that on the road the better the traffic will shape, even without requiring all vehicles to have the device installed at once.
If you observe traffic patterns ...
ECO shipping improvement
After talking to people that worked on Loading Docks I was aware of the 30-40 minute time period to unload a Trailer if all goes well. So I took my experience from view Cargo Planes in the Military and came up with a new version that reduces the unloading time to about 3 minutes. I have the same design for a Rail Car because some factories use both systems. The Truck shows Cargo with the side Door-system fully opened,yellow lines are where the side panel was,the rear view to the right has the Folding-Door in Green and starting to ...
Regenerative braking bike front wheel
Imagine riding your bicycle down the sidewalk at 20mph. Just as you approach a driveway entrance to a store, a car turns from the street into the driveway, cutting you off. You brake safely to a stop, and because of your new Regenerative Braking front wheel, you can press a button and bring your bike up to over 15mph without any pedaling or external energy !
This invention is real and you can ride a prototype today ! It uses state-of-the art hydraulics to store braking energy for later release. The goal is to ultimately make it a retrofit ...
Grail Engine
Grail Engine Technologies corporation has developed a revolutionary two-stroke internal combustion engine (ICE) that achieves high fuel efficiency (100+ mpg) and uses multiple fuel sources (i.e. gasoline, diesel, hydrogen, natural gas propane - electronically controlled on-the-fly)
Two-stroke ICE designs have been in production for generations but are being discontinued due to emissions. Our unique proprietary design operates without cross contamination of oil and fuel within the combustion chamber or exhaust cycle – the first of its kind. With improved volumetric efficiency, utilizing the “Miller Cycle” and HCCI (Homogeneous charged compressed ignition) simultaneously, our engine will produce more power than ...
The VTOL Pulsed Turbine Transvector Jet Concept
The Pulsed Turbine Transvector Jet Propulsion concept is a recently developed adaptation to the Pulsed Turbine Rotor Engine and The Pulsed Turbine Jet Propulsion concept that was introduced to the 2008 Create the Future Design Contest. Please click on hyperlink below:
http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=1953
The transvector jet principle with optional water spray/steam thrust booster was envisioned to ensure ample thrust to vertically launch a VTOL jet propelled vehicle and speed up its transition to horizontal flight. This innovative idea could expedite the vehicle’s transition to horizontal flight from a vertical launch and consume less conventional fuel in the process.
...Multi-Grain Expandable Vortex Hybrid Rocket Motor
Space flight, satellite communication, and global navigation have become ubiquitous parts of our lives. The uses for space technology grow with each passing day, and there is a pressing need to continuously innovate the ways in which we access space. Typically orbit is reached using solid or liquid rocket motors; however, a combination of these two technologies, a "hybrid" motor shows great promise. The development of hybrids is a subject of increasing interest for any industry needing safe, high thrust rockets. Because of their inherent safety, reliability, and environmental friendliness, hybrid motors are receiving more attention from government, industry, ...
Solar Powered Aircraft Engine
The Zero Pollution Aircraft Engine© (ZPAE©) from Massive Nibble© will be the world’s first solar-powered engine targeting both the private and commercial aircraft markets. The ZPAE© is a new, much more efficient Stirling heat engine configuration that can be rapidly and precisely throttled. It can make power with any heat. Solar, renewable fuels, bio-diesel, etc. The ZPAE© is a very simple design that will be clean, quiet, compact and nearly vibration-free. No longer will people who live near airports have to lose sleep because of noisy engines. Passengers and crew will be able to enjoy quiet, relaxing trips, with ...
Unipersonal electric vehicle
ZigZag is a unipersonal totally electric three wheeled vehicle, conceived by the need for environmentally friendly transport for the city and different places where this problem is not entirely satisfied. The product can be easy manufactured with purchasable technology, because the frame is made of aluminium alloy 6161. This material is commonly used on bicycles, giving to the product low weight at high strength -- very important atribute for the electric mobility and can suport persons up to 100kg (ZigZag mass 35Kg). Other parts are standard pieces, the shell is only two parts that assembly easily with only four screws ...
ON THE GO EV Charging
Considering EV to be the cleanest source of transportation in city conditions, they seem to be the future of cars.
The main problem that they suffer is of short battery charge, limited to about 200 miles. And for charging them back, they have to be plugged to electric supply at base stations which causes time wastage and irritation to the users since they have to lave the comfort of their car and stand waiting to get charged. Also it limits the car's range and use for long distance city travelers.
I have proposed a solution to the problem by ...
Chain-linked variable transmission
Friction based variable transmissions, in the form of belts and cones, have been in existence for many years. One successful new version, based around ball bearings and shaped steel surfaces, is the NuVinci drive. However, all friction based transmissions suffer from mechanical inefficiency and limited power capability. Innovators have been trying to develop a chain-based variable transmission for over a century. Many concepts have been patented, but all are complex and delicate mechanisms unsuited to mass manufacture; none is in production.
The VariCruz is a remarkably simple chain-linked variable gear transmission that is built from a handful of simple ...
Omni directional holonomic spherical robot
This idea basically solve the transportation problem in todays era and traffic jam problems and main benifit of this wheel concept is to move in each and every direction on surface.in today's era simple conventional wheels are used which do not have 3 DOF.this concept can be applied in all vehicle.we can use this concept in future cars and robotic appliances.it has four wheel mechanism having spherical wheel and point contact with the surface so the turning capability of this mechanism is higher.
the mechanism contains three basic parts are base(chassis),spherical wheel assembly and couplings.
the internal designs are ...
Monorail Air Cushion Ultra high Speed Train
Monorail Air Cushion Ultra High Speed (MAC-UHS) Transportation System
Description
Using a combination of well-known and proven technologies, a highly cost-effective and innovative solution to ultra high-speed passenger train transportation is presented. The proposed Monorail Air Cushion (MAC) system uses lightweight vehicles built with aircraft technologies, propelled via electric linear motors, riding on wheels at low speed and on an air cushion at high speed, straddling a modular elevated monorail track. When compared to existing conventional high-speed trains, this concept would lower the cost of infrastructure and equipment, and decrease the time to build a transportation network by ...
TourEngine - Efficient Split-Cycle ICE
TourEngine™ is a patented split-cycle combustion engine with substantial efficiency gain and reduction in noxious emissions over common engines. Measurements from a running gasoline-based prototype, developed by Tour Engine Inc. (www.tourengine.com), and simulations done by independent consultants predict the performance leap. The unique opposed-cylinder configuration of TourEngine™ allows superior thermal management and an efficient gas transfer compared to other split-cycle designs. Notably, the TourEngine™ design is based on current cylinder/piston technology reducing barrier for its adoption, and having similar productions costs. TourEngine™ presents an opportunity to cost effectively revolutionize the way IC engines are built, increasing their efficiency and ...
CFD Model: Cardiovascular Stenting
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Model to Predict Changes in Velocity properties in Stented Carotid Artery
Abstract:
Atherosclerosis is a disease that narrows, thickens, hardens and restructures a blood vessel due to substantial plaque deposit. In the Carotid Artery, the decision to treat using endarterectomy and stenting is determined by the velocity as measured by Doppler flow in the common Carotid Artery. The measured Doppler velocity as compared with the contra-lateral side has been correlated with the degree of stenosis. In some patients, the Doppler velocity after stenting is equivalent to or higher than before treatment. The hypothesis we ...
Try-brid Vehicle
Try-brid Vehicle
Human/Electric/Wind Powered Bicycle
This solution seeks to address a multitude of economic and ecological issues by stimulating development in developing countries by providing local low voltage electricity for lighting, cellular and satellite communications, laptops and other small electronic devices. Currently 1.7 billion people worldwide are without electricity for basic human needs and economic development. According to a recent study by Lighting Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has a rural electricity access rate of 2%. Among the poorest of poor, lighting represents 10-15% of the total house income while providing little in return. Mobile phones are quickly becoming a means ...
DTV Shredder
The DTV Shredder is an ultra compact all terrain vehicle. A 14hp engine powers two tank tracks over any terrain imaginable. Sand, snow and ice, rocks or dirt, the shredder can handle it all at speeds of up to 30 mph!
With a footprint just 34" x 17" x14" the shredder is small enough to fit in the trunk of your car. This small size allows it to travel along narrow trails that would typically only be off limits for larger vehicles. Weighing in at under 100 lbs, the shredder is also extremely light weight.
Riding the ...
Verticopter: new & realistic STOVL aircraft
Garrow Aircraft LLC released in 2008 its unique and innovative aircraft design, called the Verticopter®, literally “Vertical Wing”, which is optimized for niche markets such as Aerial Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Border Patrol, News Coverage and VIP Transport.
The Verticopter® is a new convertiplane that is highly scalable from toys, to drones, UAVs and to manned vehicles and will turn your runway "into a thing of the past." Capable of VTOL or STOVL and very high cruise speeds, it serves those markets more efficiently than any helicopter.
It is more than just a CGI concept as the proof-of-concept has been flying ...
Aircraft Fuel Tank Modification
January 4, 2010
Proposed Airplane Fuel Tank Modification
The basic concept for the modification is a series of pressurized rectangular pouches of blastproof acrylic fabric, such as Kevlar, which are affixed (epoxied?) to the top and bottom outer surfaces of the plane’s wing fuel tanks, as well as on the central fuel tank in the bottom center of the fuselage.
The pouches contain dry powder AFFF-UL flame retardant and a chemical propellant to initiate a rapid chain reactive gas (CO2) expansion, activating dispersal of the chemical through flap actuator-triggered automated nozzles on the pouches in the event ...
Rotary Stirling-Cycle Combustion Engine
* Here is a product that enables movement of people and goods from one place to another.
* A plug-in hybrid vehicle requires an on-board system to recharge a battery. The system could be a fuel cell stack or a combustion engine. Unlike an engine which directly drives the vehicle, such an engine does not require much torque. It can be either an external combustion engine or an internal combustion engine.
* The Rotary Stirling-Cycle Engine is a combustion engine which can be in a rotary Stirling configuration in a rotary IC configuration. It provides smoother operation ...
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