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2011
Transportation

Third Eye for Crane Operators

Crane operator is so far removed from the ground and the load, he cannot see any obstacles that may be in the way. The spotter helps spot for the operator by keeping a watch for any problems and radioing instructions to the crane operator. With constant radio contact, a crane can transport heavy equipment with ease.

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Thennarasan Ranganathan
Chennai, India
Votes: 0
Views: 4430
Transportation
Mar 3, 2011

Tire with Segmented Belt for Improved Performance

FEAMAC is a software package developed and released by NASA-GRC for the design and analysis of structures composed of arbitrary multiphase composite materials be they ceramic, metallic or polymer based and continuously or discontinuously reinforced. FEAMAC is unique in that it functions as a constitutive module within traditional finite element analysis (FEA) packages to enable efficient, multiscale,

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Mahmoud Assaad
Akron, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 5042
Transportation
Apr 11, 2011

Tow Truck Load Distribution System

Most tow trucks now being manufactured include means of lifting and towing vehicles by engaging the tires, axle, or suspension of the towed vehicle, lifting and securing the towed vehicle to these means before transporting the towed vehicle from the load site. These means are called wheel lifts or underlifts.

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Peter Weller
Redondo Beach, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 9096
Transportation
May 18, 2011

Transformation Truck Box Cover

Covering the box of a pick-up truck causes you to sacrifice the function for form. You may have to remove the accessory when you need to perform different tasks. This creates a need to storage of the accessory when it is not on the truck.

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Gavin Wolchina
Calgary, Canada
Votes: 0
Views: 6079
Transportation
Jun 6, 2011

Turbojet Engine Protection Grill

All aeroplane Turbojet engines have no protective grill in the front to prevent any foreign particles from being sucked into the engine when the aeroplane is in motion.

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Deepak G
Bangalore, India
Votes: 1
Views: 7195
Transportation
May 13, 2011

Ultralight Based Electric Powered Lift Body

Safety in small aircraft has been an issue since the beginning of flight, especially for lightweight engine powered personal airplanes also known as ultralight/microlight aircrafts. Currently these ultralights are rapidly transforming into high performance aircraft for recreational use with a very respectable speed and range. Electric powered ultralights have started to replace gasoline engines for these small aircraft,

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Alessandro Negri
Medford, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 6974
Transportation
Jun 30, 2011

Unmanned Electric Vehicle

This design responds to concerns regarding electric car solutions (battery, mileage per charge, charging the batteries.. etc.) it also responds to congestion problems and provides mobility to underage, elderly, handicapped as well as any individual who is interested in arriving to their destination in the fastest way possible without bothering with driving instructions, directions,

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Amal Kassab
Montreal, Canada
Votes: 7
Views: 4767
Transportation
Jun 28, 2011

V-Rail Metro

Congested urban areas need mass transit the worst and are by far the most difficult to introduce mass transit to. This is do to existing development, high land cost, right-off-way issues, unpopularity of imminent domain, etc.

The elevating of trains and monorails for mass transit are nothing new,

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Steven Dodson
Gresham, United States
Votes: 7
Views: 6198
Transportation
Jun 30, 2011

V-Twin Powered Co-axial Helicopter

My idea is for a co-axial light helicopter/UAV powered by two V-twin engines driving gears attacthed to co-axial shafts and also driving a swiveling tail rotor either through gears and shafts or an electric motor.

The advantage to this system would be relatively inexpensive and abundant engines and parts and easy to learn controls. Also,

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Jonathan Taub
Canoga Park, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 5517
Transportation
Apr 19, 2011

Vacuum AVIA Wing and Propeller

We submitted the patent application for this invention on March 18, 2003 under ? 4192/01/-- 003.

But all experts have told us, that it is idiocy: low pressure inside a wing makes nothing - elevating force is a result of a difference of pressure around a wing.

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Ia Lashauri
Tbilisi, Georgia
Votes: 1
Views: 6021
Transportation
Jun 14, 2011

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