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2016
Automotive/​Transportation

Crash Avoiding Automobile

The Red vehicle shown in these slides is a totally custom, one of a kind automobile called Freedom1.

Freedom1 has a radically tapered front end , including the bumper, the hood and the nose. If this vehicle is about to collide with another vehicle or structure, all the driver must do is steer 6"

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Rich Franklin
Manhattan Beach, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 2297
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 29, 2016

Decongesting City Roads By Making Elevated Paths For Electric Bikes

Many metropolitan cities around the world face traffic woes. The traffic causes loss of time, money, causes mental and physical tiredness, reduces work efficiency and causes road rage besides increasing air and noise pollution in the city. Majority of traffic is seen during rush hours in and around the business areas.

Current approaches to counter this are:

• Road widening,

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Kuldeep Singh
Pune, India
Votes: 1
Views: 2932
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 29, 2016

Demicar, a Type of Car/Motorcycle Hybrid

People around the world use cars and motorcycles every day. Cars are large, heavily sealed machines that isolate their occupants from the surrounding environment. Waiting in traffic or avoiding near accidents can quickly anger car drivers, partly thanks to the drivers’ detachment from their surroundings. Motorcycles are very open, but are relatively dangerous. Anything,

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Kevin Tagoe
Savannah, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 2842
Automotive/​Transportation
May 21, 2016

Design And Development of Lightweight High Specific Strength And Stiffness Dent Free Fibre Metal Laminates For Automotives

The automotive industry faces many challenges, including increased global competition, the need for higher-performance vehicles, a reduction in costs and stringent environmental and safety requirements. The materials used in automotive engineering play key roles in overcoming these issues: ultimately lighter materials mean lighter vehicles and lower emissions.

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Sandeep Sharma
Erode, India
Votes: 5
Views: 3951
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 16, 2016

Design And Fabrication Of Foot Steered Electric Three Wheeler For The Physically Challenged

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

The number of disabled persons with limb loss in India was estimated to be 2,17,83,481 during July to December, 2011. They formed about 1.8 percent of the total population.

There were 1,285,000 persons in the U.S.A living with limb loss in 2009. The prevalence rate in 2009 was 4.9 per 1,000 persons

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Nagarajan Ramesh
Thirumangalam, India
Votes: 3
Views: 3127
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 28, 2016

Design Of Circular Radiator

A cooling system in automobile is used to remove excess heat produced in the internal combustion engines. Most automobile cooling system consists of the following components: radiator, water pump, cooling fan, pressure cap and thermostat. Of these components, radiator is the most prominent part of the cooling system, because it transfers the heat from the entire system.

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Christopher Charles
Tirupur, India
Votes: 0
Views: 3479
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 30, 2016

Design Of Energy Efficient Transportation System Using Floatation Technique

Railway is one of the best modes of public transportation in the world. It offers more comfortable and fastest journey to the people. Rail is used to reduce the frictional force between the load and track.

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Arulanantha Samy Santhiyagu
Chennai, India
Votes: 5
Views: 2865
Automotive/​Transportation
May 8, 2016

Diesel Engine with Waste Heat Powered Supercharger

The efficiency of diesel engines can be increased if the energy in the exhaust gases were better utilized. The invention (USPTO 8,210,136) shown here allows the hot combustion gases to expand a second time within the engine. The power from that secondary expansion is used by the other cylinder’s supercharger.

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Paul Howard
Reston, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 3125
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 28, 2016

Direct Linear To Rotary Drive System (DL2R)

DIRECT LINEAR TO ROTARY DRIVE SYSTEM (DL2R)

THIS INVENTION PROVIDES A MEANS OF TRANSFERRING LINEAR MOTION INTO ROTARY MOTION IN AN ORDERLY FACTION WHERE THE OUTPUT IS CONSTANT, AND NOT ATTENUATED BY POWER LOSSES AND FLUCTUATIONS.

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Walter Leser
Denver, United States
Votes: 5
Views: 8042
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 14, 2016

Displacement Hull with Integrated Propulsion

I have devised a solution to the hull speed phenomenon, a 150-year-old problem in marine hydrodynamics, which imposes an effective limit on the cruising speed of vessels having displacement mode monohull forms.

I have been granted U.S. Patent 8,991,326 in recognition of my innovation.

Schematic drawings are attached.

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Robert Jansen
Anaheim, United States
Votes: 5
Views: 3839
Automotive/​Transportation
May 14, 2016

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