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2019
Automotive/​Transportation

Lighter by Replacing Aluminum with Iron

We believe to make cars lighter, the automotive industry needs to replace aluminum with iron.

The conventional wisdom says that is crazy.

Why would you replace a low density material with a higher density material? We just spent years and money converting parts from iron to aluminum. We are still working to do that.

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Sarah Jordan
Groveport, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 2334
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 26, 2019

Machine Learning Based Vehicle Diagnostics

Contemporary gasoline-powered vehicles use On-Board Diagnostics 2 (OBD2) to determine whether a vehicle is within emission standards. This is achieved by monitored certain parameters; e.g., catalytic converter operation, exhaust gas recirculation operation, etc. Rationality testing on sensors is also done; e.g., whether engine coolant temperature readings make sense. OBD2 is incapable of finding certain problems. For example,

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Bohdan Bodnar
Park Ridge, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 3091
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 30, 2019

Magnetic Direct Injector Pulser

GDI Magnetic Injector and Fuel Rail Solenoid Tester. The magnetic unit can test GDI injectors and the fuel rail pressure control solenoid, which can sometimes employ 14 to 24 volts and is also PWM controlled.

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Mandy Concepcion
Jersey City, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 1784
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 19, 2019

Magnetic Wiper for Cars

Windshield wipers are designed and made to remove rain, snow, ice and debris from a windshield. Most cars have two wipers on the windshield, and they may have one on the rear window and one on each headlight. A wiper generally consists of a metal arm; one end pivots,

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Anteneh Gashaw
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Votes: 4
Views: 3353
Automotive/​Transportation
May 23, 2019

MANT-A

The reason why we started this project is due to the mindset of the general public, that is changing towards a more responsible way of consuming and living; for the daily commute, we saw that people are slowly but surely preferring personal transportation instead of cars that are meant for multiple passengers and are mostly used by one person.

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Jacobo Podlipsky
Ciudad De México, Mexico
Votes: 4
Views: 2858
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 27, 2019

Manual Extension of Pickup Trunk for Road Safety and Space Utilization

According to AAA’s Foundation for Traffic Safety, poorly secured loads are responsible for more than 25,000 crashes and approximately 90 fatalities in developed countries each year. And on top of that, there are all those nonfatal injuries to drivers behind you and damage to their vehicles.

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Anteneh Gashaw
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Votes: 8
Views: 2013
Automotive/​Transportation
May 9, 2019

Mich

Commuting in megacities is still an unsettled issue and while population increases so does the restrictions and disapproval. For example, in New York City, among other problems “traffic congestion is causing damage to economic health to the tune of $20 billion a year.

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Armando Mercado
Lomas De Santa Fe, Mexico
Votes: 11
Views: 1763
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 25, 2019

Mobile Car Charger

Electric cars are limited as to the distance that they can be driven before complete battery failure; the average range is only about 100 miles. When the battery runs out of power the car is forced to stop and it is very hard to connect to a power supply for charging if the driver is in a remote area.

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Anteneh Gashaw
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Votes: 7
Views: 2387
Automotive/​Transportation
May 3, 2019

Moore Rotary Engine

A rotating internal combustion engine using spark or compression ignition manufactured with current metals/machining processes for motorcycles, automobiles, shipping, and aircraft. An attached compressor (twin screw) feeds air injectors, supplying the rotor chambers.

Pyramidal rotor chambers are placed around the rotor circumference allowing multiple firing impulses per revolution, with any design of rotor vanes, chambers,

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Maynard Moore
Austintown, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 2326
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 7, 2019

New Mechanism to Keep the Lenses of Camera Clean

Autonomous vehicles require multiple optical sensors, such as cameras or LIDAR, in the car’s body on all sides. Today, such sensors are mostly used for parking assistance.

In automated driving, the accurate function of these sensors is required to ensure safe driving. Contaminants such as dirt, dust, organic material and different phases of water (ice, rain, snow, etc.

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Anteneh Gashaw
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Votes: 8
Views: 2181
Automotive/​Transportation
May 10, 2019

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