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2020
Automotive/​Transportation

Extractor Tools

Product Overview

The extractor is a multi-use, car-crash survival tool designed to aid a passenger trapped inside a vehicle. The product’s numerous features include:

A built-in razor for cutting the seat belt if trapped in a situation where the belt cannot be unbuckled

A built-in glass breaker to break out car windows when trapped.

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Jesse Morgan
Ft Myers, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 1570
Automotive/​Transportation
May 9, 2020

FlexiDrive (New Concept Electric Motor –Alternator )

Improve the power to weight ratio, efficiency and increase the life of motor and alternator is of paramount importance in design. In order to do that; I have successfully developed a new concept electric machine that provides up to 50% improvement in power to weight ratio and efficiency, after spending several years to research.

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Diji Jayakaran
Ernakulam, India
Votes: 5
Views: 2759
Automotive/​Transportation
Apr 15, 2020

Flying RIG

Potholes and bumps in the road won’t matter anymore. You can replace your car, boat, snowmobile, and troop-carrier with a single vehicle. Though the long dreamed-of flying car has eluded us for decades, by modifying our vision of a flying car, we can make it a reality.

Consider a plane coming in for a landing.

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Ronald Czerwinski
Northville, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 1591
Automotive/​Transportation
Jul 2, 2020

Frame Steered Chassis Virtual Pivot Steering (VPS) Timoney Steering System

Frame steered construction vehicles, Articulated Dump Trucks (ADT), Wheeled Loaders, are known to be unstable at elevated speeds presenting safety/productivity concerns. Literature on this issue deals only with measures such as control systems to reduce instability.

The cause of instability, rear wheel steer, is not addressed.

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Eanna Timoney
Navan, Ireland
Votes: 7
Views: 5187
Automotive/​Transportation
May 22, 2020

Freedom Seat

People in wheelchairs can't currently travel on airplanes in their own wheelchairs. Airlines are reluctant to give up the real estate and revenue on their aircraft. They must transfer twice from their wheelchair to an aisle-chair then to the airline seat in a difficult and dehumanizing process.

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Hank Scott
Breckenridge, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 1842
Automotive/​Transportation
Apr 10, 2020

Friction Machine

The purpose of the work: to increase and improve the quality of parts and assembly of gearboxes of vehicles, reduce the labor intensity and cost of manufacturing the gearbox, increase productivity in the assembly operation.

Project objective. To elaborate: the base table for mounting of all equipment, drive rotation, the bearing support for clamping the chuck,

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Anastasia Samoilova
Москва, Russia
Votes: 0
Views: 1574
Automotive/​Transportation
May 15, 2020

FRWC

FRWC is an autonomous drone car that can effectively remove water and snow in outdoor courts and repair potholes in the field, improving the time-consuming manual repair method and providing the players a safe court environment at all times.

FRWC utilizes the electric heating plates to melt the snow in the court,

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Yu-hsing Wu
New Taipei City, Taiwan
Votes: 0
Views: 1467
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 28, 2020

Fuel Agnostic Zero Emission Engine Technology [FAZE]

The Major Propulsion Problems:

internal-combustion-engine [ICE] and turbojet-engines pollute

ICE are fuel-inefficient in most operating regimes where they spend most of their time, resulting in high amounts of pollutants and CO2 emissions

turbo-engines are noisy, fuel-hungry, expensive with limited applications

most municipal/crop/forest waste is buried/dumped in oceans which is polluting.

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Milan Krupa
Lake Elsinore, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3336
Automotive/​Transportation
Jul 3, 2020

GEAR-Steel

Vehicle manufacturers are faced with a difficult task of significantly improving fuel economy and safety while maintaining a competitive position in the market. This can be accomplished, among other things, by utilizing higher strength steel for cars and trucks. Newly developed high strength steel for car powertrain and transmission components (GEAR-Steel) can help accomplish just that.

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Gregory Vartanov
Toronto, Canada
Votes: 1
Views: 3205
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 13, 2020

Guide Dog GPS System

For decades, seeing eye dogs have been used by visually impaired or blind individuals. These highly trained dogs specialize in keeping the user safe from obstacles and hazards during their daily lives when they travel. While these exceptional animals are a valuable companion to the user, they cannot assist in directing the user during these activities.

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Chuck Pfeiffer
Red Lion, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 1950
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 9, 2020

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