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2020
Automotive/​Transportation

Transit140

The invention is a pandemic-proof mass transportation system that more than doubles the capacity of the existing right of ways of present day subways and light rail systems and dramatically reduces trip times.

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Frans Koch
Ottawa, Canada
Votes: 1
Views: 1505
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 17, 2020

Ultra-Lightweight Automotive Lighting and Sensor Housings with Structural Capabilities

LED lighting technology is already prevalent in the Automotive Industry, taking on increasingly prominent aesthetic design as well as safety roles. Significantly increased lighting output, required to meet tightening insurance industry requirements, coupled with a proliferation of illuminated lamp features has already led to a top Tier-1 Lighting supplier executive to proclaim “Lamp weight has gone up exponentially!

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Michael Pickholz
Oxford, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 2213
Automotive/​Transportation
Apr 10, 2020

Urban Rover (Autonomous Housing Vehicle)

Urban Rover is an autonomous home platform for the city professional. Rovers are a new form of affordable housing, providing life's essentials in a comfortable yet mobile footprint. Through a subscription based model that provides connectivity and home utilities,

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Zane Liu
Cupertino, United States
Votes: 12
Views: 2570
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 25, 2020

ValueGauge

Introducing VALUEGAUGE, the first information display to enable motor vehicle drivers to truly save fuel and emissions and time, and avoid waste. ValueGauge consists of a microcomputer and electronic display in view of the vehicle operator, and connects to the vehicle Engine Control Module (ECM) to obtain vehicle speed and fuel use data.

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David B Smith
Monroe, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 1569
Automotive/​Transportation
Jul 2, 2020

Variable Volute Turbine

The VVT is a completely new, patented way of controlling turbine flow. It features a 720° volute that can be unwound by a flexible link system to 360°. The efficiency is stellar—beyond what any multi-vane VGT can do.
Conventional multi-vane VGT’s turn into impulse turbines when the vanes start to close and there goes the efficiency.

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Steve Arnold
Rancho Palos Verdes, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 2038
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 18, 2020

Vehicle Distance Warning and Signaling System (DWSS)

Vehicle Distance Warning and Signaling System (DWSS) is an improved version of the Dynamic Traffic Light (DTL) bearing SAE paper No: 980560 presented and published in 1998. The traditional brake signal on the rear of vehicles provides insufficient information which only informs a following-vehicle (FV) that its lead-vehicle (LV) is braking.

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Hamid Kashefy
Gatineau, Canada
Votes: 0
Views: 2080
Automotive/​Transportation
Jul 1, 2020

Vehicle Threat Detection System (VTDS)

Global Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles depends heavily on safety performance, VTDS rapidly detects threats and delivers 10X safety enhancement.

Autonomous vehicle (AV) control systems are challenged to ‘see’ and respond to the road, especially in unexpected situations, and struggle to mimic human abilities. This challenge is met by AVs having more sensors, algorithms becoming more complex,

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John Aceti
New Hope, United States
Votes: 5
Views: 2551
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 29, 2020

Video Helper System for Autocamper

Video Helper System has several use options, namely:

During the movement of the autocamper, the high design of its van disrupts the visibility of the situation in front of it, for this, the function of a “transparent” car becomes possible by using the front camera mounted on it, i.e.

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Evgeniy Zudin
Buffalo Grove, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 2142
Automotive/​Transportation
May 3, 2020

Wall Intengrated Oxy-fuel Combustion for Piston Engines

Even with the most efficient engines on the market today a substantial portion of the energy content of fuel is lost via exhaust gases and engine cooling. What is proposed herein is a method of minimizing these losses by using the water in water emulsified fuel to absorb the majority the heat.

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Enock N Segawa
Grand Rapids, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 2282
Automotive/​Transportation
Jul 2, 2020

Waste Energy Harvesting for Coolant Control Valve

Background:

Presently, all the coolant control valves (CCV) are used on engine/vehicle applications to precisely control the coolant flow, by using electric actuators. These actuators require electric energy as an input during continuous operation.

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Raghunath Paralkar
Troy, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 2577
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 9, 2020

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