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contest/2012
2012
Liberator
Turbo Enhanced Intake/ Exhaust V-diodes
Innovation pertains to enhancement tuning of intake and exhaust systems while improving fuel economy for combustion engines utilizing multi-cyclonic vortex action. Additionally, performance of the vehicle is enhanced while reducing particulate contaminates associated with the burning of fossil fuels.
Rockets utilized by NASA, etc. utilize an antiquated ignitiion system, requiring a chain of events to occur to obtain ignition. (Safe-and-Arm device to rotate to "arm," electric impulse given, ignites propellant pellets, which ignite initiator propellant grain, which ignites the igniter propellant grain, which ignites the motor propellant grain.
Background and scope of invention
The invention deals with enhancement of mileage of bikes and cars by modifying the surface texture of the vehicle as well as the driver. We present two variants of jackets here:
•A jacket for cars for improving mileage.
•Jacket combo pack for driver and bike for improving bike mileage.
Design and Development of Suitable Custom Made, Compact, Economical and Environmentally Friendly Fire Fighting Pumping Unit.
It consists of
Primary Pump (Electrical)
Backup Pump (Diesel engine driven)
Pressure Compensating/Jockey Pump (Electrical)
HYPOTHERMIA PREVENTION PACK
On June, 14th 2003, 11 of 17 passengers died when they were cast overboard in Tillamook Oregon. The Taki-Tooo was a small passenger vessel that capsized just offshore. Note: in this disaster, drowning didn’t cause the deaths, but hypothermia and shock of cold Pacific Northwest ocean temperatures were the true causes of death.
This system consists basically of a low power and low cost equipment called “Green Box” (Fig. 1), that can remain within a house power installation near the switch breakers’ box and can be used to monitor, assess and control the power used by the home appliances.
The main advantage is that once it is installed,
One of the most valuable pieces of unused, government-owned real estate in southern California is the Pacific Electric Right-of-Way -- a now trackless Red Car trolley corridor running from Watts Towers in south Los Angeles (near the Metro Blue and Green light rail alignments) to the Orange County seat in Santa Ana, 24 miles southeast.
Big FootTM is a totally new vacuum cleaner nozzle in concept and appearance. It attaches with the standard one and one-quarter inch tapered fitting. It is designed specifically to clean non-porous floors, such as wood, linoleum, concrete, paver bricks, etc. Its valve can reduce the airflow for cleaning thin mats and some carpets.
Every day we receive calls to our mobile phones where we don’t know the exact location of the person calling.
My idea is when we receive the call from an unknown person we can track that person from where he is calling through GPRS navigation system and Google maps in our mobile phone.
It is very simple.
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