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Electrical Junction Box Wire Router
This paper proposes to improve the electrical junction box installation. A new method of putting a printed circuit board (PCB) with Terminal block called “Electrical Junction Box Wire Router” is placed inside the Electrical Junction Box.
PEUGEOT BOXER is a diesel engine 2500 cc with maximum 80 hp with max speed of 120 km/hr which is building in an ambulance car with power steering. This model was produced in 1998, this car is front drive axis with engine in transverse position.
But this engine is rarely in my country.
THE ULTIMATE ADVANCED ACV (HOVERCRAFT)
This machine encompasses advanced technology in all aspects of Hovercraft Technology.
1...The Lift System utilizes a Skirt Finger Design which reduces surface contact and provides for surface following attributes which simultaneously reduces the power required to sustain the air cushion and lowers frictional resistance.
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Extreme Power Free-Piston Engine
6.0 hp/lb - Highest efficiency - Small & Robust
The pistons of free-piston engines transfer the combustion pressure directly into hydraulic pressure, without a crankshaft mechanism. They are therefore inherently very simple, robust, light and efficient. Their major drawback is the insufficient control of the piston velocity and compression ratio,
170 mpg Hydraulic Hybrid
Lower costs - 0 to 60 in 4 sec. - Travel 1,000 miles
Conventional cars have powerful drivetrains for fast acceleration and brakes to stop the car. They are heavy, costly, space consuming and waste a lot of energy. Only 1/6 of the energy is utilized to drive the vehicle.
Large Hydrostatic Wind Turbine
Lower cost - High efficiency - Longer life
The energy of wind is free, but the costs of the turbines transmitting the energy into electricity are too high to be competitive with conventional ways to produce electricity.
270 kts. High Speed Helicopter
310 mph - Lower costs - Higher payload
Conventional helicopters reach speeds of 150 kt. (175 mph) because of the loss of lift forces at the retreating rotor blade at higher speeds. Counter-rotating rotors prevent the effects of the losses, but their mechanisms are very complex, heavy and increase the air drag significantly.
Last year in the summer of 2013, 15 children died in the backseat of a hot car. Accidentally forgotten by their parent, they died alone and confused, terrified, and crying for someone - anyone - to come and get them. My invention, the Backseat Baby Alarm, is a device to prevent these needless deaths from happening.
Aquapod – a personal care domestic system
This system, based in a plastic cylinder inside a square area, allows in a minimum space, 1.20 by 1.20 m, height 2.40 to perform in total ergonomic protection, all functions related to personal care. While the user will stay in the cylinder,
The essential need for life-support is electrical power, water and oxygen supply, processed from the soil around. While we easily can generate heat in several ways, the cooling of it is quite a different story. No problem on Earth to water and air, but Mars has no liquids on its surface,
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