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Personal safety has become an issue of importance for everyone, but especially for women. Violence against women is a persistent problem and remains a largely neglected issue. Whether walking on city streets or using public transport, going to work women and girls are subject to threat of sexual harassment and violence.
HOW ECW WORKS:
ECW functions like an elephant trunk, but, instead of a nostril, a cows tongue type device, or, mini car wash.
ECW, arm movement, functions via well know technology, such as 3D printing and robotics, guided by color and by auto exterior CAD details ~
Several incidents of rape, molestation, robbery, and physical assault have put women in India in an insecure position. The human trafficking has made both women and children feel bad against their country. Our project will overcome these crimes to the maximum extent and contribute a part for crime free India.
CORROSION UNDER INSULATION is an extremely common occurrence and makes up a huge chunk of pipeline maintenance costs. Even though we know about CUI and understand what causes it, the struggle remains to prevent corrosion and mitigate its effects. The corrosion occurs as a result of moisture build-up under the insulation. Without a way to evaporate,
This machine is based on gravity and potential energy formula. As per the sketch a heavy weight will be attached with a scale and a pulley + generator will work as a input source. Though the energy generated by this system will not be sufficient so an initial input will work to start the device.
The Compact Personal Aircraft or CPA (Patent Pending) is the embodiment of the future Air-Taxi. A novel improvement over its ancestor the co-planar multi-copter, the CPA may achieve up to a five fold increase in both flight time and fuel economy during horizontal, non-hover flight maneuvers.
We all know that the pollution rate is increasing day by day. Every day a vehicle with much reduced pollution rate is released but still the rate of pollution is still the same. That is because of the increased traffic and the vehicle smoke. Automobile engineers have an aim; make vehicles but make no harm.
TITLE: Linear Motion Wiper System for Buses
Windshield wipers play a key role in assuring the driver's safety during precipitation of water and heavy rainfall .Most of the conventional wiper systems which have been used in buses until now do not completely wipe off the rain droplets still leaving blind spots at the top corner filleted portions.
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