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Enhanced Peripheral Detection Test-I (EPDT-I) Enhanced Peripheral Detection Test-II (EPDT-II)

Wayne State University researchers have teamed up with the Toyota Technical Center, a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA), to work on projects for TEMA's safety research center -- the Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC). One technology under development is a software program related to driver distraction: •Method...

Published: 11/11/2021 | Inventor(s): Li Hsieh, Richard Young, Sean Seaman

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Category(s): Software, Automotive & Transportation, Physical Sciences, Safety

Concussion Reduction Helmet

Wayne State University Researchers have designed a football helmet to reduce the likelihood of a cerebral concussion to the wearer during blunt impact with another player or the ground. The helmet shell and interior padding are tuned using a computer model of the head and helmet to reduce the strain experienced by the brain during impact. Commercial...

Published: 11/30/2023 | Inventor(s): Albert King, King-Hay Yang, Liying Zhang

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Category(s): Physical Sciences, Automotive & Transportation, Life Science, Medical Devices, Safety, Simulation & Modeling

Guidance and Control System for Under Actuated Marine Surface Vessels

WSU researchers have developed a guidance system that yields a faster convergence rate of the ship to its desired trajectory than existing systems. The new algorithm varies the radius in the guidance algorithm exponentially as opposed to linear variations in existing schemes. This was done to prevent the system from over-reacting for small cross track...

Published: 9/10/2021 | Inventor(s): Nabil Chalhoub, Nassim Khaled

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Category(s): Physical Sciences, Automotive & Transportation, Other, Software

Fuel Injector to Work as an Ionization Sensor and as an Injection Signal Detector in Electronically Controlled Fuel Injection Systems in Diesel and Direct Injection Gasoline Engines

Wayne State researchers have created an invention which uses one element in the engine, the fuel injector, to perform four tasks, injecting fuel, acting as an injection pulse detector, operating as a fuel injector malfunction detector and working as an ion sensor without modifying the fuel injector. Internal combustion engine control has become more...

Published: 12/5/2022 | Inventor(s): Fadi Estefanous

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Category(s): Electronics, Automotive & Transportation, Physical Sciences, Powertrain, Sensors, Other

Austenitic (Non-Magnetic) Structural Steel

Wayne State University research has yielded both a novel composition and a lower cost processing technique for the creation of austenitic non-magnetic structural steel. This steel has advantages that include a high work hardening rate, good corrosion resistance, combination of strength and ductility and good creep resistance. Use of this steel...

Published: 3/3/2020 | Inventor(s): Susil Putatunda

Keywords(s): Transportation

Category(s): Materials, Automotive & Transportation, High strength, Other, Physical Sciences, Building & Construction, Industrial & Manufacturing

Broad Temperature Range MIS Hydrogen Sensors

WSU researchers have developed hydrogen sensors that differ from previous devices by employing aluminum nitride as an insulator in a metal insulator semiconductor structure. These new structures show a marked specificity for hydrogen under a wide range of conditions. Several prototype sensors with various applications have been tested results are available...

Published: 3/3/2020 | Inventor(s): Flaminia Serina, Gregory Auner, Ka Yuen Simon Ng, Ratna Naik

Keywords(s): Device, Security

Category(s): Sensors, Physical Sciences, Automotive & Transportation, Other

A High Efficiency Booster for Automotive and Other Applications

WSU faculty developed a high efficiency booster useful in devices where the gas turbine is the primary source of power and in hybrid automotive engines. Boosters are currently used in hybrid automotive engines or in stationary plants for the purpose of increasing the power output of the gas turbine. It is generally accepted that a good power producing...

Published: 3/3/2020 | Inventor(s): Vladimar Sheyman, Mulchand Rathod

Keywords(s): Engine, Transportation

Category(s): Automotive & Transportation, Physical Sciences, Powertrain

New Vehicle Roof Interior Design Concepts for Occupant Neck Protection During Rollover Crashes

Researchers at the Bioengineering Center at WSU have developed an interior roof design that reduces the coefficient of friction (COF) between the head and the roof or reduces the COF between the padding and its supporting structure. Rollover crashes are the most hazardous crashes to the human cervical spine. It has been reported that the neck is the...

Published: 2/7/2022 | Inventor(s): Jingwen Hu, King-Hay Yang, Clifford Chou, Albert King

Keywords(s): Headliner, Roll_Over_Crashes

Category(s): Automotive & Transportation, Safety, Physical Sciences, Simulation & Modeling, Software