Method of Roadway Construction for Embedding EV Highway Charging Capability

Method of Roadway Construction for Embedding EV Highway Charging Capability     Dec. 29, 2012

Application of roadway composite (example, asphalt or concrete aggregate) with a strip of conductive impurity that is applied side to side as the composite is poured providing a back and forth ribbon like pattern on the final surface.  This conductive ribbon can be continuous on the road surface, or broken at intervals of example 1 mile.  A constant current induced in the ribbon will induce an electromagnetic field so that a vehicle travelling above the roadway can inductively leach charge while travelling.

Roadsurface with impure conductive ribbon inlaid. 

Methods include but not limited to:

* bulk asphalt laying with channeling by steam roller followed by impurity pouring or installation

* integrated roadway installer with integrated impurity deposition

* pre-manufactured impurity film applied prior to final surface pouring

Mark Wright.

Method and Apparatus for Detecting Water Turbidity and Pollution in Gas Environments (Smog, smoke, soot, etc.)

Using multiple barcodes, an image detector, and barcode detection can be a method to distinguish increasing degrees of turbidity in liquid or impinged clarity in the air or a gas chamber.

Turbid, polluted, or insufficiently treated water or liquid will decrease the clarity of the media.  The same occurs when smoke, soot, or other pollution impinges gaseous media.

Barcodes, 2D barcodes, QR codes are used through scanning to detect embedded data for tagging purposes.  The process of scanning and identifying the codes requires pattern recognition.  Thus regardless of the pattern, finer granularity will be harder to detect except in bright light conditions.  This affect can be taken advantage of by having two or more codes, either separately printed, or superimposed on one another such that the smallest pattern that can be easily discerned under a particular brightness of light will tell how clear the media is.

The following pictures show a representation of three patterns that are QR or 2D Barcodes that would be placed in the media for pattern recognition.

 Separate images.

 Superimposed images.

The size and pattern would be chosen so that differing ease of detection under controlled, calibrated, or known lighting conditions would indicate the clarity of the medium.  Detection of the smallest patterns would only occur under the clearest conditions.

-- Mark Wright.

Automotive Braking Energy Recovery Mechanism

Apparatus and method to recover breaking energy from a vehicle incorporating a flywheel on either the differential mechanism or a wheel or both with a method to reintroduce the recovered energy back into driving the vehicle.  The recovery of the energy can be accomplished without conversion to an intermediate medium like electricity.

By having an inefficient clutch mechanism on a flywheel, continuous motion will impart some energy into rotating this flywheel.  A connection made to the braking system would cause a complete disengaging of the clutch from the flywheel upon the application of the brake.  The use of a counter hydraulic or similar system with a purge valve would cause the engaging of the flywheel to the motion system on the release of the brake for a preset period of time.  This would cause the stored energy in the flywheel to assist in re-accelerating the vehicle.  On full purge which would be programmed to be within a few seconds, the clutch would revert back to the inefficient (partial application) mode.

MW

3D Data Presentation and Information Storage

There are some patterns that with a slight blurring of the optical field can be made to appear 3D to human vision.   The Windows desktop pattern, "Greenstone" is such a pattern.  If you tile this pattern then look at it with a slightly blurred focus, it becomes a very clear 3D background.  Now imagine if instead of a tiled stone pattern, this was actually a pattern of things: books, buildings, stones on the beach, etc.  Now put some data tags on each of these structures.  You could "file" a lot of data for very quick visual cataloging or retrieval using such a storage technique.  You could also hide some data in a field of noise.

Food Replicator

Ok, not really a Star Trek Food Replicator.  But close.

Step 1:  Package food: meat, vegetables,  in sous vide packaging with either refrigerator-readable 2d bar codes or RFID tags.  These would be sold frozen.  They can be purchased and loaded into specially configured freezers-cookers. Requirements: standard packaging; automation readable labeling; appliance for storage (more requirements on this to follow); supplier of said packaged foods
Step 2. Based on a selected recipe, the appliance would select the appropriate packages from the freezer section.  These would be cooked sous vide for the appropriate serving time.  Requirements: appliance that can catalog, select vacuum packaged food; requirement to sous-vide cook said packaged food; ability to cook several food packages potentially at different cooking times; ability to open and serve different food packages onto serving plate.

Differences from Star Trek:
* food takes a long time to cook -- you need to select in advance
* food does not get created from nothing -- you need good wholesome ingredients here
* food tastes really good :-)

Hidden High End Equipment Wi-Fi Security

A security module that could be incorporated into high value audio or camera, or automotive or other equipment.  The module would incorporate a Wi-Fi engine, such as Microchip MRF24WB0M radio and PIC microcontroller, and "when triggered" searches for an open Wi-Fi network and then sends information about itself such as gateway IP address, product code, etc.

Initialization (several ways):
1. none
2. connection to home network

Alarm trigger (several ways):
1. none -- always sends data to subscription driven cloud server run by alarm company
2. disconnection from default 'home' network

Alarm service:
* when the triggered unit reaches an open Wi-Fi network with internet access it can send information allowing police to trace location of the unit -- something like a LoJack, but lower cost, but time to recovery is dependant on time for unit to get to an open network

Solar Charger Car Cover

A car cover integrated with solar cells on the top, ideally flexible cells, such as from powerfilmsolar.com.  Such car cover will have an integrated power inverter that would allow connection to the regular mains input (110VAC or 220VAC, as applicable) of an electric car.  This wouldn't charge a car in a very short time, but is meant as a supplimental charge while the car is out and parked at the store or at work.
A premium version could integrate a Microchip MRF89XA (sub-GHz) or MRF24WB (802.11) radio that would allow wireless connection such that an alarm can be built in that monitors the connection to the car battery.  Should an unauthorized disconnect occur, an integrated alarm could go off, or the panic alarm of a built-in car alarm could be triggered.  In the case of use of the MRF24WB0 radio, control can be provided via an iphone or itouch application.