Resonant Link’s technology, the Multi-Layer Self-Resonant Structure (MSRS), was invented at Dartmouth College in 2013. According to the company their technology has achieved 5-10 times lower power losses than other wireless charging technologies. Resonant Link has demonstrated its technology with customers in the medical device, consumer electronics and electric mobility fields. They are working to independently validate the performance gains of its SAE J2954-compliant charging coils.
YANKTECH can charge multiple devices simultaneously from LEDs to actuators to reduce wiring, assembly costs, and the weight of the vehicle.
NXP® Q1 1.3 Wireless Charging: NXP Semiconductors today announced a new automotive wireless charging reference design to be certified by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), the global standard development body for wireless power, for its new Qi 1.3 standard. Refer NXP Qi 1.3 Wireless Charging.
3D Printing Materials / Polymers with Green Characteristics: Chemical company Braskem teamed up with materials recycling company Vartega to create a polypropylene filament that
includes 100% recycled carbon fiber. Another company releasing a “green” filament is Fillamentum, who recently launched NonOilen, a 100% biodegradable polymer filament. NonOilen, which is composed of polylactic acid (PLA) and polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), is also made from bio-based polymers (meaning polymers derived from renewable resources).
Materialise launched Bluesint PA 12, a 3D printing powder made from 100% re-used powder. The goal of Bluesint PA 12 is to decrease the wastage of powder in selective laser sintering, which turns up to 50% of the powder in the bed into waste.
3D printing companies entering into ceramic 3D printing for the first time. For example, Boston Micro Fabrication, who focuses on micro 3D printing with their projection micro-stereolithography technology, released a high-temperature alumina resin for micro-ceramic components.
American company Emery Oleochemical’s Green Polymer Additives division released a polymer binder system that can be used for metal or ceramic filament extrusion printing. In addition, GC Advanced Materials Solutions, who are based out of Hong Kong, have qualified silica and mullite powders that can be used with a polymer binder (like the one Emery developed) to create ceramic filaments for extrusion printing.
The two companies worked together to create Brightorb, a high-performance ceramic powder specifically for investment casting molds and shells.
Fortify and Tethon 3D developed high purity alumina and aluminum silicate resins for Fortify’s FLUX CORE printers, which are made to handle filled photopolymer resins. The two companies intend to develop more technical ceramic resins in the future. For more information refer Printed Electronics World as Posted on December 7, 2021 by Sona Dadhania
Laser-based Welding has several important advantages for plastics compared with conventional contact methods in numerous applications, including medical devices and automotive parts. Refer Plastics Today.
Lasers in materials processing generally emit a light beam at one wavelength or a very narrow wavelength bandwidth. Unlike natural light, the laser beam is coherent and focusable. Near-infrared and infrared wavelengths are most widely used in plastics welding from 800 nm to 2 µm, often with high-power diode lasers. The level of glass fibers in certain plastics such as polyamide (PA-66), commonly referred to as nylon, can affect the transmission of light through them, especially at higher levels of glass-fiber concentration where transmission is lower.
2021 New Technology Innovations – Opportunity for Automotive Applications
1. Freetouch: Touchless interfaces for passive digital signage as well as curved/stretched, projection-based, LED/ultra-large, and distance/location-disadvantaged displays. No expensive hardware-based solutions required. Helpful solution for People Movers in the Semi-Autonomous Vehicle market as with their software-based product, existing touch-based infrastructure converted to touchless in minutes.
2. FatigPro Metal Fatigue Detection Sensor: FatigPro is the patented intellectual property of FatigPro Sensor Ltd. It is not “one-size-fits-all’ product. Must be updated for the particular application at hand.
3. Zero Energy Development: Building zero energy devices that are self-sustainable and need no batteries or wires to operate, powered by harvesting the ambient energy from their surroundings, e.g. RF, mechanical, solar, or temperature gradients. Energy harvesting IoT-device works with as low as 100µJoules energy (single press of a switch generates 200µJoules). It is challenging to detect/sense, process, and transmit with this energy. The transmission range can be 100meters at 200kbps bitrate and 10meters at 1Mbps using our proprietary protocol. The operating frequency is tunable up to 1GHz. The weight of the device excluding the harvester is a few grams. The size of our system is 10mmX10mm and costs less than $10 US.
4. Hairpin Motor Using Aluminum Hairpins: Variable Conductor Area Technology (V-Cat) allows copper to be replaced by Aluminum in EV motors without any loss of efficiency saving considerable cost. V-Cat is a form of hairpin winding in which the end-windings and slot conductors formed in aluminum using conventional die casting. A typical hairpin motor using copper hairpins consumes around 8kg. of copper costing over $80.00 and replaced by 2.5kg of aluminum costing $7.00. The manufacture of aluminum has significantly less environmental impact than the manufacture of copper.
5. SERS Suspension Energy Recovery System: It employs a patented reciprocation technique to increase the input frequency to a linear generator, improving vehicles’ energy harvesting efficiency. Energy from road imperfections and vehicle movements during acceleration, braking, and cornering transferred to the automotive shock absorbers, creating a pressure increase in the working fluid. SERS employs a unique combination of a direction control valve (DCV) and double-acting cylinder(DAC) to harness this fluid energy in achieving higher operating frequencies necessary for a linear generator to produce useable electrical energy.
6. AIRA Wireless Charging: FreePower with an advanced hardware and firmware approach that enables surface power in any size. FreePower charging stations (transmitters) consist of a matrix of overlapping coils that tracks the location of devices (receivers) placed on its surface, intelligently positioning magnetic fields that deliver efficient and precise power – even as receivers shift across the surface. Independently controlled charging zones enable several devices to charge simultaneously, with up to 15 Watts per device. As Qi enabled devices placed across the charging surface, power delivered to each one, and intelligently managed to optimize performance and efficiency.
7. Vision X: It is a voice-based smart glass for people with complete blindness uses a set of high-definition cameras for image processing and a LIDAR sensor for distance measurement. It uses a custom Soc processor optimized for faster image detection. The smart glass connected to smartphones, but it can work independently with limited features.
8. Thermionic Transistor: Direct conversion of thermal energy to electric energy a thermal source energy heats an electrode, excited electrons escape the surface (Edison Effect) across a potential energy barrier to a differently charged electrode, producing electric power output, returning lower energy electrons through a work circuit.
9. XD100 N100 Efficient Respirator: Is reusable and also has smart features such as Bluetooth interface, self-sterilization. It can trap 99.97% of 0.3 microns particle size – which is the highest achievable safety and filtration efficiency – highest standards. This testing by DRDO (DRDE) facility of Govt of India.
10. Interactive Smart Windows for Autonomous Vehicles: Complete with Digital Display capabilities. Transparent OLED TECHNOLOGIES with touchscreen, face recognition, temperature control, Augmented reality, voice recognition, and other features.
11. AutoRing Dash Cam: Instead of filming what is going on outside the car, it is set to record break-ins. Owners have a security fob that disarms the system when doors are opened, but if a thief enters the vehicle, the system will alert the owner within seconds and 20 seconds later a second alert with 3 pictures of intruder. There is also a GPS tracker to allow the owner to advise police where their vehicle is.
12. Lumotive Lidar Sensor: Highly scalable lidar platform leverages unique beam-steering technology based on patented Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces™ to deliver an unprecedented combination of high performance and readiness for mass adoption as measured by cost, reliability and small form factor. Unlike traditional lidar offerings, Lumotive’s solutions are scalable — from ultra-small form factor and low-cost solutions needed for smartphones, to high-performance and long-range solutions demanded by the automotive industry.
13. V-Knight Helmet: Aims to solve the safety problems on the way of delivery by means of new technology application, to improve the traffic safety of delivery riders, and to make the delivery industry safer and more efficient. The product mainly consists of three parts: the helmet, energy supply and electric control part, and display output part.
14. Battelle’s Activity Assistant™:Using glasses-integrated egocentric computer vision, augmented reality, andartificial intelligence, Activity Assistant understands how a user is interacting with the physical world around them and guides them through a series of steps to complete an activity, such as fixing a car engine or conducting a chemistry protocol.
15. Smart Sensor Network System: Smart Sensor mainly focuses on indoor air quality monitoring. The cost-effective device is operated by using the Arduino Mega microcontroller and IoT platform to escalate air quality in the closed environment especially people movers / school buses. The device will monitor the indoor environment and provide early detection via smartphone and website for the user.
16. The Anti-Germ Dome:: It is a small electrical device that contains (3) germicidal UVC LEDs. The LEDs emit “shortwave” germ killing UV light that kill bacteria by disrupting their DNA and destroying nucleic acid. The germicidal UVC LEDs operate at 275 nanometers in the light spectrum – the sweet spot for germ kills. Just as the sun emits germ killing light so does the Anti-Germ Dome. After every time a door handle gets accessed, the Anti-Germ Dome waits 10 seconds before activating its germicidal LEDS which then shower the door handle in germ killing UV light for 1 minute. In that time, germs on the door handle are destroyed.
