Today, Fan Er will take stock with you to see the amazing and interesting designs and patents in the long history of automobile development.
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A tire embedded in a light bulb
Goodyear, as the big brother in the tire industry, put forward the design concept of light tire in 196 1. This kind of tire is made of translucent synthetic rubber, and a light bulb is embedded in the tire steel ring to create a colorful synthetic rubber tire. However, due to the lack of practicality, this design was finally abandoned. Until today, the shiny tires are still designed with chicken ribs.
However, Lamborghini Terzo appeared at the Geneva Motor Show? However, Millennio shines because of the glowing tires. It is understood that Terzo? Every wheel in the Millennium has a motor. Once electrified, specially designed tires will glow and look extremely enchanting at night. But this is limited to the design of this concept car.
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Left and right steering wheel
As we all know, the driving direction of cars is different in different countries. The Anglo-French Cross-Harbour Tunnel 1994 was opened to traffic, but a problem followed: France is the left rudder and Britain is the right rudder. So BMW engineers put forward a bold solution and applied for a patent. They invented the first interchangeable steering wheel in history.
It only takes four simple steps to change from the left rudder to the right rudder. Open the glove box, turn out the dashboard, remove the steering wheel and install it on the passenger side. Well, it's really convenient, but the designer seems to have forgotten the problem of throttle and brake. I don't know how to drive, only the steering wheel, no throttle.
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Telescopic back end
Everyone knows that Toyota has a cow's head logo, but who knows that Toyota has applied for a retractable rear end? Yes, in order to improve the aerodynamic performance of the racing car, on 20 16, TEMA of Toyota North America R&D Department put forward a wonderful patent for retractable rear. It is said that this big tail is like an auger, which can be lengthened with the acceleration of the car and can effectively reduce the fuel consumption of the car. After parking, the big tail will be put in the trunk.
Not to mention whether it can reduce wind resistance and fuel consumption, such a shape will not only affect the driving safety of the rear car, but also really not good-looking. However, I have to admit that Toyota designers really have a big brain hole.
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The "square wheel" that surprised the chin
Everyone knows that the wheels of a car are round. However, SharkWheel Company in California, USA, with its square shark wheel design, successfully made the front page of Los Angeles Business Magazine a few years ago. Moreover, this design has won an international patent. Square wheels ... Faner just wants to say that it really broke my conventional cognition.
According to the designer, the wheels are designed in layers, which can reduce the contact area between the wheels and the ground, thus reducing the resistance when sliding, so the speed of SharkWheels is faster than that of traditional skateboards. Although there is enough evidence to support his statement, many people are still skeptical about this design.
It is reported that this kind of wheel adopts wave pattern design similar to sine wave, and many wheels are combined into one wheel instead of rolling on a single contact surface like traditional wheels. This design enhances the control ability on soft ground. It's just that this unconventional shape makes it hard to imagine that it can achieve stable driving after being installed in the car.
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Double-headed car without distinction between front and rear
Remember that QQ that can't tell the right from the wrong? Me? The design of that double-headed car was once laughed at by everyone. But as early as 1920, there was a Mueller garage that assembled one or two double-headed Ford T-cars to promote itself. ?
1953 there is a company called MAC? The company in Alamany applied for the patent of "two-headed car". The car in the patent has a car that pivots back and forth and can be driven from both ends. Later, someone really built a two-headed car, at the British crazy auto show "Top? In gear, James May's "Salfa Romibo" is a combination of Alfa Romeo 164 and Saab 9000.
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Sticky cover &; Man-machine front shovel
In 20 16, Google applied for a car patent to protect pedestrians. The principle is that once the car hits a pedestrian, the front of the car will firmly stick the pedestrian to the hood through a layer of adhesive coating, which can effectively prevent the pedestrian from being crushed and other secondary injuries. Because according to Google's research, when pedestrians are hit by vehicles, most of the injuries are not caused by the first impact, but because they will hit the ground again or be crushed by other vehicles. The patent introduction also indicates that its principle is a bit like flypaper and a bit like double-sided tape.
In fact, before Google's design, Parisians invented a similar design for this purpose. 1924, in order to reduce the casualty rate of pedestrians on the road, Parisians invented this car design with a shovel. Seeing this big shovel, Faner can't help thinking, if you encounter porcelain, will you shovel it away directly?
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Rooftop wind generator
The wind brought by the car is very strong, and I believe that friends who open windows at high speed have experienced it. So can we take advantage of the wind brought by driving? A man named Robert? For this reason, aerodynamicists in yost designed a set of small wind power generation devices installed on the roof, and installed them on a Ford electric car for testing. Of course, many people question this bold idea, but Robert? To prove his invention, yost said that he would plan to drive the car across the United States without charging.
Robert? Yost claims that after installing this device, the service life of vehicles can be increased by 3-4 times. The generator installed on Ford's car generates 2800 WHr, but he didn't say what wind speed it was measured at. This invention won a patent of 20 12. A Patent examiners said: There has never been a product with comparable performance to this generator, and its appearance will bring great changes. Although this patent is still a bit unreliable at present, it is uncertain whether it will become a good way to increase the battery life of electric vehicles in the future.
Of course, there are still many such automobile patent designs. For example, you can hang your dog in a "dog bag" outside the car. Fan Er thinks, if you really want to wrap the dog with this bag, do you really want to go? Go to hell!
There is also Ford, known as the "patent madman". 20 17 bought a patent that can combine cars and motorcycles. This built-in motorcycle can be separated from the car and driven independently. Its principle is similar to that of the motorcycle ejected from the batmobile in the Batman movie of Christopher Nolan, except that the batmobile is replaced by Ford C-Max.
And 1973 Ford invented the plastic protective device named "Little Guardian". The device is filled with soft plastic and then fixed with a safety belt. This is the earliest known child protection device in the car. However, the little doorman looks too much like a toilet.
Perhaps these patented designs are really funny now, but I have to sigh that in order to make cars more humanized and better serve consumers, car designers are also racking their brains to design and invent. It is precisely because of the constant inventions and designs of these designers that the current cars are more perfect.
Finally, fans, what other funny and wonderful designs do you know? Leave a message below and share it with everyone. Or if you have any interesting ideas, you can leave a message for Fan Er. If not, let's have a non-mainstream amateur car design competition to see whose design is more interesting and meaningful!
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