Throughout the history of automobiles, some functions or configurations that we have long been accustomed to are actually just whimsy as early as the early days of automobile development. These whimsy will become patents after being put forward, tested and practiced, and then appear in the vast number of cars. Of course, since it is a whim, there will naturally be something beyond imagination. Let's take a look at some wonderful automobile patents.
In 20 17, the U.S. Patent Office published a patent application of Ford Company, the content of which was to put a motorcycle into a car. In fact, this patent was bought by Ford from three Germans. The original plan was to put the pure electric motorcycle in the front row of the car and use the motorcycle body as the functional area between the front row and the front row driver.
In other words, the instrument, handle and other functional areas of a motorcycle are actually the center console of the car. If necessary, the hood in front of the car will be opened, and then the motorcycle will be pushed out of the car and run normally.
If you have seen the Japanese anime "Wanted Order", you should be familiar with the idea of putting a motorcycle in a car. Honda TODAY, the leader of it industry, hid a folding 50CC motorcycle Motocompo in its trunk. Although the background of the story is ordinary police chasing criminals, the pictures of motorcycles and cars in it make many favorite audiences enjoy it.
Recently, many consumers who are interested in buying a car will pay attention to the collision results of their favorite models. On the one hand, it shows that consumers pay more attention to the collision performance of cars, on the other hand, it also shows that consumers' understanding of cars has begun to jump out of the visible parts of exterior interior and focus on the aspects of technology and automobile interior that are difficult to see with the naked eye.
Because there is no product accumulation, the new forces of making cars often have insufficient confidence in distributing them to consumers in the Ministry of Security. Therefore, it is particularly important for non-traditional car-making enterprises to build their own safety technology. For example, Google applied for a safety patent for its car a few years ago. Generally speaking, when a car collides with a pedestrian, the human body will take the impact position of the car as the fulcrum, and then due to inertia, the upper body will hit the front of the car, resulting in the first injury to the victim's head and neck. Then, the victim will be bounced forward and even hit other obstacles, cars and other objects, and then secondary injuries will occur.
Google's patent is to cover the surface of the hood at the front of the vehicle with an adhesive coating. In the event of a collision, the human body will be firmly attached to the hood to avoid inertial impact on the head and neck. In addition, the body is attached to the engine cover, which avoids the secondary injury caused by the back bouncing off the front of the vehicle. Bing Ge believes that such a patent is mainly to prevent the injured from being injured and unable to be treated quickly after the accident when the unmanned driving can officially drive on the road in the future.
I wonder if you still remember what the double bumper car looks like? Two seats, two seat belts and two steering wheels. In the 1990s, engineers inside BMW really put forward the design of two steering wheels. The incident was caused by the opening of the English Channel Tunnel, and the countries at both ends of the tunnel were driving in completely different directions. On the one hand, Britain drives on the left side of the road with the steering wheel on the right. On the other hand, France and continental Europe drive on the right side of the road with the steering wheel on the left.
BMW engineers hid another steering mechanism in the glove box in front of the co-pilot. As long as it is opened, there is a folding instrument and a steering column inside. Engineers imagine that letting drivers put the steering wheel directly when needed is to quickly change the driving direction.
Of course, we only see the center console, not the three pedals under our feet. However, Brother Bing thinks that we can actually use the auxiliary system of the domestic coach car. Just lock the switch connected in the middle, and you can operate on the co-pilot side.
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