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# of Displayed Technologies: 5 / 5
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Grass Surrogate
TS-062844 —
Road departure is a serious threat to vehicle safety and can result in fatal accidents. To prevent road departure, some vehicles are equipped with a road departure mitigation system that can detect when a vehicle is about to leave the road and take corrective actions. However, there is a need for …
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Surrogates for Concrete Dividers
TS-062834 —
Road departure can be extremely dangerous for vehicles. Some vehicles are equipped with road departure mitigation systems to prevent this from happening. However, testing these systems can be difficult and costly, as it involves crashing vehicles into roadside objects.
The concrete divider surr…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih; Chen, Yaobin; Chien, Stanley; Lin, Jun; Sherony, Rini; Yi, Qiang
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Surrogates for Metal Guardrails
TS-062797 —
Road departures remain a significant source of traffic accidents. Tools for limiting road departures are needed to reduce accidents and improve safe driving conditions.
The Ohio State University researcher Dr. Chi-Chih Chen, along with a team of researchers, has developed a novel metal guardrai…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih; Chen, Yaobin; Chien, Stanley; Lin, Jun; Sherony, Rini
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
A proximity sensor for the detection of hands on a steering wheel
TS-048591 — An embedded coax proximity sensor for the detection of hands or other objects near a vehicle's steering wheel
The coming age of autonomous vehicles will require the development of many new technologies to keep the vehicle occupants safe even when no one is paying attention to the vehicle operation. At present, given the limited capabilities of autonomous vehicles, it is necessary for the driver to monitor…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Lee, Robert; Kiourti, Asimina; Wang, Zhenyu
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
Artificial Skin Design for Human Surrogates
TS-015001 — This artificial skin technology produces a similar reflectivity as human skin in the 76-77 GHz frequency range and can be effectively used on mannequins for pedestrian pre-collision system (PCS) evaluations.
According to fatality crash data from the 2003-2012 Fatality Analysis Report System (FARS) in United States, there was an average of around 4,400 pedestrian fatalities per year, accounting for 11-14% of all traffic fatalities and the numbers have continued to rise in recent years.In Japan, the nea…
- College: College of Engineering (COE)
- Inventors: Chen, Chi-Chih; Chen, Ming; Chien, Stanley; Sherony, Rini
- Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan
