Inventions

The invention relates to an economic and environmentally friendly car for use in the city where there is a need to move only the person on its own, to replace the transport of one person with a car equipped with five seats, but keeping a personal comfort similar to that provided by classic cars meant to transport five people.

The set of protective clothing and underwear with thermo-regulating properties for mine rescuers consists of: – protective clothing of non-flammable, anti-static and abrasion resistance characteristics equipped with cooling elements made of phase change materials; – underwear of non-flammable and anti-static properties with the function of under-clothing microclimate thermoregulation, with cooling elements in the form of the phase-change materials or – underwear with the air-fed ventilation system. Underwear is equipped with a system for monitoring the physiological conditions of the rescuer. It is intended for use by mine rescuers during the rescue operations in the conditions of hazards and thermal load caused by hot microclimate and physical effort. Protective clothing and underwear meets the requirements of the PPE Directive 89/686/EEC and harmonised European standards regarding the protective clothing of non-flammable and anti-static properties.

Off-road machines and vehicles, in order to provide required operational productivity and safety, should meet a series of often conflicting requirements – for example: high maneuverability, mobility and high rollover, longitudinal and directional stability. Modern, conventional undercarriage systems of that class of machines and vehicles do not satisfy these requirements. It is a commonplace that vehicle safety is reduced so as to increase operational productivity. Thanks to the unique inventions, the developed new generation undercarriage system satisfies all these requirements – adaptively adjusting its structure, suspension system, geometrical and mass parameters for the actual operation conditions. Innovative mechatronic articulation and oscillation joint enables active adjustment of its geometry providing optimal rollover and directional stability of the vehicle (patent application P.418204). Modular concept of the vehicle and the unique driving module design provide the configuration of countless undercarriage systems with e.g. different suspensions, steering methods, geometry and driving axles number. Consequently, optimization of maneuverability, mobility and longitudinal stability of the vehicle is possible (patent application P.418203). Implementation capacity of the presented autonomous mobile land vehicle includes machines for special purposes (e.g. military, space vehicles) as well as typical off-road machines and vehicles (e.g. earthmoving, agriculture machines, civil vehicles), both as remote and autonomous solutions. The enormous research verification potential of the vehicle should be also mentioned. Its unique proprieties enable accurate simulation and empirical verification of practically any wheeled ground vehicle; the present knowledge of many modern undercarriage systems is insufficient. What is more, both steering and data acquisition, can be performed remotely. It gives an extra research capacity in unmanned vehicles.

The invention is a novel method of packing of culinary ostrich meat allowing maintenance of high quality of meat during preservation, enabling reduction of mass loss and extension of meat’s expiration date. Ostrich meat is considered as health-promoting product with low content of fat, optimized profile of fatty acids and reduced allergenic properties. Relatively high pH of ostrich meat causes favourable conditions for rapid microorganisms growth causing a big challenge for food industry for optimization of food preservation conditions. Adequate packing of food, protecting its quality and nutritional value against adverse changes are very important for food producers and consumers. In proposed innovative technology of packing ostrich meat using modified atmosphere and three-layered copolymer EVOH foil, ostrich meat maintains unchanged colour, aroma, freshness and extended expiration date. Moreover, novel packing method increases customer’s acceptability of ostrich meat.

‘Total Car Rescue’ (TCR) is designed to prevent drivers from falling asleep at the wheel. You are able to install our device in your car within two minutes and from that moment you will be constantly protected. TCR is analysing over a dozen parameters, including user’s health (e.g. heart rate, blink average time), activity (e.g. time since driving wheel movement, average location on traffic lane) and external factors (illuminance, temperature, etc.), every without any additional requirement, like wearing special equipment. Every registered value is translated into the language of mathematics by our algorithms. TCR is not designed to detect that driver is sleeping, but to estimate the probability of falling asleep in near future and warn him in advance. TCR’s mobile application allows us to collect great amount of data describing user’s everyday activity and, on this basis, personalise almost every aspect of our system. The mixture of complexity, prevention, ease of installation and low costs makes TCR perfect choice to increase your security. The invention was awarded at the Polish Young Inventor Competition in 2016. Its participation in the Brussels Innova 2016 fair is sponsored by Foundation for Promotion of Polish Science and Innovation Haller Pro Inventio.

TEST2DRIVE is an innovative computer-based diagnostic system dedicated to psychological Fitness-to-Drive and occupational assessments as well as to self-awareness assessments focused on road safety. TEST2DRIVE has been created by experienced specialists from ALTA R&D team. ALTA as a company is continuously focused on computer-aided psychological system for more than 25 years. TEST2DRIVE offers a unique functionality using touchscreen and on-line technologies. TEST2DRIVE examines all substantial Fitness-to-Drive psychological traits out of laboratory conditions while fulfilling the relevant criteria for testing goodness. Touchscreen solution reduces all interface tools to one, universal device – a touchscreen monitor itself. The on-line technology enables to create diverse norms for huge populations, to update and improve the system on the go as well as to have an easy access and scalability of the assessment process. All used technologies make TEST2DRIVE a work environment which is: • mobile with easy, on-line access to the server main application, database and norms, • safe from temporary lack of the Internet connection, • safe in terms of personal data protection, • easily scalable, depending on how big the realized project is, • independent of hardware used, including the touchscreen monitors. TEST2DRIVE not only ensures a reliable – in accordance with all international standards – testing procedure. It also strongly supports testees and examination administration, results administration and prepares evaluation for psychologists and interpretation for testees. TEST2DRIVE can be used both for legal obligatory Fitness-to-Drive assessments (professional drivers, pilots etc.) and assessments that help any drivers to be aware of their strengths and weaknesses (road safety issue).

The thermolysis is a process of thermal decomposition of chemical compounds led in temperatures ranged of 340-490 Celsius. The process involves the disintegration of molecules of compounds of higher molecular weight into smaller particles. Thermolysis process as invention is defined as a group of consecutive physical and chemical processes, initiated and purposely carried out in order to achieve the effect of safe decomposition of waste consisting mostly of natural and artificial organic substances e.g. plastics, rubber, textiles, liquid hydrocarbons, as well as including biological material. The process is carried out in the absence of oxygen from the air. Hazardous organic material, whose recovery is allowed by the law is packaged in special disposable containers. These wastes in a safe manner can be disintegrated by thermolysis. Product is obtained as a mixture of gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons and a soft char of high purity, containing over 96% of carbon and several percent of mineral material (ash). The process is led applying purposely designed installation operated and monitored by PLC control system. No waste products nor onerous emissions exist. The apparatus and the method is protected by the patent law. New, clean technologies of waste management, contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental pollution to lessen. The acquisition of secondary raw materials from waste (recycled material) let reduce the total demand for natural resources, contributing adequately in reducing environmental degradation. The invention makes to improve indicators of the important environmental activities • saving raw materials and energy, • disintegration of hazardous organic materials, • reducing the amount and toxicity of solid, liquid and gaseous waste • minimizing the impact on the environment (carbon footprint) during the product life cycle. Parts made of stainless steel (Cr-Ni) recovered in the process of thermal decomposition of disposed medical devices and tools are to be used as a precious material e.g. for manufacturing of granules / powders for thermal spraying of machine parts and tools, which improving their operation properties or to refurbishment and reuse.

We develop power control technology allowing to get more power from electricity generators. Removing limits from permanent magnet generators, we have managed to get even 5 times more than rated generator power! It’s scalable and universal. Electricity generators can give 5 times more energy or be 5 times smaller at same power output. Energy can be cheaper and more accessible.

The idea of Magplantex is a green eco-textile mat with magnetic properties which accelerate plant growth (vegetables and flowers) and with natural repellents. It is a mat that contains lettuce seeds which grow faster than in a traditional way but without any fertilizers and losses caused by snail activity. The mat can be easily spread out on the ground, covered up with soil and watered. The mat is fully compostable and it contains magnetic grains which make plant grow faster by 30%. It also contains a composition of essential oils which is a natural repellent against snails. There is no need to use additional fertilizers or pesticides. This way even 30% of costs can be saved.

The invention presents a process for the preparation of multifunctional magnetite/ thioacids/ Ag or Au magnetic systems with potential uses in targeted diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The resulting system combines the effects of two different anti-tumor mechanisms, hyperthermia and photothermia as well as the native antitumoral activity of the Ag nanoparticles while the thioacids ensure “the protection” of these nanostructures from the own phagocyte system. The system may also embed chemotherapeutic drugs, the delivery of the active agent being triggered by the thermal stimulus induced by the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with nanoparticles.