Abstract: A battery charging device is disclosed which extends the range and mileage of an electric vehicle by approximately 500 percent. The battery charging device comprises a two-way battery with fixed generators. The device essentially increases the distance an electric vehicle can travel before needing its battery recharged. Two or four wheel driven generators are connected to a charging and discharging battery and to the motor and systems on an electric vehicle to generate power via wheel rotation.

Abstract: A vehicle lift system uses locally and globally available datasets to provide various automated and semi-automated lift positioning modes that may be used to position lift arms and engage adapters with lift points of a vehicle. A set of sensors are used to determine a position and orientation of a vehicle within a lift area. Each lift arm includes a camera that is coupled to the lift arm with a static field of view relative to the adapter despite extension, retraction, or rotation of lift arm members. The cameras provide images of the adapter and its surroundings that may be analyzed with object recognition to identify the vehicle's lift points. Lift point positions may also be determined using back-calculation. Automatic positioning of the lift arms may be performed based on identified lift points and may also include projection of an optical locator from a locator within the adapter.

Abstract: A vehicle lift includes a base, a platform assembly, and an actuation member. The platform assembly includes a platform base, an adjustable bridge slidably coupled with the platform base, and a friction-reduction assembly that biases the adjustable bridge away from the platform base. The friction-reduction assembly may include a retractable flat surface, a ball, or other component made of a friction-reducing material, such as a plastic material, that recesses into the platform by way of compression springs, wave spring washers, Belleville washers, a rebounding material, or the like. A pair of lifts may be tied together by a brace at one end or both for additional structural support.

Abstract: A spectrometer system includes a processing center, an underwater remote sensor and a communication link coupled therebetween. The sensor is deployed to at least partially penetrate a sediment layer disposed beneath a body of water. The sensor includes a window defining a sediment window plane through which a profile of the sediment layer is observable and a camera, an image plane of which is a conjugate of the window, the camera imaging light from objects in the sediment window plane to generate imagewise data, the imagewise data being transmitted over the communications link to the processing center. The sensor also includes at least one removable cell disposed in the sediment window plane, each removable cell being comprised of a transparent solid material having a void therein, the void in each removable cell for holding a standard material corresponding to the respective removable cell. The sensor further includes a camera filter device having at least one camera filter.