TycheeJuno headed by Sameer Panda received the award.
By Sreekanth A Nair
(Courtesy of YouTube)
A technology to prevent tire tube puncturing got an award in the Create the Future Design Contest- 2015 conducted by NASA Tech Brief in New York.
The Burst Prevention and Puncture Curative (BPPC) technology invented by TycheeJuno project from India became one of the top ten entries in the contest.
TycheeJuno is a firm working on Disruptive and Breakthrough Innovation in technology mostly related to automotive division. The project team was headed by Sameer Panda, an engineer, based in Odisha.
The Mild Run Flat Tyre developed by TycheeJuno is a multi-chambered tubeless tire with sealant inside the chamber to take care of puncture in tread and sidewall.
The Mild RFT takes care of the drawbacks of traditional sealant in tire namely leakage, deterioration of sealant due to interaction with air, problem in wheel balancing, rubber hardening, clogging near the valve, messy feeling for customer etc.
It helps to increase fuel efficiency and life and can also be manufactured with existing technology. It is estimated that if this technology is used in 10 million vehicles, carbon emission due to tyre replacement can be reduced up to 200,000 ton CO2 annually. 200 million gallons of gasoline consumption also can be reduced.
(Courtesy of Facebook page of TycheeJuno)
Another importance of this invention is that use of cancer-causing lead, which is used for wheel balancing, can be avoided. The US has already banned the use of lead.
Hindustan Times quoted TycheeJuno team leader Sameer Panda as saying, “It has clocked more than 40,000 hours in last more than a decade in inventing the technology that can be manufactured in existing manufacturing set-up and can also be retrofitted in any tubeless, self-supported or auxiliary supported tire.”
Procyrion Inc. USA won the grand prize in the contest for Development of a Non-Surgical Circulatory Support Device for the treatment of chronic heart failure. Seven other teams received awards for different categories. Scientists from 60 countries participated in the contest.
Panda is a Masters in Business Law from National Law School Bangalore, patent agent and inventor, and now pursuing PhD from VSS University of Technology in Odisha’s Sambalpur district.
Udit Bondia, Smitiparna Satpathy and Dr Kashma Nidhi Panda also were part of the team.
Tech Brief is a contest jointly organized by NASA and Society of Automobile Engineers, International.
2 Comments
congrats…we r proud of you…but my questn is…so when r u actually implementing those ideas in india only…coz in nasa u have won the prze,and now they will steal ur or put ur ideas in their country,what abt india,everytime our scientists inventing somthng incredible but other countries took advantage and becoming more powerful then india….
Congratulations Sameer dada, a step close to reality….