What Automotive Patent Would You Hang on Your Wall?

by Aaron Cole

Updated: December 31st, 2020 Published: August 18th, 2015

what automotive patent would you hang on your wall

The fine brain trust at How a Car Works has a great idea: print out free high-res patents and frame them because all our money goes to cars and not decorations, obviously.

It got our motors running. What would we want to hang on the walls?

How a Car Works has the Willys Jeep patent available ( here if you want to spend money on a print):

A 1938 drawing of an internal combustion engine would do nicely:

Wankel’s rotary engine from 1958:

Ballamy’s differential gear from 1950:

Anything we missed?

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Lon888 on Aug 19, 2015

The patent for the electric parking brake - so I can throw darts at it!

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- Cls12vg30 on Aug 20, 2015
  
  You know, before last week I would have agreed with you. But then I bought a manual Jeep Renegade, and the execution of the electronic parking brake makes it a non-issue for me. Between the slope-detecting hill-holder function, the auto-engage when shutting off the engine, and auto-disengage if you start to slip the clutch while it's on, I actually kind of like it.
  
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Autojim on Aug 20, 2015

My own automotive patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US8011899 (At USPTO: http://goo.gl/OdfvDu ) I'd also put my oilfield-related patent on the wall.

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