Supercar sprint power SPRINT POWER, A British
Founder and CEO of
technology company
Sprint Power, Richie Frost,
specialising in vehicle propulsion,
commented: “We are privileged
has been chosen by Gordon
to be working with the team at
Murray Automotive to develop
Gordon Murray Automotive.
and integrate the electrical
Like Sprint Power, they seek out
systems for its T.50 supercar.
innovative solutions, thinking
The multi-million-pound
of inventive ways to achieve
technical partnership is a key
more while capitalising on the
development in creating what
collective strengths of the team
Murray says will be “the purest,
to deliver great results.”
lightest, most driver-focused
The V12-engined T.50
supercar ever made”.
features a mid-engine, rearwheel
drive layout that will
produce 650hp and be capable
of 12,100rpm, the highestrevving
engine ever used in a
production car. A unique air ow
management system includes a
rear-mounted 400mm grounde
ect fan and six aero modes
to balance traction and outright
performance. Only 100 models
will be produced, with each
costing in excess of £2m before
taxes.
NEWS | EUREKA!
TECH BRIEF
ISMOPFRTOWVAER AEM T O
VISUALISATION
Renishaw has launched Sonic,
an acoustic process monitoring
software, to form part of its
In niAM suite. Sonic is said to
be the rst of its kind in the AM
industry to enable engineers to
detect acoustic events within the
additive manufacturing (AM) build
chamber and turn this data into
useful information on build quality.
The package includes four
acoustic energy sensors to detect
vibration in the build, which can
be installed into any Renishaw
machine. Because each sensor
measures the same noise at a
di erent time due to the speed
of sound, the software can
triangulate the position of the
noise on the build plate using the
time di erence between when
each sensor detected the event.
In addition, the software will
present a level of certainty about
where the noise occurred.
David Ewing, AM applications
and software manager at
Renishaw, said: “Renishaw rst
added In niAM Spectral and
In niAM Central to its range to
give manufacturers eyes into their
AM, now we’ve launched Sonic to
be the ears. These tools will help
engineers to better understand
their AM processes and identify
defects early on, so that they can
stop the build, saving material
and time.”
CCOHAFFLELEE SOLUTION TO LAST NTIGMEE MONTH’S In last month’s Co ee Time
Challenge, we asked you
to design a blood pressure
measuring device that is
accurate, can be used at home
and doesn’t require calibration
by a traditional cu -based
device. We received some…
interesting suggestions, but
The V-Sensor is said
our solution comes in the form
to be small enough and
of the V-Sensor from Leman
cheap enough to be built
Micro Devices (LMD).
into every mobile phone
LMD’s unique and patented
and is fully engineered for
solution uses the same
production in smartphone
principle as a cu but acts on
quantities. Its accuracy
the ngertip. Its V-Sensor
for both Systolic and
module instructs the user
Diastolic blood pressure
to press harder or softer to
measurement complies
occlude the arteries of the tip
with international standard
of the index nger and detects
ISO 81060-2: mean error
it optically using a pulse
<5mmHg and standard
oximeter.
deviation <8mmHg.
With no personal
calibration, V-Sensor has
demonstrated accuracy for
systolic blood pressure (SBP)
of mean error -0.4mmHg,
standard deviation 7.2mmHg,
and for diastolic blood
pressure (DBP) of mean
error -0.2mmHg, standard
deviation 6.0mmHg, both well
within the deviation allowed by
the ISO standard.
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