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Old 09-04-2009, 12:24 PM
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Cool Use for Rotaries

I found this patent today and though it was pretty interesting.

Using an explosive charge to drive a rotary engine to tighten a seat belt before a crash


http://www.google.com/patents?id=N6Q...age&q=&f=false

Its used in some Mercedes and VW cars

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on wiki as well, none the less cool idea
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There really is a lot of detail to that.
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