Author : Manoj Patil, Gaurav Udgirkar, Rajesh Patil and Nilesh

An automotive jack is a device used to raise all or part of a vehicle into the air in order to facilitate repairs. Most people are familiar with the basic car jack (manually operated) that is still included as standard equipment with most new cars. These days, a car jack is an important tool to have in our vehicle due to unknown upcoming event such as flat tire in our journey. Even so, people who like to rotate their tires themselves or who may install snow tires before the winter and remove them in the spring need to use a jack to perform the job. Changing a flat tire is not a very pleasant experience. Women have a much lighter skeleton that means, among other things, woman can’t pull more forces as well as men and are at greater risk of skeletal injuries. Usually the car purposely tries to get a flat tire at the least opportune moments. On average, 160 injuries are associated with car jacks each year. Injuries have ranged from amputation to fractures and crush injuries. The correct use of jacks can prevent death or injury. Improvement in automotive car jack is really needed to make the tool more efficient, user-friendly, practical to use, changes in industry direction and most importantly high safety features. Further research on car jack is very important. Operating the manual car jack is quite difficult job for pregnant women and old men. The purpose of this project is to encounter these problems. An electric car jack works on current supply from the car battery itself making it easy to operate. Operator only needs to press the button from the controller without working in a bent or squatting position for a long period of time to change the tire. In order to fulfill the needs of present car jack, some improvement must be made.

Keywords: Electric car jack, flat tires, crush injuries, improvements in jack, high safety features, car battery, easy to operate.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.4 (Aug- 2014)