イグノーベル賞 工学部門 受賞者一覧
イグノーベル賞の工学部門では、2022年「つまみを回すときの指の最も効率的な使い方の解明」、2019年「乳児のおむつ交換機の発明」、2010年「ラジコンヘリでクジラの鼻水を採取する方法」などを扱っています。
受賞研究
つまみを回すときの指の最も効率的な使い方の解明
Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura, for trying to discover the most efficient way for people to use their fingers when turning a knob. REFERENCE: “How to Use Fingers during Rotary Control of Columnar Knobs,” Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura, Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, vol. 45, no. 5, 1999, pp. 69-76. <https://doi.org/10.11247/jssdj.45.69> REFERENCE: “Experimental Studies on the Rotary Control of Columnar Knobs — The Number of Fingers used at the Time of starting Rotary Control,” Gen Matsuzaki, Goro Imura, and Maseru Uehara, Proceedings of the Third Asia Design Conference, 1998, pp. 37-40. WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Gen Matsuzaki
- 受賞者
- Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura
乳児のおむつ交換機の発明
Iman Farahbakhsh, for inventing a diaper-changing machine for use on human infants. REFERENCE: “Infant Washer and Diaper-Changer Apparatus and Method,” US patent 10034582, granted to Iman Farahbakhsh, July 31, 2018.
- 受賞者
- Iman Farahbakhsh
ラジコンヘリでクジラの鼻水を採取する方法
Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and Diane Gendron of Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, Mexico, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot, using a remote-control helicopter.
- 受賞者
- Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and Diane Gendron of Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, Mexico
バーコードヘアの特許取得
Donald J. Smith and his father, the late Frank J. Smith, of Orlando Florida, USA, for patenting the combover (U.S. Patent #4,022,227).
- 受賞者
- Donald J. Smith and his father, the late Frank J. Smith, of Orlando Florida, USA
マーフィーの法則の誕生
The late John Paul Stapp, the late Edward A. Murphy, Jr., and George Nichols, for jointly giving birth in 1949 to Murphy’s Law, the basic engineering principle that “If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, someone will do it “(or, in other words: “If anything can go wrong, it will”).
- 受賞者
- The late John Paul Stapp, the late Edward A. Murphy, Jr., and George Nichols