Adjustable Forklift Battery Support Plate
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional forklifts require different vehicle frame designs for varying battery sizes, leading to increased production costs and instability in battery support due to fixed battery storage room dimensions, making it difficult to share components among similarly graded forklifts.
Innovation Solution
A battery storage device with a rear support plate that is removably attached to a counterweight and adjustable via a position adjustor, allowing the spatial distance between the front and rear support plates to be adjusted to accommodate batteries of different sizes, enabling stable support and sharing of a single vehicle frame among different forklifts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the battery storage room size is fixed to match a specific battery size, then the battery can be stably supported, but different forklift grades require different vehicle frame designs, increasing production costs
Solution Approach 1:
The rear support plate is made movable relative to the front support plate through a position adjustor mechanism, allowing the battery storage room length to be dynamically adjusted. The rear support plate can be positioned at multiple discrete locations along the vehicle frame using adjustment holes and fixing bolts, enabling the same vehicle frame to accommodate batteries of different sizes while maintaining stable support.
2Ease of manufacture
If the vehicle frame is designed with fixed battery storage room dimensions, then manufacturing is simplified, but batteries of different sizes cannot be accommodated, requiring different frame designs for different forklift grades
Solution Approach 1:
The battery storage room is segmented into a fixed front support plate and a movable rear support plate. The rear support plate can be independently positioned and fixed at different locations, allowing the same vehicle frame to be used for multiple forklift grades by simply adjusting the rear support plate position rather than redesigning the entire frame.
3Reliability
If different vehicle frame designs are used for different battery sizes, then each forklift grade has optimized battery support, but production costs increase due to inability to share components
Solution Approach 1:
A single vehicle frame design with an adjustable rear support plate serves multiple functions across different forklift grades. The same vehicle frame can accommodate batteries of different sizes by adjusting the rear support plate position, eliminating the need to manufacture different frame designs for different forklift grades and reducing production costs through component sharing.
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AI summary
A battery storage device for forklifts is used in storing a battery. The battery storage device includes a vehicle frame (10) having a battery storage room (12), a front support plate (100) provided on the vehicle frame (10) for supporting a front surface (24) of the battery (20) received in the battery storage room (12), a rear support plate (200) provided at a rear side of the battery storage room (12) for supporting a rear surface (26) of the battery (24) received in the battery storage room (12), the rear support plate (200) detachably fixed to the vehicle frame (10) in such a manner that, when detached, the rear support plate (200) becomes movable toward or away from the front support plate (100) in conformity with a size of the battery (20), and a position adjustor for position-adjustably fixing the rear support plate (200) in one position selected from a plurality of fixing positions.