Adjustable Support Frame for Large Container Impact Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile technical systems and devices face challenges in being easily converted for mobile operations while ensuring adequate protection against transport-related impacts, requiring cost-effective and structurally simple solutions for secure mounting within large-capacity containers.
Innovation Solution
The assembly device features a support frame with multiple longitudinal and transverse struts, actuating units, and damping elements, allowing for secure mechanical coupling and alignment of support heads to inner container walls, enabling reliable and efficient securing of systems within large-capacity containers during transport.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional mounting methods are used for mobile technical systems, then the systems can be transported, but they are not adequately protected against transport-related impacts and require high conversion effort and cost
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting device is divided into separate functional components: a support frame that can be independently positioned and multiple support units with adjustable support heads. Each support unit can be independently adjusted to accommodate different system configurations, reducing overall conversion effort while maintaining reliable impact protection during transport.
2Ease of manufacture
If simple mounting structures are used, then conversion cost is reduced, but adequate protection against transport impacts cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The support heads are designed with adjustable parameters including positioning along lines of action at different angles and heights. This adjustability allows the same simple structural components to adapt to various mounting requirements and impact protection needs without increasing manufacturing complexity or cost.
3Device complexity
If fixed mounting positions are used, then structural simplicity is maintained, but flexibility in system configuration is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting device incorporates dynamic adjustability through support units that can be positioned at different locations along the support frame and support heads that can be adjusted along lines of action. This dynamic capability allows the structurally simple device to adapt to various system configurations while maintaining ease of assembly and disassembly.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution allows for the secure and flexible mounting of technical systems within large-capacity containers, effectively absorbing impact loads and ensuring reliable operation during transport, while maintaining structural simplicity and cost-effectiveness.
Implementation Method 1
the support units, the actuating unit and/or the support heads have damping elements which are designed in such a way that impact loads occurring in the direction of the line of action, for example during transport of the mobile large-capacity container, can be at least partially compensated for or absorbed
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AI summary
In particular, the invention relates to an assembly device (1) for assembling a technical system (2) in a mobile large container (4), comprising a support frame (5) which is designed to secure the system (2) and which comprises a support device (6, 10, 11) that is formed on the support frame, is mechanically coupled to the support frame, and has at least two support units (6), each said support unit having at least one support head (10) which is designed to rest against an inner wall (A) of the large container (4) and which can be moved relative to the support frame (5) along a respective line of action (W) by means of an adjusting unit (11). The support heads (10) are designed or can be aligned such that the support heads (10) of the two support units (6) have lines of action (W) which runs transversely to each other, preferably perpendicularly to each other.