Aviation Container Trailer Deck With Lift-Rotate Side Loading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional trailers for aviation container transportation face inefficiencies in loading and unloading containers outside airports, as they are not designed to handle multiple containers and cannot easily navigate roads due to height and interference issues with aircraft and forklifts.
Innovation Solution
A trailer with a horizontal container deck and lashing device, featuring a liftable elevating floor with a turntable and roller conveyor, allowing containers to be loaded and unloaded from any side, enabling lateral placement and easy transportation on roads outside airports.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a dolly is used to transport aviation containers in the airport, then the container can be loaded and unloaded from the aircraft, but the dolly cannot travel on roads outside the airport and requires additional transfer operations
Solution Approach 1:
The trailer is designed to perform multiple functions: it can transport containers on airport roads like a dolly, and also travel on public roads outside the airport. The trailer body with container deck and elevating floor assembly provides a universal platform that replaces both the dolly and external transport vehicle, eliminating the need for container transfer between different vehicle types.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a forklift is used to carry containers outside the airport, then the vehicle can travel on roads, but the forklift interferes with aircraft and cannot load/unload containers at the same height as the dolly
Solution Approach 1:
The elevating floor assembly can be raised and lowered to adjust the container loading height dynamically. When loading/unloading at the airport, the floor is positioned at dolly height for compatibility. When traveling outside the airport, the floor is lowered to reduce the overall vehicle height, eliminating interference with aircraft and allowing road travel.
3Productivity
If multiple containers are to be transported efficiently, then a trailer with container deck is needed, but conventional trailers cannot load/unload containers laterally from any side
Solution Approach 1:
The elevating floor assembly can be raised to a horizontal position parallel to the container deck, creating a lateral access platform. This allows containers to be loaded and unloaded from any side of the trailer (front, rear, left, or right) rather than only from the rear, significantly improving operational flexibility and efficiency at different locations.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables quick and efficient loading and unloading of aviation containers using a dolly, allowing for seamless transportation to and from airports via roads, improving operational efficiency and flexibility.
Implementation Method 1
the mounting floor includes a roller conveyor and a pair of fixed side guides, the roller conveyor is provided horizontally at a position higher than the wheel house of the rear wheel, and a plurality of horizontal rollers rotatably supported in the horizontal axis of the trailer width direction are arranged in the trailer front-rear direction
Implementation Method 2
the elevating floor includes a turntable and a roller conveyor, and is integrally liftable and lowerable with the turntable and the roller conveyor in a state in which one aviation container is horizontally mounted
Data Source
AI summary
A container deck of a trailer includes a front mounting floor, a central elevating floor, a rear mounting floor and a rear elevating floor, the central elevating floor is capable of loading and unloading the aviation container from the left or right side of the trailer vehicle body, the rear elevating floor is capable of loading and unloading the aviation container from any of the left and right sides and rear end, the front and rear mounting floors are provided with a roller conveyor for movably placing the container and a roller conveyor and a fixed side guide for slidably engaged the container, the central elevating floor is rotatable, the rear elevating floor includes a turntable and a ball conveyor, the central elevating floor and the rear elevating floor are capable to move up and down a single container.