Bearing Platform With Inverted-Channel Formations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bearing platforms for motor vehicles are complex and costly to produce, lacking versatility in design and requiring multiple types of modules for assembly.
Innovation Solution
A bearing platform with a simplified design featuring planar end structures, longitudinal and transverse inverted-channel formations connected by platform and inclined plate portions, made from composite or metallic materials, allowing for symmetrical construction and reduced module types, enabling cost-effective and versatile production.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional bearing platforms are designed with multiple module types for assembly, then structural adaptability is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The bearing platform employs a universal modular design where identical structural modules can be configured in different arrangements to create various vehicle structures. Each module contains standardized connection interfaces that allow flexible assembly without requiring multiple specialized module types, thus achieving structural adaptability while reducing device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The platform is divided into discrete modular sections with standardized connection points. These segmented modules can be independently manufactured and then assembled in different configurations depending on the specific vehicle requirements, enabling versatility through combinatorial arrangement rather than through design variety
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional bearing platforms use multiple module types, then design versatility is improved, but manufacturing cost and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
A single standardized module design serves multiple configuration purposes through different assembly arrangements. This universal module can be mass-produced using identical manufacturing processes, significantly improving manufacturing efficiency while still providing design versatility through flexible assembly configurations
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges the functionality of multiple specialized modules into a single standardized module type. By combining the essential structural functions into one universal module design, the system achieves design versatility through arrangement rather than through component variety, thereby streamlining manufacturing
3Strength
If bearing platforms are made from plastically shaped composite or metallic material, then structural integrity is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bearing platform utilizes composite materials that combine strength and stiffness properties in a cost-effective manner. The plastic shaping process allows these composite materials to be formed into the required structural geometries in a single manufacturing step, achieving high structural integrity without proportionally increasing manufacturing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The manufacturing process employs plastic shaping which allows for parameter changes in material form and structure during production. This enables the creation of complex structural geometries from simpler starting materials through controlled deformation, maintaining structural integrity while managing manufacturing complexity
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AI summary
The platform (1) includes a pair of end structures (2) which protrudingly extend, on longitudinally opposite sides, from an intermediate portion or structure (3) which comprises a longitudinal inverted-channel formation (4) which extends between transversely intermediate portions of the end structures (2) and a pair of transverse inverted-channel formations (5) which extend on opposite sides from an intermediate portion of the longitudinal formation (4). Each transverse formation (5) is connected to the end structures (2) and to the longitudinal formation (4) by means of a platform portion (6), which joins at the bottom the transverse formation (5) to the longitudinal formation (4), and an inclined plate portion (7), which joins the platform portion (6) to the adjacent end structure (2).