Bracing Device with Sliding Support Profiles for Vehicle Lifting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle lifting systems require high technical effort and increased time for repair or maintenance due to the heavy weight of support bridges, which complicates positioning and occupancy of lifting platforms or pits.
Innovation Solution
A support device with a traverse unit and support profiles that can be operatively connected, allowing for slidable and foldable configuration, enabling quick positioning without separate individual parts and minimizing the need for alignment with the traverse unit, and featuring displaceable slides for easy alignment with jacking points and adjustable support elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate support bridge and lifting system are used, then the vehicle can be lifted and supported, but the total system weight becomes too high to be moved together
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the support bridge and lifting system into a single integrated device where the support profiles are directly mounted on the lifting platform. This merging eliminates the need for separate heavy components and allows the entire system to be moved together as one unit, resolving the contradiction between support capability and system weight.
Solution Approach 2:
The support bridge is segmented into multiple support profiles that can be independently positioned and adjusted. This segmentation allows the system to maintain support functionality while reducing overall weight through optimized component distribution and elimination of redundant structural elements.
2Stability of the object's composition
If heavy support bridge is used, then vehicle support is stable, but positioning time and platform occupancy increase
Solution Approach 1:
The support profiles are designed to be displaceable and adjustable along the lifting platform, allowing dynamic repositioning to match vehicle wheel positions. This dynamic capability enables quick adaptation to different vehicle types while maintaining stability, reducing positioning time without sacrificing support stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The support profiles are pre-positioned on the lifting platform in ready-to-use configurations. Before vehicle lifting begins, the profiles are already in place and can be quickly adjusted, eliminating the need for time-consuming assembly or repositioning during the lifting operation.
3Device complexity
If support profiles are fixed on lifting system, then structure is simple, but alignment with jacking points is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The support profiles are mounted on displaceable slides that allow them to be moved along the lifting platform to align with vehicle jacking points. This dynamic positioning capability provides ease of alignment while maintaining relatively simple structure through the use of straightforward sliding mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
Slides act as intermediary elements between the fixed lifting platform structure and the movable support profiles. These slides provide a simple mechanical interface that enables easy adjustment and alignment of the support profiles with various jacking points without complicating the overall structure.
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AI summary
The device has a cross bar unit (1) for lifting articles e.g. container, and two supporting profiles (2) for supporting the cross bar unit with the articles. The cross bar unit and the supporting profiles stay in effective connection with one another, where the supporting profiles are arranged outside over length-lateral edge areas of the cross bar unit. The cross bar unit consists of profile elements (102), and the supporting profiles are extendable in a longitudinal direction of the profile elements. An independent claim is also included for a method for lifting and supporting articles.