Corrugated Surface Boards in Vehicle Conveyance Mechanisms
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Current truck compartment designs face challenges in efficiently loading and positioning large and heavy goods due to high sliding friction, requiring laborious use of forklifts and occupying valuable transport space with existing convey devices.
Innovation Solution
An auxiliary convey mechanism featuring elongated splice plates, corrugated surface boards, support frames with rollers and airbags, and avoidance gaps that allow floor beams to be inserted, maintaining transport space height while providing structural stability through corrugated surface boards and U-shaped support frames.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If convey devices are directly laid on the upper side of the floor board, then the conveyance function is achieved, but the transport space height is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The support frames are designed to extend downward from the floor board surface into the space between the floor board and the vehicle floor, utilizing the vertical dimension to provide support without occupying horizontal transport space. The avoidance gaps allow floor beams to pass through, effectively moving the support structure into the unused vertical space below the floor board level.
2Device complexity
If flat surface boards are used, then the structure is simple, but the structural strength is insufficient to support heavy goods
Solution Approach 1:
The surface boards are transformed from flat to corrugated shape with wave-like contours. This curvature increases the moment of inertia and bending resistance of the boards, significantly enhancing their load-bearing capacity while adding minimal weight or complexity to the overall structure.
3Stability of the object's composition
If support frames are fixedly connected to the floor board, then the structural stability is improved, but the transport space is occupied
Solution Approach 1:
The support frames are nested within the space between the floor board and the vehicle floor, with their lower portions positioned below the floor board level. The avoidance gaps allow floor beams to pass through the support frame structure, effectively nesting the support function within the existing vehicle structure without encroaching on the cargo transport volume.
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
The mechanism enhances structural stability and maintains truck transport space by allowing floor beams to be inserted between support frames, reducing deformation and enabling efficient movement and positioning of goods without occupying additional space.
Implementation Method 1
an airbag disposed in the support frame, when the airbag is inflated to lift the rollers upwards
Implementation Method 2
a convey device for goods includes support frames and airbags and roller frames disposed in the support frames
Data Source
AI summary
An auxiliary convey mechanism for goods in a vehicle compartment, comprising a plurality of splice plates, a plurality of surface boards, a plurality of support frames, a plurality of conveying assemblies and a plurality of avoidance gaps. Each of the conveying assemblies comprises a lifting frame and rollers. Avoidance gaps are formed between two adjacent support frames of the support frames along a length direction of a surface board of the surface boards. Each of the conveying assemblies is disposed in each of the support frames, and each of the surface boards is bent along a width direction of the surface board to have a corrugated shape. The auxiliary convey mechanism for goods in the vehicle compartment has higher structural stability while without occupying the transport space of a truck.