Movable Enclosed Vehicle Transport Platforms for Damage Protection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing road and rail transport vehicles inadequately protect vehicles during transport, exposing them to weather hazards, projectiles, and malicious acts, leading to potential damage and increased maintenance costs due to inefficient loading and unloading processes.

Innovation Solution

A road or rail transport vehicle with integral, movable individual trays equipped with protection devices that form a protective barrier around the vehicle, allowing for secure and covered transport, rapid loading/unloading, and enhanced protection against external factors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If vehicles are transported on open carriers or trailers, then loading and unloading is simple and rapid, but the vehicles are exposed to weather hazards, projectiles, and malicious acts causing damage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveloading and unloading speedVSAvoidexposure to weather, projectiles, and malicious acts

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The transport vehicle is divided into multiple individual enclosed trays, each capable of independent movement and protection. Each tray acts as a separate protective cell that can be moved independently to load/unload vehicles without affecting other trays, maintaining rapid operations while providing enclosed protection against all harmful factors.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The enclosed trays serve as intermediary structures between the open transport vehicle and the vehicles being transported. These trays provide the protective barrier while maintaining the functionality of rapid loading and unloading through their mobile design, mediating between the need for protection and the need for operational speed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If fixed enclosed platforms are used, then vehicles are protected during transport, but loading and unloading requires additional handling time and complexity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprotection from weather and damageVSAvoidhandling time for loading and unloading

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The enclosed trays are designed to be mobile rather than fixed, allowing them to move dynamically between enclosed and open positions. This dynamic design enables the trays to provide protection during transport while being easily movable for rapid loading and unloading operations, eliminating the time loss associated with fixed enclosed structures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The enclosed trays are pre-positioned and ready for immediate use, eliminating the need for additional handling or assembly during loading and unloading operations. The protective structure is already in place and can be quickly moved into or out of position, preventing time loss that would occur with structures requiring assembly or adjustment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If movable trays without protection devices are used, then loading and unloading is rapid, but the trays lack protection against projectiles and weather during transport

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveloading and unloading efficiencyVSAvoidprotection effectiveness during transport

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The protection devices are merged with the movable trays to form an integrated protective cell. This combination ensures that the trays maintain both their mobility for rapid loading/unloading and their protective capability during transport, achieving both high productivity and high reliability simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The movable trays with integrated protection devices serve multiple functions: they provide protection against weather and projectiles during transport, enable rapid loading and unloading through their mobility, and can be repositioned as needed. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction between productivity and reliability by making a single structure that achieves both goals.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP4238822A1Road or rail transport vehicle

Publication Date: 2023.09.06 GUEGAN ERIK

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AI summary

The present invention relates to a road or rail transport vehicle comprising one or more individual platforms (12) for the transport of motorized or non-motorized vehicles, said platform(s) being fixed to said transport vehicle, said or at least one of said individual platforms (12) being movable to allow the loading/unloading of at least one motorized or non-motorized vehicle onto said road or rail transport vehicle. According to the invention, - each movable individual platform is equipped with a protective device so as to move the device with it when the movable platform is moved, and - each protective device (14) defines, with its corresponding individual platform, a volume to accommodate at least one vehicle to be transported, each protective device being configured to form a barrier protecting said at least one vehicle against external damage during its transport.