Flight Vehicle Wire Fixing for Vibration-Safe Transport

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies lack effective methods for fixing battery-driven flight vehicles during marine and land transportation, leading to potential damage from vibration and impact.

Innovation Solution

A method involving connecting predetermined portions of the flight vehicle with a moving body using wires to secure and position the vehicle during transport, thereby mitigating vibration and impact.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If battery-driven flight vehicles are transported without fixing methods, then transportation simplicity is maintained, but the vehicles are vulnerable to damage from vibration and impact

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle protection during transportVSAvoidtransportation system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-positioning fixing wires and connection structures on the transport platform before the flight vehicle is loaded. The fixing wires are arranged in advance to connect with predetermined portions of the vehicle, ensuring protection is ready before transport begins, thus preventing vibration and impact damage without adding complex operational steps

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses fixing wires as an intermediary element between the transport platform and the flight vehicle. These wires serve as a mediating mechanism that transfers and distributes forces during transport, protecting the vehicle from direct impact and vibration while maintaining a simple overall system structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If fixing wires are connected to predetermined portions of the flight vehicle, then vibration and impact damage are prevented, but the ease of loading and unloading is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle security during transportVSAvoidloading and unloading convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the fixing system into multiple independent wire connections attached to different predetermined portions of the flight vehicle. This segmentation allows individual wires to be easily connected and disconnected at specific points, providing secure multi-point fixation while maintaining operational simplicity through modular connection design

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces complex mechanical locking systems with simple wire connections that can be easily tied and untied. This substitution maintains vehicle security during transport through proper wire tensioning and routing while significantly improving the ease of loading and unloading operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS20250242952A1Method for fixing flight vehicle during transportation and mobility-as-a-service (MAAS) providing method
Publication Date: 2025.07.31 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a method for fixing a flight vehicle during transportation and a MaaS providing method. A method for fixing a battery-driven flight vehicle during transportation that includes fixing the flight vehicle by connecting a predetermined portion of the flight vehicle and a moving body by a wire.