Freight Container System With Mediate Posts
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing ISO freight container system restricts flexibility in stacking due to specific size requirements, leading to potential damage during loading and limited adaptability in the loading process, as smaller containers cannot support larger ones, limiting the efficiency of container arrangement and stacking.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a freight container system featuring corner posts and mediate posts with a predetermined distance, allowing for greater flexibility in container positioning and load-bearing capacity, enabling containers of various sizes to be stacked without compromising balance, and allowing for higher loads and more extensive stacking configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If smaller containers are loaded early on a boat deck, then loading space is utilized, but larger containers cannot be stacked onto them later, causing damage risk and limited loading adaptability
Solution Approach 1:
The container system is segmented into two types based on post configuration: first type containers with only corner posts and second type containers with corner posts and mediate posts. This segmentation allows different stacking patterns and loading strategies, enabling larger containers to be stacked on second type containers while smaller containers can be placed on first type containers, thus resolving the contradiction between loading speed and adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
Second type containers serve multiple functions: they can support both smaller first type containers on their mediate posts and larger second type containers on their corner posts. This multi-functionality allows the same container type to adapt to different loading scenarios, enabling flexible stacking arrangements that prevent damage and improve loading efficiency
2Stability of the object's composition
If containers are stacked with strict size requirements, then structural stability is maintained, but flexibility in container arrangement is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The mediate posts on second type containers provide localized support points with specific load-bearing characteristics. This local quality enhancement at strategic positions allows smaller containers to be stacked on larger ones without compromising overall stability, as the mediate posts are specifically positioned and dimensioned to handle the localized loads from above
3Adaptability or versatility
If mediate posts are designed to hold higher load, then stacking flexibility increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of making all posts uniformly complex to handle maximum loads, the design applies partial action by providing enhanced mediate posts only where needed on second type containers. This selective enhancement achieves the required stacking flexibility while minimizing overall structural complexity, as only specific posts require increased load-bearing capacity
Data Source
AI summary
Freight container system comprising a first type of container and a second type container. The first type container comprises only corner posts and no further posts. The second type of container comprising mediate posts. Also is disclosed a freight container comprising mediate posts (8). Wherein the system allows for further possibilities of stacking than previously known freight containers. The disclosure is also related to a freight container.