Cargo Handling Sensor Mount for Auto Positioning and Impact Buffering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current cargo transportation devices require manual positioning, leading to inefficiencies in cargo pickup and unloading processes.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus for identification and positioning is integrated with cargo transportation devices, featuring a mounting member connected to a handling member and a detection member that can identify and position cargo or the device, utilizing a floating mechanism to mitigate impact damage and improve accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual positioning is used for cargo or cargo transportation device, then the structure is simple, but the efficiency of pickup and unloading is low

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of pickup and unloadingVSAvoidstructure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cargo transportation device is equipped with a detection device that can automatically detect and identify cargo information, enabling the system to position and handle cargo autonomously without manual intervention, thereby improving efficiency while maintaining reasonable structural complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical positioning with an automated detection and identification system that uses sensors and detection devices to automatically locate and identify cargo, substituting human-operated mechanical processes with automated systems

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If detection member is directly connected to handling member, then the structure is simple, but the detection member is vulnerable to impact damage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprotection of detection memberVSAvoidmounting structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting member is designed with cushioning or damping structures that absorb and mitigate impact forces before they reach the detection member, providing beforehand protection against damage from sudden movements or drops of the handling member

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting member acts as an intermediary element between the handling member and the detection member, providing a buffer zone that isolates the fragile detection member from direct mechanical impacts while still enabling functional connection

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP4292975A1Apparatus for identification and positioning and cargo transportation apparatus

Publication Date: 2023.12.20 EFFITO PTE LTD

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AI summary

An apparatus for identification and positioning (100) and a cargo transportation apparatus are provided in the disclosure. The apparatus for identification and positioning includes a mounting member (01) and a first detection member (02). The mounting member is configured to be connected to a handling member of a cargo transportation device (200). The first detection member is configured to identify and position a cargo or the cargo transportation device. According to the apparatus for identification and positioning and the cargo transportation apparatus provided in the disclosure, the cargo or the cargo transportation device can be automatically positioned with the first detection member, thereby reducing manual operations and improving efficiency of pickup and unloading of the cargo transportation apparatus.