Heavy-Load Vehicle Integrated Telescopic Frame for Easier Assembly

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing heavy-load vehicles with telescopic members require separate delivery and assembly of components, leading to logistical complexity and cost, and are limited by the diameter of telescopic inner members, complicating delivery and assembly.

Innovation Solution

Integrate inner and outer telescopic members within the same partial vehicle, allowing for telescopic members to be delivered as part of the vehicle, and provide telescoping state fixing means to adjust length without separate components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If telescopic members are provided as separate components for different partial vehicles, then the heavy-load vehicle can be adapted to loads of different lengths, but it requires huge logistical effort and care to deliver all components to the transport start location

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to loads of different lengthsVSAvoidlogistical effort for component delivery
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the inner and outer telescopic members into a single integrated partial vehicle unit. The inner telescopic member is guided within the outer telescopic member, and both are formed as integral parts of the same partial vehicle, eliminating the need for separate delivery and assembly of these components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The heavy-load vehicle is divided into multiple partial vehicles that can be independently delivered and assembled. Each partial vehicle contains its own integrated telescopic members, allowing for modular delivery while maintaining the telescopic functionality for length adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Length of moving object

If the inner telescopic member has a length equal to or less than the outer telescopic member, then the overall length of the partial vehicle can be reduced, but the telescopic functionality is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoverall length of partial vehicleVSAvoidtelescopic extension capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Length of moving objectVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The inner telescopic member is nested within the outer telescopic member, with the inner member having a length equal to or less than the outer member. This nesting arrangement allows the inner member to be fully retracted into the outer member, minimizing the overall length while still providing telescopic extension capability when needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentEP4114713B1Heavy-load vehicle
Publication Date: 2025.08.20 GOLDHOFER
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AI summary

The invention relates to a heavy-load vehicle (100) comprising at least two partial vehicles, namely a frontmost partial vehicle (102) and a rearmost partial vehicle (104), said frontmost partial vehicle (102) having connecting means (118), and said rearmost partial vehicle (104) having counter-connecting means (128) adapted and configured for cooperating with said connecting means (118), one of said connecting means (118) and said counter-connecting means including an inner telescopic member (118c) guided in a hollow outer telescopic member (118d) in a telescoping manner. According to the invention said hollow outer telescopic member (118d) is integrally formed by a tubular or box-shaped central part of a partial vehicle frame (112) of one (102) of the partial vehicles, said hollow outer telescopic member (118d) and said inner telescopic member (118c) cooperating therewith being parts of the same partial vehicle (102).