Inductive Vehicle Energy Sharing on Single Track
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle transportation systems require multiple tracks for return movement, leading to high area consumption and inefficient energy transfer, especially when handling long transport routes and large objects.
Innovation Solution
The system employs vehicles with coil windings for inductive energy transfer between adjacent vehicles, allowing for contact-free energy sharing and efficient movement along a single track, utilizing a high-capacity additional energy store for energy absorption and distribution during synchronized operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple tracks are used for return movement, then vehicles can operate efficiently, but area consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the outward and return movement tracks into a single shared track. Vehicles of different types (first and second vehicles) operate on the same track, with the smaller second vehicle being able to pass underneath or alongside the larger first vehicle, thereby eliminating the need for separate tracks and reducing area consumption while maintaining operational efficiency
2Speed
If energy is transferred contactlessly between vehicles, then transmission speed increases, but energy loss increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary energy storage device that temporarily stores energy received from the first vehicle and then transfers it to the second vehicle. This intermediary approach allows for controlled energy transfer, reducing losses compared to direct contactless transmission, while still maintaining high speed through the use of electromagnetic induction between the vehicles
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables efficient, low-area consumption transport of objects along a single track by allowing vehicles to share energy reserves, reducing the need for extensive infrastructure and enhancing logistical flexibility and speed.
Implementation Method 1
the energy absorbed by the winding can be transferred to the additional energy store
Implementation Method 2
energy can be transmitted from the additional energy store to the first energy store and/or to the drive
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for transporting an object that can be received by or unloaded from vehicles, each of said vehicles having a drive capable of creating movement. The vehicles are arranged along a line, in particular an imaginary line, in particular a straight or curved travel route. In a first step, a first vehicle is driven up to a neighbouring vehicle along the line, in a second step, the object received by the first vehicle is transferred to the neighbouring vehicle along the line and in particular in a third step, the first vehicle is driven up to the respective other neighbouring vehicle along the line. The steps are in particular repeated.