Lateral Carrier Projection for Track Isolation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional transport systems for objects, particularly in the food sector, face issues with contamination and instability due to carriers not being rigidly fixed on the runner, leading to unwanted movements and soiling of the track system.
Innovation Solution
The carrier is designed to project laterally with a receiving area that can be cantilevered, allowing it to be moved over sensitive areas to prevent contamination and instability, with optional counterweights and guides for enhanced stability and payload handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the carrier is not rigidly fixed on the runner, then the carrier can move freely to handle objects, but the carrier experiences unwanted movements and instability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing stabilization devices at specific locations on the carrier rather than uniformly constraining the entire carrier. The stabilization devices are positioned to engage with stabilization guides at particular points, providing localized stability where needed while preserving carrier mobility in other areas for object handling operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The stabilization guides act as intermediary elements between the carrier and the track system. These guides provide a controlled interface that allows the carrier to move freely for picking up and depositing objects while preventing unwanted lateral movements. The guides mediate between the need for carrier mobility and the need for stability during transport.
2Device complexity
If the carrier is positioned over the track system, then the system structure is simplified, but the track system becomes contaminated by objects and debris
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the carrier's receiving area from directly over the track system by providing lateral projection. This allows the object-receiving portion of the carrier to be positioned laterally offset from the track, separating the object handling zone from the sensitive track system. The carrier body remains over the track for structural support, but the contaminating objects are held in a laterally displaced receiving area.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves the carrier's receiving area from a vertical position directly over the track to a lateral position offset from the track. This dimensional change in the horizontal plane creates spatial separation between objects and the track system, preventing contamination while maintaining the simplified vertical support structure. The receiving area projects laterally in the horizontal dimension away from the track.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the carrier projects laterally with cantilevered receiving area, then contamination of the track is prevented, but the carrier requires additional stabilization mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The stabilization guides are provided only in specific areas where the laterally projecting carrier requires support, rather than along the entire track length. This localized approach provides necessary stabilization where the cantilevered receiving area creates instability while minimizing the overall complexity of stabilization mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs counterweights to balance the laterally projecting carrier and its receiving area. The counterweights compensate for the asymmetric mass distribution created by the cantilevered structure, reducing the stabilizing moment required from the stabilization guides and decreasing the overall complexity of the stabilization system.
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 configuration effectively prevents contamination of the track system, stabilizes the carrier, and increases the system's payload capacity by ensuring the carrier and objects are kept away from the track, reducing the risk of blockages and simplifying cleaning.
Implementation Method 1
the stator of the linear motor generates the traveling electromagnetic field
Implementation Method 2
the magnetic field is provided by permanent magnets
Implementation Method 3
a drive by linear synchronous motors
Implementation Method 4
each transport mover is provided with a transducer which induces a signal in the stator formed by the railway system
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AI summary
The invention relates to a device for moving objects, comprising a plurality of individually movable transport movers for transporting the objects, comprising a track system for the transport movers, said transport movers being movable in a transport direction along at least one specified track in said track system, and comprising a controller for controlling the movements of the transport movers in the track system. Each of the transport movers comprises at least one slide which interacts with the track system and at least one object support attached to the slide. The support is at least temporarily arranged in a protruding position in which at least an object receiving region of the support protrudes laterally.