Magnetic Container Swapping With Guided Rotation Shaft Coupling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current container swapping technologies face challenges in efficiently coupling and decoupling trailer-type containers due to additional structural complexities, which complicate storage and shipping processes, often requiring additional equipment like forklifts for handling.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle equipped with a drive module that utilizes magnetic modules to freely couple and decouple from containers, allowing for easy movement and alignment through guide portions and power modules, facilitating autonomous or manual operation for container swapping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If trailer-type containers are used with wheels and towing vehicles, then containers can be transported by road, but additional equipment like forklifts is required and handling becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the trailer structure (wheels and towing vehicle interface) from the container system by implementing direct ground-contact capability through the rotation shaft mechanism. The container body is equipped with rotation shafts that allow it to move independently on the ground without requiring external trailers or towing vehicles, thereby eliminating the need for additional handling equipment like forklifts.
Solution Approach 2:
The container is designed with self-propulsion capability through its rotation shafts that enable direct ground contact and movement. The container can position itself and move independently without external assistance from trailers, towing vehicles, or handling equipment, making the system self-sufficient and simplifying operational procedures.
2Ease of operation
If magnetic modules are used for coupling and decoupling, then coupling/decoupling becomes convenient and efficient, but magnetic force control precision is required
Solution Approach 1:
The invention incorporates position detection sensors that detect the relative positions between the drive module and container. This feedback information is used to control the magnetic modules, allowing the system to automatically adjust magnetic force application based on real-time positional data. The feedback mechanism enables precise magnetic force control without requiring complex manual intervention, making the coupling and decoupling process both convenient and accurate.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables convenient and efficient coupling and decoupling of containers, reducing the need for additional handling equipment and improving the storage and shipping process by using magnetic forces and position detection sensors for precise alignment.
Implementation Method 1
magnetic modules provided on peripheries around the guide portions, the drive module traveling toward the rotation shaft of the container so that the rotation shaft enters the guide portions, and the guide portions and the rotation shaft being held by holding forces from the magnetic modules
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AI summary
A vehicle capable of container swapping, includes: a container including a container body and a rotation shaft provided on a front end portion or a rear end portion thereof; and a drive module including a driving device to be able to travel, guide portions formed on a first side and a second side of the drive module, respectively, to guide the rotation shaft of the container, magnetic modules provided on peripheries around the guide portions, the drive module traveling toward the rotation shaft of the container so that the rotation shaft enters the guide portions, and the guide portions and the rotation shaft being held by holding forces from the magnetic modules so that the container is moved through traveling.