Mast Climber Fixing Member for High-Rise Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
High-rise architectural structures pose challenges in maintenance due to difficulties in placing mast climber chassis, especially with obstacles like flower beds or monuments, requiring significant labor and costs, and often resulting in inefficient mast placement.
Innovation Solution
The use of fixing members or pedestal members attached to the architectural structure's side wall, allowing mast climbers to be erected at suitable positions without the need for a chassis, enabling stable mast support and efficient maintenance operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a mast climber is used for maintenance of high-rise architectural structures, then maintenance safety and efficiency are improved, but the complexity and cost of placing the chassis increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the chassis from the mast climber system, allowing the mast to be erected directly on the ground without requiring a separate chassis component. This eliminates the complexity of placing and securing the chassis while maintaining the stability and safety of the mast climber during maintenance operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The mast is designed to serve multiple functions: it provides structural support for the climbing platform, acts as the vertical guide for the mast climber's movement, and eliminates the need for a separate chassis. This multi-functionality simplifies the overall system and reduces placement complexity.
2Productivity
If the chassis is placed at the correct position to erect the mast, then maintenance operations can be performed efficiently, but obstacles like flower beds or monuments prevent proper chassis placement
Solution Approach 1:
By removing the chassis requirement, the invention eliminates the conflict between obstacles and chassis placement. The mast can be erected directly on the ground at any location, providing adaptability to sites with flower beds, monuments, or other obstacles that would otherwise prevent proper chassis placement.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of placing the chassis on the ground and then erecting the mast above it, the invention inverts the approach by erecting the mast directly on the ground without a chassis. This reversal of the traditional sequence eliminates the need to clear obstacles for chassis placement while maintaining mast stability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple masts are required for maintenance operations, then coverage and maintenance capability are improved, but the number of chassis to be placed and the labor force required increases
Solution Approach 1:
By eliminating the chassis component entirely, the invention removes the requirement to place multiple chassis for multiple masts. Each mast can be independently erected on the ground without needing its own chassis, significantly reducing the quantity of components needed and the labor required for placement.
Data Source
AI summary
To ensure maintenance operations for an architectural structure using a mast climber without any limitation on the stability of a mast and locations where a mast can be erected. A side wall 101 of an architectural structure 100 is fitted with a fixing member 130 at a level higher than the ground 500. The fixing member 130 is fitted with fixture studs 132. A mast 200 is erected on the fixing member 130 with its lower end secured to the fixture studs 132. A climbing work platform 210 that travels up and down the mast 200 is fixed to the mast 200. A worker performs maintenance operations on the climbing work platform 210.