Mixed Conveyor Mover for Precision-Cost Segmented Transport

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Solution Overview

Problem

Magnetic power conveyor lines are costly for conveying sections with low accuracy and speed requirements, leading to increased operational expenses.

Innovation Solution

A mover and mixed conveyor line system that incorporates a magnetic power conveyor line and a mixed conveyor line, utilizing a mover with a first permanent magnet array and a driven assembly, allowing for friction, magnetic adsorption, or fixed contact transport modes, reducing reliance on magnetic power for sections with lower precision needs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If magnetic power conveyor lines are used for all conveying sections, then conveying precision and speed control are improved, but operating costs and setting costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconveying precisionVSAvoidsetting cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The conveyor line is divided into multiple sections with different driving mechanisms. Magnetic power conveyor sections are used where high precision and speed control are required, while non-magnetic power conveyor sections are used where such requirements are not needed, thereby reducing overall setting costs while maintaining necessary precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different sections of the conveyor line are equipped with different driving mechanisms according to their specific requirements. High-precision magnetic power driving is applied locally where needed, rather than uniformly across the entire line, optimizing the balance between precision and cost

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Speed

If magnetic power conveyor lines are used for all conveying sections, then conveying speed control is improved, but operating costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconveying speed controlVSAvoidoperating cost
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSUse of energy by stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The conveyor line is segmented into magnetic power sections for speed control requirements and non-magnetic power sections where simple conveying suffices, reducing energy consumption and operating costs while maintaining necessary speed control

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

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

Reduces overall setting costs by enabling the use of non-magnetic power conveyor lines in sections with low accuracy and speed requirements, maintaining efficient transportation while minimizing expenses.

Implementation Method 1

the two first permanent magnets and the first armature winding driving, by current excitation, the mover body to move along the magnetic power conveyor line

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMagnetic force: Lorentz Force

Implementation Method 2

a friction structure, configured to abut against the first driving mechanism and generate frictional resistance

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFriction: Friction

Implementation Method 3

an elastic member, sleeved on the guide rod, where one end of the elastic member docking against the fixed block, and the other end of the elastic member docking against the fixed structure

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElastic force: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentUS12515895B2Mover and mixed conveyor line with mover
Publication Date: 2026.01.06 SHANGHAI GOLYTEC AUTOMATION CO LTD
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AI summary

The disclosure provides a mover and a mixed conveyor line having the mover. The mover is movable mounted on the magnetic power conveyor line or the mixed conveyor line. The magnetic power conveyor line includes a first armature winding; and the mixed conveyor line includes a first driving mechanism. The mover includes: a mover body, including a first permanent magnet array, the first permanent magnet array including two first permanent magnets which are oppositely spaced apart from each other, and the two first permanent magnets and the first armature winding driving, by means of current excitation, the mover body to move along the magnetic power conveyor line; and a driven assembly, connected with the mover body, and configured to be in transport connection with the first driving mechanism and drive the mover body to move along the magnetic power conveyor line or the mixed conveyor line.