Mobile Blade Cutting Trailers for On-Site Segmenting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies lack a suitable method for efficiently cutting and dividing large structure bodies, such as wind turbine blades, which are cumbersome and costly to transport due to their size, requiring a significant amount of manual labor or ineffective machinery.
Innovation Solution
A structure body cutting system comprising a cutter system mounted on a moving trailer and a feeder system, allowing the structure body to be cut into smaller segments on-site by positioning the blade between the two systems, enabling independent movement and separation for efficient cutting and support.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a huge structure body is transported to a cutting facility, then cutting can be performed with fixed equipment, but transportation costs increase significantly and the structure body cannot be easily moved
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of transporting the huge structure body to a fixed cutting facility, the patent inverts the approach by bringing the cutting system to the structure body's location. The cutter system and feeder system are mounted on movable trailers, allowing them to be transported to where the structure body is located, thereby eliminating or reducing transportation costs of the structure body itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs dynamic, movable cutting and feeder systems mounted on trailers instead of fixed installations. This allows the system to be positioned at arbitrary locations where huge structure bodies exist, providing flexibility in operation location and eliminating the need for expensive transportation of the structure body to fixed facilities.
2Adaptability or versatility
If hand tools are used to cut the structure body, then cutting can be performed at any location, but a tremendous number of man-hours are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamic, movable cutting and feeder systems mounted on trailers instead of fixed installations. This allows the system to be positioned at arbitrary locations where huge structure bodies exist, providing flexibility in operation location and eliminating the need for expensive transportation of the structure body to fixed facilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual hand tool operations with an automated mechanical cutting system. The cutter system includes automated cutting mechanisms that can efficiently cut huge structure bodies without requiring a tremendous number of man-hours, while the movable trailer mounting provides location flexibility similar to hand tools.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the cutter system and feeder system are mounted on separate movable trailers, then they can be positioned at arbitrary locations and the structure body can be supported appropriately, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the cutting system into separate functional modules (cutter system and feeder system) mounted on separate movable trailers. This segmentation allows each module to be independently positioned and adjusted, providing flexibility in supporting structure bodies of different sizes and locations, while the modular nature actually simplifies transport and deployment compared to a monolithic system.
Data Source
AI summary
A structure body cutting system includes a cutter system mounted on a cutting side trailer and configured to cut a blade to be cut, and a feeder system mounted on a feeding side trailer and configured to send out the blade to the cutter system. The blade is placed so as to straddle between the cutter system and the feeder system. The feeder system sends out the blade to the cutter system as the feeding side trailer comes close to the cutting side trailer. The cutter system cuts the blade into a plurality of cut segments by cutting the blade sent out from the feeder system.