Modular Chain Track Undercarriage for Multi-Task Work Machine
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing machine solutions for tasks combining excavation, loading, and transportation require separate machines, lacking a comprehensive, terrain-capable, multi-purpose solution that can efficiently perform various tasks such as digging, loading, transporting, and personnel hoisting in challenging environments.
Innovation Solution
A multi-purpose work machine equipped with chain tracks, a modular structure, and remote control capabilities, allowing it to perform excavator, loader, and transporter functions, with interchangeable tools like a bucket or grab, and a tipping platform for unloading materials, enabling efficient operation in diverse terrains and tasks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If separate machines are used for excavation, loading, and transportation tasks, then each machine can be optimized for its specific function, but the overall operational efficiency and terrain capability are reduced due to requiring multiple dedicated machines
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines excavation, loading, and transportation functions into a single integrated machine system. The machine features a movable platform that can be positioned over chain tracks for excavation work, equipped with a boom and bucket for loading, and includes a tipping platform for transportation, allowing one machine to perform multiple tasks that traditionally required separate equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
The machine is designed with universal capabilities to perform multiple functions through interchangeable tools and configurations. The platform can be equipped with different tools such as buckets, grabs, or other attachments, and the machine can operate in various modes including excavation, loading, and transportation, making it a multi-functional solution that replaces multiple dedicated machines.
2Reliability
If conventional machines are used for challenging terrain work, then they can perform basic tasks, but they lack the terrain capability and maneuverability required for challenging environments
Solution Approach 1:
The machine employs chain tracks instead of rigid wheels, providing flexible contact with the terrain. The chain tracks can adapt to uneven surfaces, rocks, and challenging ground conditions, offering superior terrain capability and maneuverability while maintaining reliable operation in environments where conventional wheeled machines would struggle.
3Productivity
If a single machine is designed to perform multiple tasks, then operational efficiency improves, but the device complexity and structural configuration become more complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The machine is divided into modular segments including a movable platform, a boom structure, a tipping platform, and chain track undercarriage. Each segment can be independently positioned and operated, allowing the machine to perform multiple tasks through coordinated movement of these segments rather than requiring a completely complex integrated structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The machine incorporates dynamic elements such as a movable platform that can be positioned over chain tracks, a boom that can be raised and lowered, and a tipping platform that can be tilted. These dynamic components allow the single machine to adapt its configuration for different tasks including excavation, loading, and transportation, managing complexity through controlled movement rather than fixed multi-purpose design.
Data Source
Figure 1~2
Figure 3~5b
Figure 6
AI summary
The invention relates to a machine moving on chain tracks. The machine comprises an upper carriage (B) and below it an undercarriage (A), which comprises frame modules (A1, A100, A3) which are interconnected. The first frame module (A1) comprises a bearing ring (H) for the cabin (10) of the upper carriage (B), whereby the cabin (10) together with a boom (11) may be freely turned, the cabin structure (10) comprising the boom (11) rotating with it. A second frame module (A3) has been pivotally connected to the first frame module (A1). Between the modules (A1, A3)) there are cylinders (n1, n2) by means of which frame steering of the machine takes place, The modules (A1, A3) comprise on both sides chain track sets (200), both of which are supported by their supports (300) and pivoted to rock (arrow S1) around a transverse axis (z) by means of a bearing (900) on the support (300), whereby the machine is able to move smoothly in a varying terrain, A motor (M1) is provided for both chain track sets (200) of at least the first frame module (A1) to move its chain track (200a).