Modular Drive Platform With Coupling Blades for Variable Vehicle Layouts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electric vehicle driving systems face challenges in adjusting to various internal spaces, limiting their adaptability to different vehicle types and sizes.
Innovation Solution
A modular driving apparatus with a main body, wheel modules, and coupling guide blades that can be easily combined with or separated from a ride module, featuring a combination determining sensor for compatibility, and coupling units for inter-apparatus connection, allowing for flexible configuration and operation with or without the ride module.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional electric vehicle driving system is designed with a fixed structure, then the manufacturing and assembly process is simplified, but the adaptability to various internal spaces and vehicle types is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The driving system is divided into independent modular units including a main body module, wheel modules, and coupling guide blades. Each module can be independently manufactured and assembled, allowing flexible configuration to adapt to various internal spaces and vehicle types while maintaining standardized manufacturing processes for each module.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular driving apparatus is designed with universal coupling interfaces and standardized modules that can be applied to different vehicle types and internal space configurations. The same basic modules can be combined in various arrangements to serve multiple vehicle applications, enhancing versatility without requiring completely different systems for each application.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the driving system is designed as a fixed integrated unit, then the structural strength and stability are improved, but the ease of adjustment and reconfiguration for different vehicle types is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into modular components that maintain structural integrity within each module while allowing flexibility at the module level. The coupling guide blades and coupling units are designed to ensure strong connections between modules, achieving both adjustability and structural strength through standardized interfaces with precise geometric fitting.
Solution Approach 2:
The coupling guide blades are positioned to nest within or alongside the coupling units, creating a interlocking structure that enhances structural strength while maintaining the ability to assemble and disassemble modules. The nested arrangement provides mechanical interlocking that secures the connection between different vehicle components.
3Ease of operation
If modular components with coupling mechanisms are used, then the ease of combination and separation is improved, but the device complexity and number of parts increases
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling guide blade and coupling unit are designed as complementary components that work together as a integrated coupling system. The guide blade integrates positioning, guiding, and locking functions into a single component that works with its corresponding coupling unit, reducing the number of separate parts needed while maintaining ease of assembly and disassembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The coupling guide blade acts as an intermediary component that facilitates the connection between the main body module and other modules or vehicle structures. It provides a standardized interface that simplifies the coupling process while managing the complexity of the connection mechanism through a dedicated intermediate component rather than integrating complexity into multiple parts.
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
Enables easy adaptation to various vehicle sizes and types, enhancing mobility and space utilization by allowing independent operation and combination with multiple ride modules, while reducing waste and resource consumption through eco-friendly, replaceable tire technology.
Implementation Method 1
the combination determining sensor is a lidar sensor
Data Source
AI summary
Proposed is a modular driving apparatus which is driven in combination with at least one ride module or is driven independently by being combined with or separated from the ride module. The modular driving apparatus includes: a main body including a coupling space in which the ride module is mounted, and wheel modules which surrounds both sides of the ride module mounted in the coupling space and operates to run together with the mounted ride module or operates to run autonomously; and coupling guide blades which are respectively fastened to both sides of the main body and respectively include wheel module coupling holes for exposing the outer surfaces of the wheel modules.