Modular Pallet Board With Locking Sockets For Multi-Stringer Load Capacity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current modular pallets are limited to accepting only three modular stringers, which restricts their load-carrying capacity and rigidity.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates a novel arrangement of boards and stringers, allowing for the use of more than three stringers by adding additional stringers and utilizing mating sections with locking sockets and grooves for enhanced coupling, increasing load-carrying capacity without significant complexity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If more than three stringers are added to increase load-carrying capacity and rigidity, then the structural performance is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pallet is divided into modular components (stringers, boards, locking sockets, grooves) that can be independently manufactured and assembled. This segmentation allows for easy expansion from three to more stringers without redesigning the entire structure, resolving the contradiction by enabling complexity only when needed while maintaining simplicity in the basic three-stringer configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The locking socket and groove mechanism serves multiple functions: it connects boards to stringers, enables expansion to additional stringers, and provides a standardized interface for assembly. This universal connection system allows the same basic components to work whether there are three or more stringers, preventing complexity increase when adding stringers.
2Stability of the object's composition
If more than three stringers are added to increase rigidity, then the structural stability is improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the pallet into standardized stringers, boards, and connection elements (locking sockets and grooves), each component can be manufactured independently using the same processes. This allows rigid multi-stringer configurations to be manufactured with the same ease as simpler configurations, as long as the modular components are produced.
Solution Approach 2:
The number of stringers can be changed as a parameter without changing the manufacturing process for individual components. The same locking socket and groove design works whether connecting two boards to three stringers or to five stringers, allowing rigidity to be adjusted by changing the number of components rather than changing how each component is manufactured.
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AI summary
A board for a modular pallet including spaced apart mating sections that include tab sections including angled portions along the edges, and inboard facing shoulders spaced from the ends of the boards and adjacent to the tab sections, and a modular pallet including the board.