Modular Rolling Base With Reversible Screw Fixing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing rolling bases are inflexible and cannot easily adapt to various configurations of parts or goods to be transported, limiting their versatility in industrial and workshop settings.

Innovation Solution

A modular rolling base with a frame comprising welded tubes and plates, allowing for reversible screwing of elements such as a drawbar, push bar, and wheels, enabling easy disassembly and reassembly to accommodate different configurations and needs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If a rolling base uses fixed welding attachment for components, then manufacturing precision and structural strength are improved, but adaptability and ease of reconfiguration deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural strengthVSAvoidadaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The rolling base is divided into modular components (chassis, platform, drawbar, casters, coupling devices) that can be independently attached and detached. The chassis serves as a common base with standardized attachment points, allowing different component configurations for different applications while maintaining structural integrity through standardized strong connections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The attachment system transitions from fixed to dynamic/reconfigurable. Components are designed with attachment and detachment capabilities, allowing the rolling base to be reconfigured from a fixed state to a flexible state where components can be added, removed, or repositioned based on operational requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If a rolling base uses reversible screwing attachment for components, then adaptability and ease of reconfiguration are improved, but manufacturing precision and structural strength deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoidstructural strength
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The rolling base is divided into modular components (chassis, platform, drawbar, casters, coupling devices) that can be independently attached and detached. The chassis serves as a common base with standardized attachment points, allowing different component configurations for different applications while maintaining structural integrity through standardized strong connections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The attachment system transitions from fixed to dynamic/reconfigurable. Components are designed with attachment and detachment capabilities, allowing the rolling base to be reconfigured from a fixed state to a flexible state where components can be added, removed, or repositioned based on operational requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of manufacture

If a rolling base design is simplified for easy manufacturing, then ease of manufacture is improved, but adaptability to various configurations deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of manufactureVSAvoidadaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The chassis is designed as a universal base with standardized attachment points and hole patterns that can accommodate multiple component types and configurations. This simple, standardized chassis design is easy to manufacture yet provides extensive adaptability through the variety of components that can be attached to it in different arrangements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The rolling base is divided into modular components (chassis, platform, drawbar, casters, coupling devices) that can be independently attached and detached. The chassis serves as a common base with standardized attachment points, allowing different component configurations for different applications while maintaining structural integrity through standardized strong connections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3257720B1Modular wheel base for transport
Publication Date: 2021.10.06 RENAULT SA
  • EP3257720B1 patent drawingFigure 1A~1B
  • EP3257720B1 patent drawingFigure 2A~2B
  • EP3257720B1 patent drawingFigure 3~10

AI summary

The invention relates to a rolling base (1) having a chassis (2) comprising tubes (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) and plates (18, 19, 20). The main characteristic of a rolling base according to the invention is that said tubes (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) and said plates (18, 19, 20) are welded and are drilled with holes to allow for the screw fixing of several elements including a drawbar (5), a push bar (4), a manual hitch (6), a foot hitch (7), at least one drain (9), at least one anti-tip device (10), an extension (8) and at least one caster wedge (42).