Modular Vehicle Container Housing for Damage-Resistant Shipping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional shipping techniques often result in damage to vehicles like boats due to improper fitting and non-secure configurations during transportation, making insurance and safe shipping challenging.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for loading vehicle components in a housed configuration within a container, transporting, unloading, and assembling them into an assembled configuration, allowing the container to be transported with the vehicle, and disassembling for further transportation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If boats are shipped in conventional containers using standard techniques, then shipping cost and accessibility are improved, but the probability of damage during shipping increases due to improper fitting and non-secure configurations
Solution Approach 1:
The boat is divided into multiple detachable components that can be separately loaded and secured in the container. This segmentation allows each component to be properly positioned and fastened, reducing damage risk while maintaining shipping accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
Boat components are designed to nest within each other or within the container structure when in the housed configuration, maximizing space utilization and ensuring secure positioning during transport, thereby reducing damage probability.
2Reliability
If boats are configured to fit securely in containers, then damage probability during shipping is reduced, but the device complexity and difficulty of assembly increase
Solution Approach 1:
The boat system is segmented into standardized modular components with uniform connection interfaces. This segmentation reduces assembly complexity by providing repeatable joining procedures while maintaining secure configurations that reduce damage probability.
Solution Approach 2:
The container and boat components are designed with universal interfaces and standardized connection mechanisms that work across different configurations. This universality simplifies assembly procedures while ensuring reliable, damage-reducing securement.
3Ease of operation
If boats are shipped in non-upright or ineffective positions due to sizing constraints, then shipping accessibility is improved, but the probability of damage increases due to non-secure configuration
Solution Approach 1:
The boat system is designed with dynamic reconfigurability, allowing components to be arranged in different orientations (including non-upright positions) while maintaining secure connections. This enables shipping accessibility in various container configurations without increasing damage probability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows changes in configuration parameters such as orientation and positioning of boat components within the container. By adjusting these parameters, the boat can be shipped in effective positions that maintain security and reduce damage while improving shipping accessibility.
Data Source
AI summary
A method is disclosed. The method includes loading a plurality of vehicle components in a housed configuration in a container, transporting the container containing the plurality of vehicle components in the housed configuration to a location, unloading the plurality of vehicle components from the container and assembling the plurality of vehicle components into an assembled configuration of a vehicle, disposing the container on the assembled configuration of the vehicle, and transporting the container from the location to a next location on the assembled configuration of the vehicle, and disassembling the plurality of vehicle components and loading the plurality of vehicle components in the housed configuration in the container at the next location.