Payload Mount Platform With Flexible Wiring for Precise Rotation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mounting platforms for payloads on movable objects, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, are often large, heavy, and prone to entanglement due to wire-based electrical couplings, and lack precision control mechanisms, which hinders their performance in aerial applications.
Innovation Solution
A compact mounting platform design featuring flexible electrical members that wind or unwind orderly around support members, combined with integrated sensors for feedback control, allowing precise rotation and orientation of payloads along multiple axes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If wire-based electrical couplings are used in existing mounting platforms, then electrical connectivity is established, but the wires become easily entangled and interfere with platform operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the problematic wire-based electrical couplings from the mounting platform system. By extracting the electrical connectivity function and replacing it with a wireless communication system, the invention eliminates the entanglement issue while maintaining reliable electrical connection between platform components and the payload.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical wire-based electrical coupling system with an electronic wireless communication system. This substitution eliminates the physical wires that cause entanglement while maintaining the necessary electrical connectivity for power and data transmission between platform components.
2Reliability
If existing mounting platforms are designed with traditional structures, then payload support is provided, but the platforms become relatively large and heavy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs lightweight structural design principles using flexible support members instead of traditional rigid structures. These flexible members provide sufficient mechanical support for the payload while significantly reducing the overall platform weight, making the system more suitable for aerial vehicle applications where weight is critical.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the structural parameters of the mounting platform by transitioning from heavy traditional materials and structures to lightweight flexible materials. This parameter change in material composition and structural configuration maintains payload support capability while dramatically reducing platform weight.
3Device complexity
If drive controllers operate without feedback mechanisms in existing platforms, then simple control is achieved, but driving precision is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates feedback mechanisms into the drive controllers, where sensors detect the position and orientation of platform components and feed this information back to the controllers. This closed-loop feedback system enables precise control of payload spatial disposition while maintaining manageable system complexity through straightforward sensor-controller integration.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for supporting a payload includes a payload mount configured to be coupled to the payload to secure the payload, a first support member coupled to one side of the payload mount in a single arm configuration and including a first actuation unit configured to rotate the payload mount around a first rotational axis relative to the first support member, and a single flexible member including a branched configuration. The branched configuration includes at least a first end that is electrically coupled to the payload mount and a second end that is electrically coupled to the first actuation unit.