Prefabricated Platform Positioning for Millimeter-Accurate Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional structural facilities along traffic routes, such as platforms, are inflexible and require adaptability to meet modern transport requirements, often resulting in gaps between vehicles and facilities due to changes in vehicle types or traffic routes, compromising safety and comfort.

Innovation Solution

A prefabricated platform system comprising functional bodies, foundation bodies, and positioning devices that allow for millimeter-accurate horizontal and vertical displacement using mechanisms like hydraulic presses and threaded spindles, enabling quick and precise repositioning without permanent installation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If conventional structural facilities are made unchangeable in position, then structural stability is ensured, but adaptability to changing transport requirements deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidadaptability to transport changes
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the platform system movable and adjustable rather than fixed. The positioning device with hydraulic presses and threaded spindles enables the functional body to be dynamically repositioned horizontally and vertically, allowing the structure to adapt to changing transport requirements while maintaining stability during operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the platform system into distinct components: functional body, foundation body, and positioning device. This segmentation allows independent adjustment of each component, enabling the platform to be repositioned without affecting the overall structural integrity or requiring complete reconstruction

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If prefabricated platforms are lifted with cranes for height adjustment, then height adaptability is achieved, but track closure is required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheight adjustabilityVSAvoidtrack closure time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a positioning device as an intermediary mechanism between the functional body and foundation body. This positioning device with integrated lifting and displacement capabilities allows platform adjustment without requiring external cranes, thereby avoiding track closure while achieving the same height adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the lifting function and horizontal displacement function into a single integrated positioning device. The hydraulic press provides vertical adjustment while threaded spindles provide horizontal adjustment, combining multiple adjustment functions in one system that operates without track closure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If platforms are raised by placing on top or filling with foam, then height adjustment is achieved, but subsequent reconstruction is required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheight adjustment capabilityVSAvoidreconstruction requirement
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs dynamic, reversible adjustment mechanisms (hydraulic presses and threaded spindles) that allow the platform to be raised and lowered multiple times without permanent modification. This eliminates the need for reconstruction after initial installation, as the positioning device can be readjusted as needed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The positioning device is designed to be self-contained and self-adjusting, with the hydraulic press and threaded spindle mechanisms capable of performing height adjustment without external intervention or subsequent reconstruction work. The system serves its own adjustment needs through integrated mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

4Adaptability or versatility

If permanent displacement mechanisms are installed for lateral displacement, then horizontal positionability is achieved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehorizontal positionabilityVSAvoidpermanent mechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses a positioning device as a temporary intermediary mechanism rather than a permanent integrated component. The hydraulic press and threaded spindles serve as portable positioning tools that can be installed, used for adjustment, and removed, avoiding the complexity of permanent displacement mechanisms while achieving the same horizontal positionability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent achieves horizontal displacement by changing the position parameters of the functional body relative to the foundation body using adjustable mechanisms. The threaded spindles provide precise parameter control for horizontal positioning without requiring complex permanent structural modifications

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

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 flexible, rapid, and precise repositioning of structural facilities with millimeter accuracy, reducing the need for track closures and maintenance, and adapting to changing transport conditions.

Implementation Method 1

mechanisms like hydraulic presses and threaded spindles

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHydraulic press: Hydraulic Press

Implementation Method 2

mechanisms like hydraulic presses and threaded spindles

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectThreaded spindle: Screw

Data Source

PatentEP4610430A1Rapid installationable precisely positionable systems of structural devices and methods
Publication Date: 2025.09.03 HERING BAU
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AI summary

Methods and devices for the horizontal and vertical displacement of stationary structural facilities, in particular platforms, prefabricated systems and kits.