Rotating Bumper Plate for Fluid Impact Load Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current technologies fail to effectively mitigate sloshing, slamming, and ice collision impacts on fluid cargo during transportation, leading to structural damage and limitations in cargo load due to irregular sloshing loads and uncertainties in environmental forces.

Innovation Solution

A system featuring a bumper plate fixed to a transportation means' inner wall, capable of rotating in multiple directions, combined with a floating means and position adjustment system, which includes buoyant bodies and mat members with specific gravities and patterns to minimize sloshing and impact loads, and a sensing system to monitor and control these forces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If conventional sloshing inhibition devices are used, then some sloshing reduction is achieved, but the sloshing load remains irregular and too big to be effectively blocked

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesloshing loadVSAvoidsloshing control effectiveness

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The bumper plate is designed to rotate about Y-axis and Z-axis dynamically in response to fluid sloshing movements. This dynamic rotation capability allows the bumper plate to adapt its orientation to different sloshing patterns and directions, making it effective against irregular and multidirectional sloshing loads that static structures cannot handle.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The sloshing control system is divided into multiple functional components: the bumper plate for direct impact absorption, the fixed axis for rotational movement, and the support structure for mounting. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized for its specific function while working together to provide comprehensive sloshing protection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Strength

If the transportation device is designed to withstand expected sloshing load, then structural integrity is maintained, but cargo load must be limited due to uncertainty of sloshing load

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural integrityVSAvoidcargo load

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The bumper plate is installed in advance within the transportation device to proactively counteract sloshing loads before they can damage the structure. This preliminary protective measure allows the device to be designed for normal operating loads rather than having to accommodate extreme sloshing scenarios, thereby increasing cargo capacity while maintaining structural integrity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Device complexity

If a fixed bumper plate is used, then结构简单 (structure is simple), but it cannot adapt to different directions and magnitudes of impact load

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructure complexityVSAvoidimpact load adaptation

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

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

The system significantly reduces impact loads from sloshing, slamming, and ice collisions, allowing for optimized cargo handling and structural integrity by dynamically adjusting to fluid movements and environmental conditions.

Implementation Method 1

the bumper plate is adapted to rotate in the up, down, left, or right direction of the transportations means

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectRotation:

Implementation Method 2

a support protrudes from the inner wall, and the fixed axis is arranged at an end of the support, enabling rotation movement

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectBuoyancy: Archimedes' Principle (Buoyancy)

Data Source

PatentEP3406513B1System for controlling impact load resulting from fluid under internal/external force in specific environment

Publication Date: 2023.08.23 CYTRONIQ

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AI summary

Disclosed is a system for controlling an impact load resulting from a fluid under an internal/external force in a specific environment, the system capable of both sensing an impact load, including sloshing, slamming, and ice collision, related to a fluid under an internal/external force in a specific environment and efficiently attenuating the impact load, including sloshing, slamming, and ice collision, related to the fluid under an internal/external force in a specific environment.