Ride system: motion base on a turntable/segmented turntable
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Solution Overview
Problem
Simulation theaters face challenges in adapting to high passenger throughput, particularly in loading and unloading processes, which affects the overall user experience and operational efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A rotating indexed turntable amusement ride system featuring a closed track with statically determinate wagons equipped with multiple driven wheels and a motion base, allowing for optimized load distribution and independent motor control, coupled with simulation theaters that include screens and projectors for immersive experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If simulation theaters are used to provide high quality user experience, then simulation quality is improved, but passenger throughput deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the simulation experience into multiple independent wagons that can operate simultaneously on a closed track. Each wagon functions as an independent simulation theater, allowing multiple batches of passengers to experience simulations at the same time, thereby increasing overall throughput while maintaining quality
Solution Approach 2:
Passengers are pre-loaded into wagons at loading stations positioned at different locations around the closed track. This allows loading operations to be performed in advance and in parallel for multiple wagons, eliminating sequential bottlenecks and improving passenger throughput without compromising simulation quality
2Stability of the object's composition
If wagons are designed with multiple driven wheels for stable movement, then movement stability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Different wheels on the wagon serve different functions: outer wheels provide driven propulsion while inner wheels provide guidance and stability. This localized functional differentiation achieves stable movement through optimized load distribution without requiring all wheels to be complex driven units, thus controlling overall device complexity
3Productivity
If loading and unloading processes are optimized for high throughput, then passenger throughput is improved, but simulation quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the loading and unloading operations across multiple wagons operating in parallel on a closed track. This allows high throughput to be achieved through parallel processing while each individual simulation theater maintains its quality standards independently
Solution Approach 2:
The closed track system acts as an intermediary that efficiently transports loaded wagons to simulation positions and returns empty wagons to loading stations. This mediator enables rapid throughput operations without interfering with the quality of the simulation experience itself
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AI summary
Embodiment of turntables, which can include rotating indexed turntables are described herein. The rotating indexed turntable can include: a looped track having an inner rail and an outer rail; a plurality of adjacent turntable wagons linked together in a closed chain and movingly coupled to the looped track, wherein each of the turntable wagons are independently propelled along the looped track, each of the plurality of turntable wagons including: an inner portion having a first length; an outer portion having a second length, which second length is greater than the first length; a plurality of outer motion features movingly coupled to the outer rail of the looped track; and at least one inner motion feature movingly coupled to the inner rail of the looped track