In-building storage guide rail sliding mechanism
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing in-building storage apparatuses face challenges in efficiently retrieving articles from underfloor storage units due to complex mechanisms required for perpendicular wheel movement at corners, leading to cumbersome operations and limited accessibility, especially when multiple articles are stored.
Innovation Solution
The apparatus features a guide rail system with a platform car that allows linear movement, enabling the platform car to pass below suspended articles, and a control unit that facilitates sliding movement of the guide rail to reach target articles without the need for complex wheel structures, allowing for easy retrieval of articles from underfloor storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the carriage is designed to perpendicularly turn at corners to access target storage containers, then the carriage can reach all storage positions, but the wheel structure becomes complex and difficult to manufacture
Solution Approach 1:
The guide rail is designed to be movable rather than fixed, allowing it to slide horizontally to reposition itself. This dynamic adjustment eliminates the need for complex perpendicular turning mechanisms at corners, as the guide rail can simply move to align with the target storage container position.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of solving the corner turning problem in the vertical plane (requiring perpendicular wheel turns), the invention adds horizontal movement capability to the guide rail system. By moving the guide rail horizontally before reaching the target, the carriage avoids the need for complex vertical turning maneuvers.
2Volume of stationary object
If multiple storage containers are suspended from rails, then storage volume increases, but moving all containers becomes difficult and labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses automated control where the guide rail automatically moves to the correct position and the carriage retrieves the target container without requiring manual intervention to move other containers. The system serves itself by autonomously positioning components to facilitate easy retrieval.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention extracts the movement function from manual operation and assigns it to the automated guide rail system. The guide rail automatically repositions itself to access target containers, eliminating the need for workers to physically move multiple suspended containers.
3Device complexity
If the platform car moves linearly along the guide rail, then the structure is simplified, but accessing target articles requires the guide rail to slide to the correct position
Solution Approach 1:
The guide rail performs preliminary movement to slide horizontally to the correct position before the carriage begins its linear travel to the target article. This pre-positioning action ensures that when the carriage moves linearly, it can do so directly to the target without unnecessary detours or complex maneuvers.
Data Source
AI summary
The in-building storage apparatus includes a guide rail mounted in a storage space in which articles are stored, and making slidal movement in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which main rails extend, a platform car including a travelling section for running on the guide rail, and a lifting/lowering section which lifts or lowers an article, suspenders each of which suspends an article at such a height that the platform car can pass therebelow, and a control unit having functions of causing the guide rail to make slidal movement, causing the platform car to move along the guide rail, causing the lifting/lowering section to lift or lower for taking a target article out of the suspenders, and causing a target article to be suspended by the suspenders.