Tilting Platform Handling Device for Vehicle Bodywork Dipping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices for handling motor vehicle bodyworks during processing operations are inefficient in removing air bubbles, require operators to work in an unfavorable posture, and do not allow for easy adjustment of gripping arms or vertical arrangement of bodyworks, leading to suboptimal processing and storage conditions.
Innovation Solution
A handling device equipped with wheels, a U-shaped framework, winch assemblies, and a tilting platform that can be rotated and adjusted to facilitate dipping, turning, and withdrawing of bodyworks, allowing for ergonomic operation and reduced storage pitch.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If bodyworks are dipped into processing basins, then processing operations can be performed, but air bubbles remain inside the bodyworks
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is designed to be tiltable and rotatable, allowing the bodywork to be dynamically repositioned from a horizontal dipping position to a vertical processing position. This dynamic adjustment enables complete submersion of the bodywork in the processing fluid, ensuring that air bubbles are completely removed from inside the bodywork cavity while maintaining high processing quality.
2Productivity
If operators work on bodyworks at fixed height, then operations can be performed, but operators work in unfavorable posture
Solution Approach 1:
The platform provides dynamic positioning capabilities through tilting and rotation, allowing operators to adjust the bodywork to optimal angles for different operations. This enables operators to work in ergonomic postures while maintaining high processing efficiency, as the platform can be adjusted to any required orientation rather than requiring fixed-height operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform introduces rotational and tilting degrees of freedom, transforming the operation from a fixed two-dimensional plane to a three-dimensional adjustable space. This allows operators to access the bodywork from optimal angles and postures, significantly improving ease of operation while maintaining productivity.
3Reliability
If gripping arms are fixed at desired level, then gripping can be performed, but adjustment is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The gripping arms are integrated with the tiltable and rotatable platform, allowing them to be dynamically adjusted to any position and orientation. This dynamic adjustment mechanism ensures that gripping arms can be easily repositioned to accommodate different bodywork sizes and positions while maintaining reliable gripping performance.
4Productivity
If bodyworks are stored horizontally, then storage can be performed, but stacking pitch is large
Solution Approach 1:
The platform enables bodyworks to be stored in a vertical position rather than horizontally, utilizing the tilting and rotation capabilities. This vertical storage arrangement significantly reduces the stacking pitch and increases storage density, allowing more bodyworks to be stored in the same volume while maintaining productivity.
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AI summary
A device (1) for driving, dipping and turning bodyworks of motor vehicles, vans, truck cabs and metal article vessels, into processing basin, and for withdrawing the above elements from the processing basins, comprises a slidable framework (5), which can slide on sliding rails (4), supporting a pair of arms (10) bearing, at free end portions thereof, a swinging shaft (11) adapted to bear a supporting skid (32) for supporting a bodywork, the sliding framework (5) comprising at least a winch (7) driving a drum (8), for winding a rope (9) coupled to a respective arm at the swinging shaft, the slidable framework further comprises at least a rack (6), therealong an end portion of the respective arms coupled to framework slides.