Revolving Turret Emergency Hatch for Armored Vehicle Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing armored vehicles with revolving turrets lack a direct and safe means of communication and access between the turret and the vehicle's interior, limiting maintenance, ammunition replenishment, and emergency escape options.
Innovation Solution
An armor-plated emergency hatch at the bottom of the turret allows communication and access between the turret and the vehicle's cockpit, enabling personnel inside the vehicle to perform maintenance, replenish ammunition, and provide an additional escape route, while ensuring the turret does not intrude into the vehicle's hull.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the turret is separated from the vehicle interior for safety reasons, then safety is improved, but access and communication between turret and interior becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The invention introduces a hatch as a separate access component that divides the communication path into two secure segments: one from the interior to the hatch, and another from the hatch to the turret. This segmentation allows safe separation while maintaining controlled access points.
Solution Approach 2:
The hatch acts as an intermediary element between the vehicle interior and the turret. It provides a controlled interface that enables personnel to move between compartments while maintaining safety barriers, thus mediating the interaction between separated spaces.
2Strength
If traditional access methods are used, then structural integrity is maintained, but maintenance and ammunition replenishment become inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The hatch is pre-installed and integrated into the turret structure during manufacturing, creating a permanent access solution. This preliminary action eliminates the need for temporary modifications or complex access procedures during maintenance operations, thus improving efficiency without compromising structural integrity.
3Ease of operation
If the turret intrudes into the vehicle hull, then communication is improved, but safety and structural integrity are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of intruding horizontally into the vehicle hull, the invention provides vertical access through the hatch at the bottom of the turret. This dimensional change allows communication and access without compromising the horizontal structural integrity and safety separation of the vehicle hull.
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle provided with a revolving turret includes an armor-plated cockpit (2), a system for the motion of the central revolving turret (4) upon which a main armament (5) can be mounted. The turret is connected to the armor-plated cockpit of the vehicle of a circumferential fifth-wheel (8) which allows the revolving of the turret around a substantially vertical axis which passes through the center of the fifth-wheel. The base (9) of the turret presents a hatch (10) for communication between the interior of the turret and the interior of the cockpit (2) of the vehicle.