Unloading Door Container Layout for Bulky Aircraft Components
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transport and storage solutions for disassembled aircraft components face challenges in optimizing space utilization and efficient unloading, particularly for unmanned aircraft, due to large covers and separate storage racks requiring additional space that may not be available at all sites.
Innovation Solution
A transport and storage container with a base surface, end and side walls, a parallel roof, and pivoting unloading doors, allowing vertical lifting and pivoting of cargo, along with displaceable storage racks, to optimize space use and facilitate efficient unloading and assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a large cover with heavy-duty locks is used to ensure secure connection between cover and base plate, then security and reliability of cargo storage is improved, but device complexity and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the cover function with the side wall by making the side wall itself serve as the closing element. The unloading door is integrated into the side wall structure, eliminating the need for a separate large cover. This reduces device complexity while maintaining security through the robust side wall construction and locking mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the covering function from a separate component and assigns it to the side wall structure. By taking out the cover as a distinct element and instead using the side wall with integrated unloading door, the design simplifies the overall structure while maintaining protective and securing functions.
2Ease of operation
If separate storage racks are provided for cargo, then ease of operation and loading/unloading is improved, but device complexity and space utilization deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the storage function with the container body by providing arrangement points directly on the unloading door and base plate. This eliminates the need for separate storage racks, reducing device complexity while maintaining ease of operation through the integrated arrangement points that facilitate direct cargo placement and removal.
Solution Approach 2:
The unloading door serves multiple functions: it provides access to the container interior, offers arrangement points for cargo securing, and acts as a structural element of the container. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate storage racks while maintaining operational ease.
3Ease of operation
If complete unloading space is provided outside the container, then ease of operation for unloading is improved, but area of stationary object increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables vertical lifting and removal of cargo through the unloading door, utilizing the vertical dimension rather than requiring extensive horizontal space outside the container. This allows bulky or heavy cargo to be lifted out vertically, reducing the area needed for unloading operations while maintaining ease of operation.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a transport and storage container (100), comprising a container base surface (101) for holding cargo, end walls (104) and side walls (105) which surround the container base surface (101), and a container roof (106) which closes off the transport and storage container (100) at the top and is arranged spaced apart from and parallel to the container base surface (101), wherein at least one side wall (105) has an unloading door (109a, b) and at least one arrangement point for further cargo is provided on a door surface of the unloading door (109a, b) that faces a container interior (112), to a method for unloading the transport and storage container (100), and to an arrangement comprising at least two transport and storage containers (100).