Water Ride Boat-Rail Coupling for Anti-Capsize Realism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing amusement rides, particularly water rides, face challenges in providing a realistic ride experience while ensuring safety and optimizing throughput, with vehicles often tipping over due to passenger misbehavior and limited capacity for personalized experiences.
Innovation Solution
The amusement ride incorporates a rail guide system with actively driven vehicles that can travel counter to the direction of travel, featuring a buoyant boat connected to a rail vehicle via a connecting device allowing transverse and longitudinal movements, synchronized with animations and effects, and includes interactive waiting areas and control devices for personalized experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If vehicles are allowed to float freely to provide a realistic boat ride experience, then the realism of the ride is improved, but the safety deteriorates due to vehicles tipping over or capsizing
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting device acts as a counterbalancing mechanism between the buoyant boat and the rail vehicle. It allows the boat to float freely for realism while the rigid connection to the guided rail vehicle prevents capsizing by providing stabilizing support and controlling the boat's position relative to the rail.
Solution Approach 2:
The connecting device serves as an intermediary element between the buoyant boat and the rail vehicle. It transmits forces and movements between the two components, allowing the boat to experience natural water movements while being restrained from excessive motion that would cause capsizing.
2Adaptability or versatility
If vehicles are driven actively to enable personalized experiences and throughput optimization, then the operational flexibility is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The active drive system serves multiple functions: it propels the rail vehicle along the route, enables personalized speed control for different passengers, optimizes throughput by adjusting vehicle spacing, and allows counter-directional travel. This multi-functionality justifies the added complexity by delivering comprehensive operational flexibility.
3Reliability
If the boat is firmly connected to the rail vehicle to prevent capsizing, then the safety is improved, but the realism of the boat ride experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting device is designed with dynamic characteristics that allow controlled movement. It provides a firm connection for safety while permitting the boat to move naturally in response to water conditions and passenger movements, maintaining the realism of the boat ride experience through its flexible yet stabilizing connection.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enhances safety by preventing capsizing and allows for personalized and throughput-optimized operations, providing a realistic boat ride experience with interactive elements and synchronized animations.
Implementation Method 1
a buoyant boat (40) which is firmly connected to the rail vehicle (30) by means of a connecting device (25), allows the boat to float above the rail vehicle and allows limited transverse and/or longitudinal movements of the boat relative to the rail vehicle when the boat is afloat
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AI summary
The present invention relates to an amusement ride (1), in particular a water amusement ride, having at least one rail guide (10) with at least one vehicle (20), preferably at least two vehicles, which accommodate/s at least one passenger and which can travel, guided on the rail guide (10), a route (11) in a direction of travel, wherein the at least one vehicle (20) or one of the at least two vehicles (20) can be moved by an active drive (50, 60) counter to the direction of travel, at least in sections. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for operating such an amusement ride (1).