Wheel-Blocking Guide Carriage Layout for Rear Beam Clearance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing guide and carriage systems for blocking truck wheels on loading and unloading platforms are inefficient in terms of compatibility and load distribution, leading to potential conflicts with truck rear beams and inadequate rainwater drainage.

Innovation Solution

The guide and carriage system features interlocking U-section housing parts with adapted shapes and sliding strips, allowing the carriage to fit snugly within the guide, with rolls that move along tracks and a spring-loaded axle system for optimal load distribution and easy unlocking, while ensuring compatibility with low-positioned truck bodywork and aerodynamic covers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If the guide and carriage system uses a conventional enclosed design, then the structural stability is improved, but the compatibility with low-positioned truck bodywork and aerodynamic covers deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidcompatibility with truck bodywork
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The guide housing is divided into two separate housing parts (first and second housing parts) that can be positioned at different heights. This segmentation allows the system to accommodate both low-positioned truck bodywork and maintain structural stability, resolving the contradiction between stability and adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a vertical dimension differentiation by positioning housing parts at different heights. The first housing part is positioned at a first height and the second at a second height, creating a multi-level structure that accommodates varying truck configurations while maintaining overall system stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Force

If the carriage housing parts are enclosed by guide housing parts, then the load distribution is improved, but the risk of conflict with truck rear beams increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveload distributionVSAvoidconflict with truck rear beams
Core Design Contradiction:
ForceVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The carriage is designed to be movable along the guide, allowing dynamic adjustment of its position. This mobility enables the carriage to adapt to different truck positions and avoid conflicts with rear beams while maintaining proper load distribution through the guide structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The separation of carriage and guide as distinct components allows the carriage to move independently along the guide. This segmentation provides the flexibility needed to avoid conflicts with truck rear beams while the guide maintains the load distribution function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If the carriage fits snugly within the guide housing parts, then the movement efficiency is improved, but the rainwater drainage capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemovement efficiencyVSAvoidrainwater drainage issue
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The guide housing is segmented into multiple parts positioned at different heights, creating spaces between them. These spaces allow rainwater to drain through while the carriage maintains efficient movement contact with the guide surfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

By positioning housing parts at different vertical heights, the patent creates vertical drainage pathways that allow rainwater to pass through the structure. This dimensional arrangement enables both snug carriage fitting for efficient movement and adequate drainage capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This design enhances load distribution and reduces the risk of conflicts with truck rear beams, ensures efficient movement and locking of the carriage, and allows for effective rainwater drainage, meeting safety and environmental regulations.

Implementation Method 1

the carriage is provided with one or more rolls, and by means of which the carriage is movable over the guide

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFriction: Friction

Implementation Method 2

a spring-loaded axle system for optimal load distribution

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentEP4046948A1Guide and carriage for application with a device for the blocking of the wheel of a truck on a lane in front of a loading and unloading platform
Publication Date: 2022.08.24 HORMANN ALKMAAR
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AI summary

Guide (6) extending from a road side to a façade side, and a carriage (10) provided with a locking arm (9) with rolls (11) or such like, by means of which the carriage (10) is movable along one or more tracks provided on the guide (6), for application with a device for the blocking of the wheel of a truck on a lane in front of a loading and unloading platform, characterized in that the carriage (10), as seen from the roadside towards the façade side, comprises a left carriage housing part (12) and a right carriage housing part (13), and whereby the guide (6), as seen from the road side towards the façade side comprises a left guide housing part (14) and a right guide housing part (15), and whereby the left carriage housing part (12) at least partly is taken up within the left guide housing part (14) or is enclosed thereby and/or whereby the right carriage housing part (13) at least partly is taken up within the right guide housing part (15) or is enclosed thereby.