CN217894153U - A transport mother car for plugging into haulage equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a transport mother car for plugging into haulage equipment, transport mother car include the automobile body and be located the wheelset of automobile body bottom, and the automobile body top surface is the objective table face that is used for putting son car or article, transport mother car still includes the electricity connection port that is located objective table face, the wheelset is including the mother car driving wheel that is located the automobile body bottom; the power connection port is electrically connected to a driving motor of each mother vehicle running wheel. The carrying platform surface of the carrying mother vehicle is provided with a guide rail on which the son vehicle can walk, and the carrying mother vehicle is provided with a push-pull mechanism for pushing the son vehicle to the connection platform surface or pulling the son vehicle to the carrying platform surface. The utility model provides a transport mother's car can solve the transport of refuting of the short of article in the garden more high-efficiently, reduces heavy load equipment, reduces the required manpower of loading goods, reduces the operation cost of enterprise, reduces the potential safety hazard.

Description

Mother carrying vehicle for transfer equipment

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of logistics equipment, in particular to a mother transport vehicle for a transfer transport device.

Background

In industrial parks, such as parks for e-commerce logistics or parks where manufacturing and processing enterprises aggregate, it is necessary to frequently transport items from one node to the next. Many times of short-distance transportation of articles is required. Under the condition that the quantity of the articles is large and the weight is large, the existing equipment and the carrier have defects and are difficult to meet the requirement of quick and convenient connection and carrying.

Transport equipment is mostly electronic fork truck, van transport, electronic flatbed etc. in the garden in the market at present, to the transport of heavy goods, needs fork truck cooperation van to carry, need consume a large amount of manpowers and equipment, has improved the operation cost of enterprise. For example, when using electric flatbeds, efficiency is reduced because the vehicle needs to be shut down for charging when the battery is dead. In addition, the electric flat car also needs to be equipped with special personnel for operation and maintenance, and certain potential safety hazards exist.

There is a need for a more convenient docking transfer apparatus that can accommodate transfer of articles from a campus, and the applicant has developed a master-slave vehicle type transfer apparatus in which a master-slave vehicle that can be used to transfer the slave vehicle and can dock with each docking station is needed.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve or alleviate not enough among the prior art, this disclosure has proposed a transport mother car for plugging into haulage equipment, through using according to the utility model discloses a transport mother car can cooperate with other devices, realizes the short distance transport of article and plugs into.

According to one aspect of the disclosure, a carrying mother vehicle for connecting carrying equipment is provided, the carrying mother vehicle comprises a vehicle body and a wheel set positioned at the bottom of the vehicle body, the top surface of the vehicle body is a carrying table surface for placing a child vehicle or an article, the carrying mother vehicle further comprises an electric connection port positioned on the carrying table surface, and the wheel set comprises a mother vehicle running wheel positioned at the bottom of the vehicle body; the power connection port is electrically connected to a driving motor of each mother vehicle running wheel.

In a preferred embodiment of the transporting parent vehicle according to the present disclosure, the loading platform of the transporting parent vehicle may be arranged with a rail on which the child vehicle travels, and the transporting parent vehicle is provided with a push-pull mechanism for pushing or pulling the child vehicle to the docking platform.

In one embodiment, the push-pull mechanism may comprise: a push-pull motor arranged inside the vehicle body; a push-pull guide fixed on the carrying platform surface of the carrying mother vehicle; the flexible transmission part is driven by a push-pull motor and is configured to reciprocate between the inner side edge of the carrying mother vehicle close to the connection table and the outer side edge far away from the connection table; and a push-pull hanging piece fixed on the flexible transmission piece.

Alternatively, the flexible transmission member may be a chain, the push-pull guide member may be a pair of mutually parallel push-pull brackets with a chain driving wheel and a chain driven wheel arranged inside the guide rail, and the two chains serving as the flexible transmission members are respectively mounted on the push-pull brackets and configured to be movable in synchronization; the push-pull hanging piece is a cross rod fixed between the chains.

Preferably, in a carrying parent vehicle according to the present disclosure, the wheel set of the parent vehicle further comprises a universal wheel arranged below the vehicle body. The handling parent vehicle may further include a parent vehicle battery located inside the vehicle body, the parent vehicle battery being electrically connected to the push-pull motor.

In one embodiment of the mother carrier according to the present disclosure, the mother carrier may have a flat cubic configuration, and the mother carrier includes 4 driving wheels at 4 corners of a carrier body and 4 universal wheels at inner sides of the driving wheels, and the universal wheels are located at a bottom of the carrier body and at a middle portion. Each driving wheel is independently connected with a corresponding driving motor and a corresponding steering motor.

By using the carrying parent car according to the present disclosure, the beneficial effects obtained are at least: more enough mutually support with other devices, realize the transport of refuting of the short of tray and/goods in the garden more high-efficiently, reduce the equipment that article need in the garden handling, reduce the required manpower of loading goods, reduce the operation cost of enterprise, reduce the potential safety hazard.

Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and in part will become apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the objects and advantages that can be achieved with the present invention are not limited to the details set forth above, and that these and other objects that can be achieved with the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principle of the invention. The components in the figures are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the invention. For convenience in illustrating and describing some portions of the present invention, corresponding parts of the drawings may be exaggerated, i.e., may be larger, relative to other components in an exemplary device actually manufactured according to the present invention. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an overall construction of one embodiment of a parent vehicle according to the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the overall structure of the mother vehicle shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is an overall perspective view showing the use of a transfer truck according to the present application for transferring a parent car;

fig. 4 is a perspective view of a part of a mother carrier of the transfer apparatus of fig. 2;

fig. 5 is a schematic partial perspective view of a docked handling apparatus using a handling parent car according to the present disclosure, showing a portion of a push-pull mechanism.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more clearly understood, the embodiments of the present invention are described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The exemplary embodiments and descriptions of the present invention are provided to explain the present invention, but not to limit the present invention.

It should be noted that, in order to avoid obscuring the present invention with unnecessary details, only the structures and/or processing steps closely related to the solution according to the present invention are shown in the drawings, and other details not relevant to the present invention are omitted.

It should be emphasized that, in this disclosure, unless specifically stated or otherwise indicated, the term "comprises/comprising/comprises" when used herein refers to the presence of features, elements, steps or components but does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, elements, steps or components.

The term "coupled" herein may mean not only directly coupled, but also indirectly coupled, in which case intermediates may be present, if not specifically stated. A direct connection is one in which two elements are connected without the aid of intermediate elements, and an indirect connection is one in which two elements are connected with the aid of other elements.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, like reference characters designate the same or similar parts throughout the several views.

The present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the terms of orientation appearing in the present specification refer to the directions of positions shown in the drawings, and the expressions of relative positions such as "inner", "outer", "inner", "outer" and the like referred to in the following description refer to the directions of the docking station shown in the drawings as inner and inner sides, and the side on which the mother vehicle is carried as outer or outer side. It will be appreciated that the actual orientation and relative positioning of the various components may vary depending upon where the viewer is positioned and the particular location of the various devices.

In order to solve the problem of transfer transportation of goods, commodities, semi-finished products and other articles in an industrial park or a logistics park, a forklift, a van, a flat car and the like are required to be used in the prior art. In particular, in view of the requirements of low carbon and environmental protection, more electric forklifts, electric trucks, electric flat cars and the like are also used gradually. In practice, however, the docking of an electric forklift between different vehicles can be labor intensive and costly. Moreover, none of these devices are designed specifically for docking cargo on the campus, which still requires a significant amount of manpower, and the high power electric vehicles on the campus are typically charged by shutting down their operation after the batteries are exhausted. This is disadvantageous in improving working and carrying efficiency.

When transporting articles, the articles are usually placed on a pallet of a standard size, and then the pallet is transported together to a designated location or a target transit vehicle.

The inventor designs a transfer equipment for garden, in this transfer equipment, utilized the transfer robot that can load and unload from (transport primary car and secondary car), realized to the goods especially adopt the short transport of plugging into of the goods of tray transport, can realize the auto-control handling of goods between the platform of plugging into and the haulage vehicle to reduce the required manpower of loading goods, reduced enterprise's operation cost.

In the transfer handling apparatus according to the present application, a child car and a handling parent car are included. The sub-cart may be used to place goods or items to be handled. Typically, goods or items are handled using pallets. Preferably, the carrying surface of the sub-vehicle is an integral multiple of the floor area of the tray. The sub-vehicle is used for storing the tray, and the sub-vehicle can move from the connection table board to the carrying main vehicle through a push-pull mechanism of the carrying main vehicle; the movement from one docking station to the next is realized by carrying the travel of the parent vehicle in the park (similar to an AGV (automatic navigation vehicle) or a heavy-load AGV); after the primary transport vehicle reaches the position, the secondary transport vehicle is pushed to a docking station such as a platform through a push-pull mechanism, and therefore transport of goods in the park is achieved.

Specifically, referring to fig. 3, in one embodiment of a docking transfer apparatus using a transfer parent car according to the present disclosure, the docking transfer apparatus may include: a sub-vehicle 100 having a sub-vehicle battery 140 and sub-vehicle running wheels; the docking stations 300 are distributed at different positions of the park, and each docking station 300 is provided with a docking table surface for parking and walking of a sub-vehicle and a charging pile 320 for the sub-vehicle; the primary carrying vehicle 200 comprises a carrying table surface which is butted with the docking table surface and used for placing the secondary vehicle, an electric connection port 220 and a primary vehicle running wheel 230; the child car 100 is provided with a charging port for being docked with the charging pile 320 and a discharging port 120 for being docked with the power connection port 220, and the power connection port 220 is electrically connected to the driving motor 250 of the carrying parent car, so that when the discharging port 120 of the child car 100 is docked with the power connection port 220, the battery of the child car provides electric energy for the driving motor 250 of the carrying parent car.

In the preferred embodiment shown in fig. 1 to 3, only the power output port 321 of the charging pile is shown, and the charging port of the blocked sub-vehicle is not shown.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the present disclosure provides a primary transporting vehicle 200 for docking transporting equipment, the primary transporting vehicle includes a vehicle body and wheel sets located at the bottom of the vehicle body, the top surface of the vehicle body is a loading platform surface for placing a secondary vehicle or an object, the primary transporting vehicle further includes an electrical connection port 220 located at the loading platform surface, and the wheel sets include primary vehicle running wheels 230 located at the bottom of the vehicle body; the power connection port 220 is electrically connected to a driving motor of each mother vehicle running wheel.

In a preferred embodiment of the primary transporting vehicle according to the present disclosure, the stage surface of the primary transporting vehicle may be arranged with a rail 260 on which the secondary vehicle travels, and the primary transporting vehicle is provided with a push-pull mechanism 270 for pushing or pulling the secondary vehicle 100 to the docking stage surface.

In one embodiment, as best shown in fig. 3, the push-pull mechanism 270 described above may include: a push-pull motor 271 arranged on the carrying mother vehicle; a push-pull guide 272 fixed to the surface of the carrier of the mother vehicle; a flexible transmission (such as a chain or a cable) driven by the push-pull motor 271 and reciprocating between the inner side edge of the carrying mother vehicle close to the docking station and the outer side edge far from the docking station; and a push-pull hitch 273 secured to the flexible drive member.

Alternatively, the flexible drive member may be a chain and the push-pull guide member may be a pair of mutually parallel push-pull brackets 272 with a chain drive wheel and a chain driven wheel arranged inside the track of the carrier surface. Two chains acting as flexible transmission members are respectively installed on the push-pull bracket 272 and configured to be movable in synchronization; the push-pull hitch 273 is a cross bar fixed between the chains.

Preferably, in the transporting parent vehicle according to the present disclosure, the wheel set of the transporting parent vehicle further includes universal wheels 231 disposed under the vehicle body.

In one embodiment of the handling cart according to the present disclosure, the handling cart may have a flat cubic configuration, and the handling cart may include 4 driving wheels at 4 corners of the cart body and 4 universal wheels at the bottom of the cart body, inside the driving wheels, at a middle position. Preferably, each driving wheel is individually connected with a corresponding driving motor 250 and steering motor 251.

Preferably, such as in the examples shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, the handling parent car may further comprise a parent car battery 240, which is also electrically connected to the power port 220, and the parent car battery may be configured such that when the discharge port 120 of the child car is docked with the power port 220, the child car battery 140 charges the parent car battery 240. The parent vehicle battery may be electrically connected to the push-pull motor 271 to power the push-pull mechanism.

Although in the preferred embodiment shown in the drawings, the rails and tracks are shown on both the docking table top of the docking station and the carrier table top of the carrying parent car. This view is intended to show a preferred embodiment, however, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the rails and tracks may not be provided on either the docking station or the parent carrier.

When the goods in garden were carried and was plugged into, need accumulate certain quantity article and concentrate the transport again usually, the dwell time of son car at the platform of plugging into is longer usually to just in time utilize the dwell time of son car at the platform of plugging into, charge to the son car battery.

In a preferred embodiment of the docking conveyor according to the present application, as best shown in fig. 1 to 3, the child car itself is not provided with any driving mechanism, and the movement of the child car itself is achieved by a push-pull mechanism that conveys the parent car; the battery of son car self is as carrying the required battery of mother car power, has avoided carrying mother car to consume the time to charge, has saved the required time of carrying mother car parking and charging.

In the sub-vehicle mutually matched with the main carrying vehicle, only a battery for carrying the main vehicle is arranged in the main vehicle body frame of the sub-vehicle, and a plurality of goods trays or carrying structures for carrying goods can be arranged on the top surface of the sub-vehicle.

Preferably, in a preferred embodiment of the docking handling apparatus according to the present disclosure, as shown in fig. 1 to 3, wherein fig. 3 is best shown, the docking station 300 may have a first rail 360 and the stage surface 210 of the handling parent car 200 may be arranged with a rail 260. The first track 360 and the guide rail 260 are arranged to be mutually dockable. The primary carrier 200 is provided with a push-pull mechanism 270 for pushing the secondary carrier 100 to the docking table 310 or pulling the secondary carrier to the loading table 210, and the secondary carrier is provided with a clamping member 170 for matching with the push-pull mechanism.

Preferably, the carrier parent car battery 240 is used as a driving power source for the push-pull mechanism. The power source for the walking power for carrying the parent vehicle is preferably taken from the battery of the child vehicle.

Specifically, in the push-pull mechanism for one embodiment of the docking handling apparatus of the present application, the sub-cart snap 170 may be a lug provided with a groove that is form-fitted with the cross bar, the lug being fixed to the outer edge of the sub-cart body.

When the female car 200 of transport leans on the side of the platform of plugging into, the horizontal pole that acts as push-and-pull hanging connector among the push-and-pull mechanism of the female car of transport moves from bottom to top, promotes the recess of the lug that is located the outer fringe of sub-car in, then the horizontal pole is under the effect of push-and-pull motor and chain, outside horizontal movement to drive lug and sub-car wholly outwards remove along the track, on the whole female car of transport that is all pulled to of sub-car. After the whole sub-vehicle is used for carrying the carrying table top of the main vehicle, the discharge port of the sub-vehicle is in butt joint with the power connection port, and therefore the battery of the sub-vehicle can provide electric energy for the push-pull motor used for carrying the main vehicle. And the primary transport vehicle transports the secondary transport vehicle to another docking station.

After reaching the other docking station, the mother carrier first abuts on a predetermined position of the docking station surface, and the first rail 360 and the guide rail 260 are docked. The cross bar moves towards the inner side under the action of the push-pull motor and the chain, so that the lugs and the sub-vehicles are pushed to the connection table. When the whole son vehicle is on the connecting table board, the cross bar moves downwards along with the chain when reaching the inner side edge of the carrying mother vehicle, and the cross bar leaves the groove of the lug of the son vehicle and is separated from the son vehicle.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, preferably, the lugs of the secondary cart may be a pair, which is matched with the cross bars arranged on the chain at two ends of the carrying primary cart. The chain is mounted on a push-pull bracket (referenced 272). The two push-pull brackets are parallel to each other, and chain wheels are arranged at two ends of the push-pull brackets. The chain is arranged on a chain wheel of the push-pull bracket in a closed-loop mode and can reciprocate under the driving of the push-pull motor. Preferably, the two ends of the push-pull bracket are provided with through holes for the chain to enter the inner side of the mother vehicle, so that the lower part of the chain is arranged inside the body of the mother vehicle and below the push-pull bracket.

In order to improve the handling efficiency, it is preferable that in the docking handling apparatus according to the present disclosure, a plurality of sub-carts capable of being handled to different docking decks may be included, and a plurality of mother carts may be included.

A carrying mother vehicle can work with a plurality of son vehicles in a coordinated mode. The primary carrying vehicle runs and carries by using the batteries of the secondary vehicles, and after one secondary vehicle is in place, the primary carrying vehicle can be matched with the other secondary vehicle, so that continuous operation can be realized. The sub-cart placed in the docking station may be charged for the next use. In contrast, a common heavy AGV requires intermittent job charging.

Preferably, the child car and the mother car may each be of a flat cubic configuration, and the mother car may include 4 drive wheels, each powered by a respective travel motor 250 and provided with a separate reversing mechanism. Further preferably, the battery capacity and output power of the subsidiary vehicle may be configured to be larger than those of the carrying parent vehicle.

Four driving wheels for carrying the mother vehicle are all-directional driving wheels, namely, each power wheel for carrying the mother vehicle is provided with a steering driving mechanism and a steering mechanism, so that the original-site rotation, arc rotation, original-site straight movement, original-site translation and the like of the mother vehicle can be realized. Thereby be convenient for carry female car and the platform butt joint of plugging into and support and lean on. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that any suitable steer-drive mechanism may be used in carrying the parent car. In this embodiment, 4 motors are provided, and the conveyance of heavy-duty articles can be realized with a small power.

The carrying parent car can realize the forward and backward movement of the trolley through the output of the power motor; the rotation of the trolley is realized through the rotating motor. Preferably, the carrying parent vehicle is provided with 1 battery as a standby power source for carrying the parent vehicle, and the battery of the subsidiary vehicle is used as a power source commonly used for carrying the parent vehicle.

Through adopting according to this application female car of transport, through cooperating with other equipment, can solve the transport of the goods of many tons of grades in the garden, can realize the auto-control handling of the son car that has the tray, can need not to use equipment such as fork truck, transfer chain, van. The equipment realizes unmanned and automatic logistics transfer in the industrial application, and can independently and autonomously complete the work of taking and placing goods, so that the production cost is reduced, and the industrial economic benefit is improved.

Claims (7)

1. A carrying mother vehicle for transferring carrying equipment comprises a vehicle body and wheel sets positioned at the bottom of the vehicle body, wherein the top surface of the vehicle body is a carrying table surface for placing a child vehicle or an article; the power connection port is electrically connected to a driving motor of each of the mother vehicle running wheels.

2. The primary carrier of claim 1, wherein the carrier surface of the primary carrier is provided with a guide rail on which the secondary carrier can travel, and the primary carrier is provided with a push-pull mechanism for pushing or pulling the secondary carrier to the docking platform.

3. The handling parent car according to claim 2, wherein said push-pull mechanism comprises:

a push-pull motor arranged inside the vehicle body;

a push-pull guide fixed on the carrying platform surface of the carrying mother vehicle;

the flexible transmission part is driven by the push-pull motor and is configured to move back and forth between the inner side edge, close to the connection table, of the carrying mother vehicle and the outer side edge, far away from the connection table, of the carrying mother vehicle; and

and the push-pull hanging connecting piece is fixed on the flexible transmission piece.

4. The handling parent vehicle according to claim 3, wherein said flexible transmission is a chain, said push-pull guide is a pair of mutually parallel push-pull brackets with a chain driving wheel and a chain driven wheel arranged inside a guideway, two chains serving as said flexible transmission are respectively mounted on said push-pull brackets and configured to be movable in synchronization; the push-pull hanging piece is a cross rod fixed between the chains.

5. The handling cart of claim 4, wherein said wheel sets of said cart further comprise casters disposed below said cart body.

6. The carrying parent vehicle according to claim 4, further comprising a parent vehicle battery located inside the vehicle body, said parent vehicle battery being electrically connected to said push-pull motor.

7. The mother carrier according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the mother carrier is a flat cubic structure, and comprises 4 driving wheels at 4 corners of the carrier body and 4 universal wheels at the inner sides of the driving wheels, and each driving wheel is independently connected with a corresponding driving motor and a steering motor.

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