WO2004071901A1 - Conteneur de transport - Google Patents

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WO2004071901A1
WO2004071901A1 PCT/FI2004/050011 FI2004050011W WO2004071901A1 WO 2004071901 A1 WO2004071901 A1 WO 2004071901A1 FI 2004050011 W FI2004050011 W FI 2004050011W WO 2004071901 A1 WO2004071901 A1 WO 2004071901A1
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Veli-Pekka Immonen
Antti Vimpari
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Veli-Pekka Immonen
Antti Vimpari
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
    • B62D—MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS
    • B62D33/00—Superstructures for load-carrying vehicles
    • B62D33/04—Enclosed load compartments ; Frameworks for movable panels, tarpaulins or side curtains
    • B62D33/046—Enclosed load compartments ; Frameworks for movable panels, tarpaulins or side curtains built up with flat self-supporting panels; Fixed connections between panels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D88/00—Large containers
    • B65D88/02—Large containers rigid
    • B65D88/12—Large containers rigid specially adapted for transport
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D90/00—Component parts, details or accessories for large containers
    • B65D90/02—Wall construction
    • B65D90/028—Wall construction hollow-walled, e.g. double-walled with spacers

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  • the invention relates to a transport container as set forth in the preamble of claim 1, which defines a cargo space for a vehicle and at the same time constitutes a monocoque body.
  • the inventive container is intended to provide a cargo transport space for a wide variety of vehicles.
  • the inventive container may constitute a self-supporting trailer for a truck. It may also provide a shipping carriage for rail traffic, or even a cargo hold for an airplane.
  • Patent publication US-4,015,876 describes a container that constitutes a trailer for a truck, which has its walls and roof made of honeycomb boards attached to angle bars present in the corners of the container.
  • the floor is a traditional structure.
  • the honeycomb boards are joined to honeycomb cores by riveting and the internal honeycomb boards consist of separate narrow strips between the honeycomb cores.
  • the structure is inconvenient and expensive in terms of manufacturing technology.
  • Patent publications US-6,446,562 Bl and US-6,425,626 Bl disclose a container, having its walls and floor made of extrusion-produced board elements which are joined together. This structure is also expensive and awkward to set up and has its weak points in the form of joints between the board elements.
  • Patent application GB-2039256 A is a transport container's wall board structure, which forms a honeycomb panel.
  • the attachment of surface boards to honeycomb cores is effected by mechanical fasteners, such as screws or profile shapes, which is inconvenient in terms of manufacturing technology with no certainty of a sufficiently sturdy end result.
  • the honeycomb structure consists of extruded aluminium profiles.
  • Various honeycomb panel structures for trailer walls have also been described in Patent publications US-5,876,089 and EP-1174333.
  • Fig. 1 shows a side view of a container of the invention, which constitutes a self-supporting trailer for a truck,
  • Fig. 2 shows on a larger scale a partial section taken along a line II-II in a wall of the container shown in fig. 1,
  • Fig. 3 shows a section taken along a line III-III in fig. 1,
  • Fig. 4 shows a corner portion IV in fig. 3 on a larger scale
  • Fig. 5 shows a section taken along a line V-V in fig. 3.
  • a transport container 1 which constitutes a self-supporting trailer for a truck.
  • the container 1 visualized in fig. 1 has its forward end provided with coupling elements 14 for hitching the container 1 to a tractor vehicle 15.
  • the container 1 has its rear end mounted on an axle or axles 17 of wheels 16, or on a bogie with wheels bearing-mounted thereon.
  • the container's 1 honeycomb structure 11, 12, 13 provides a rigid monocoque body between the coupling elements 14 and the axle 17 or a bogie.
  • the inventive transport container defines a cargo space in a vehicle and constitutes at the same time a monocoque body.
  • the container's 1 walls 2, floor 3 and roof 4 are all made of honeycomb panels attached to side profiles 5, 6 present in the corners of the container.
  • Fig. 2 shows in more detail a honeycomb panel structure according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • Each honeycomb panel includes a first surface board 11, which has honeycomb-structure establishing honeycomb cores 13 attached thereto by a laser weld 7.
  • a second surface board 12 To the honeycomb cores 13 is attached, by another laser weld 8, a second surface board 12.
  • the honeycomb cores 13 are independent of each other and, thus, can be secured at a desired distance from each other.
  • the honeycomb cores 13 take the form of a V-shaped channel.
  • the inclined sides are topped with fastening flanges 13a secured by the laser welds 7 to the first surface board 11. Between the sides is a fastening rib 13b, the second surface board 12 being secured thereto by the laser weld 8. Between the surface boards' 11, 12 edges are secured, by another laser weld 9, the side profiles 5 or 6.
  • the side profiles 5 of square bar section are attached to the top and bottom edges of the wall panels 2 and the side profiles 6 of rectangular bar section are attached to the lateral edges of the wall and roof panels.
  • the honeycomb panels equipped with the side profiles 5 and 6 can be ultimately assembled for a tunnel-shaped container space by joining the side profiles 5 and 6 together, e.g. by traditional welding 10 (fig. 4).
  • the side profiles 5, 6 can be made in other shapes and provided e.g. with engagement profiles for joining them together.
  • the side profiles 5 and 6 be attached to the honeycomb panels 11, 12, 13, e.g. by the laser welds 9, as early as during the manufacturing process of honeycomb panels, whereby the honeycomb panels can be stored and shipped in a compact condition to be assembled only at the destination by joining the side profiles 5 and 6 together for an angle bar.
  • honeycomb cores 13 present in the container's floor 3 and/or roof 4 extend preferably in a direction transverse to the container's lengthwise direction, the walls 2 functioning as braces against bending loads acting in the vertical plane.
  • honeycomb panel 11, 12, 13 may constitute a roof or a wall in the shape of a shallow corrugation, comprising honeycomb cores 13 bent to a curvature complementary to the corrugation.
  • honeycomb cores 13 are typically vertical, but can also be lengthwise or the wall can be divided by one or more vertical cores, other honeycomb cores therebetween being lengthwise.
  • honeycomb cores 13 i.e. the distance between surface boards 11, 12, is typically 50-100 mm (more in the floor 3 than in the wall 2 and in the roof 4). Material thicknesses are typically within the range of 0,5-5 mm. A typical spacing between the honeycomb cores 13 is 50-200 mm.
  • honeycomb panels are made by laser welding, a lightweight and strong structure is obtained with relatively thin material thicknesses.
  • heat is focused on a small area and deformations are small.
  • the honeycomb cores can be in some other shape, e.g. a tubular or C-, Z- or U-profile.
  • the directions of profiles for the honeycomb cores or a continuous core can be transverse or lengthwise.
  • laser welding is technically most advantageous in this application, other welding methods can be used in the manufacture of a honeycomb panel. What is essential is that the floor structure 3 of a self-supporting body is made from the honeycomb panel 11, 12, 13, but the walls and/or the roof may optionally consist of boards of traditional materials.

Abstract

L'invention se rapporte à un conteneur de transport (1), qui définit un compartiment à marchandises pour véhicule et constitue simultanément un corps monocoque. Les parois du conteneur (2), le plancher (3) et le toit (4) sont composés de panneaux en nid d'abeilles (11, 12, 13), qui sont fixés à des cornières (5, 6) présentes dans les angles du conteneur. Chaque panneau en nid d'abeilles comprend une première planche de surface (11), qui présente une structure en nid d'abeilles définissant des âmes en nid d'abeilles (13) fixées à ladite planche par soudure laser (7), et une seconde planche de surface (12), qui est fixée au âmes en nid d'abeilles (13) par soudure laser (8). Ceci permet d'obtenir un conteneur autoporté plus léger que les conteneurs classiques, qui peut constitué, par exemple, sans aucune poutre de support, une semi-remorque de camion.
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WO2008028357A1 (fr) * 2006-08-28 2008-03-13 Yuancheng Wang Procédé de fabrication d'un conteneur
CN103171835A (zh) * 2011-12-23 2013-06-26 罗奇钢铁公司 运输集装箱及其底部
DE102010045430B4 (de) * 2010-09-15 2016-06-23 Schmitz Cargobull Ag Wechselaufbau für ein Nutzfahrzeug
EP3640124A1 (fr) * 2018-10-17 2020-04-22 AB Sjölund Construction Dispositif de stabilisation de panneaux de nid d'abeilles d'un compartiment de cargaison en forme de boîte

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US2086747A (en) * 1931-06-08 1937-07-13 Charles C Stetson Shipping container
US2400253A (en) * 1942-07-04 1946-05-14 Lufkin Foundry & Machine Compa Trailer
US2485047A (en) * 1947-02-17 1949-10-18 Woodall Industries Inc Vehicle body floor structure
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EP0193182A2 (fr) * 1985-02-26 1986-09-03 FAUN Umwelttechnik GmbH Véhicules à ordures
DE19527139A1 (de) * 1995-07-25 1997-04-03 Fraunhofer Ges Forschung Verfahren zur Herstellung von doppelwandigen Bauteilen, insbesondere für doppelwandige Behälter und mit diesem Verfahren hergestelltes Bauteil

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2008028357A1 (fr) * 2006-08-28 2008-03-13 Yuancheng Wang Procédé de fabrication d'un conteneur
DE102010045430B4 (de) * 2010-09-15 2016-06-23 Schmitz Cargobull Ag Wechselaufbau für ein Nutzfahrzeug
DE102010045430C5 (de) 2010-09-15 2018-10-31 Schmitz Cargobull Ag Wechselaufbau für ein Nutzfahrzeug
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EP3640124A1 (fr) * 2018-10-17 2020-04-22 AB Sjölund Construction Dispositif de stabilisation de panneaux de nid d'abeilles d'un compartiment de cargaison en forme de boîte

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