Railway cargo delivery system
OwnerKyung Ho Choung, Kyung Hee Leeinventors
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Abstract
A system to deliver a cargo using a railway, such as a subway or a national railway, rather than ground transportation. A cargo loading/unloading unit is provided on a platform of a railway station. The cargo loading/unloading unit is configured to load and unload cargoes is provided inside a railway vehicle, such that a large quantity of cargo can be quickly loaded and unloaded while the railway vehicle is stopped at the station. The cargo delivery capacity can also be adjusted, thereby enabling a large quantity of the cargo to be delivered more quickly and conveniently.
Claims5
A railway cargo delivery system to deliver a cargo to a railway station using a railway, the system comprising:
- a cargo load/unload unit installed at one side of a platform of the railway station and configured to load and unload the cargo on and from a railway car;
- a load/unload control unit to control operation of the cargo load/unload unit;
- a cargo stacking unit installed at one side in the railway car to receive and stack the cargo loaded by the cargo load/unload unit, and supply the stacked cargo to the cargo load/unload unit so that the stacked cargo is unloadable by the cargo load/unload unit;
- a stacking control unit to control operation of the cargo stacking unit;
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- wherein the cargo load/unload unit is configured to dock to the cargo stacking unit, and wherein the load/unload control unit is configured to operate the cargo load/unload unit to dock to the cargo stacking unit in response to the railway car's complete arrival at the platform;
- wherein the cargo load/unload unit comprises:
- a cargo load module to transfer a plurality of cargos from the platform of the railway station and simultaneously supply the plurality of cargos from the platform of the railway station to the cargo stacking unit;
- a cargo unload module to simultaneously receive and transfer a plurality of cargos from the cargo stacking unit to the platform of the railway station;
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- wherein operation of the cargo load module and the cargo unload module are controlled to simultaneously dock and operate on the cargo stacking unit;
- wherein the cargo stacking unit comprises:
- a load stacking module to receive the plurality of cargos transferred and supplied from the cargo load module;
- an unload stacking module arranged in an upper part of the load stacking module to stack the plurality of cargos to be supplied to the cargo unload module;
- an intermediate stacking module arranged between the load stacking module and the unload stacking module to stack the plurality of cargos;
- a stack transfer module to sequentially transfer the plurality of cargos supplied to the load stacking module to the intermediate stacking module and the unload stacking module for delivery;
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- an unload supply module to transfer and supply the plurality of cargos stacked on the unload stacking module to the cargo unload module;
- wherein the stacking control unit is configured to control the operation of the stack transfer module to transfer cargos having a delivery-arrive point set to an arriving railway station of the railway car from the intermediate stacking module to the unload stacking module;
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- wherein each of the load stacking module, the unload stacking module and the intermediate stacking module comprises a plurality of cargo stacking plates for stacking cargos, the plurality of cargo stacking plates are configured to continuously circulate along a circulation path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.